HUTT PARK RACES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume IX, Issue 1656, 22 June 1887, Page 2

HUTT PARK RACES.

HURDLE HANDICAP. Maminga, list 31b 1 Surrey, lOst 21b 2 The Jilt, lOst 81b ... *.. ... 3 LOWER HUTT HANDICAP. Strenuous, 9st Gib 1 Smooth, 78t 21b 2 Fabrication, 7st 41b 3 JUBILEE HANDICAP. Fabrication, Gst 131b 1 Strenuous, 9dt 41b 2 Kangaroo, Bst 21b 3 Kalo, who won tbe Shorts Handicap at Auckland a few years ago, paying a

div. of some hundreds,* was the 'other day sold by auction for £12. f r t^ Abercorn is favorite for the V.R.O. Derby at 4to 1. ,<• " i- ; - Two racehorses named Home Bale and Coercion ran first and second in an event at the recent meeting of the Sydney Turf Club. . i The starter of the Sydney Turf Club is very severe on jockeys. In one race •lone at the club's last meeting the fines amounted to £65. Silence is beintj enquired after in Dunedin for the Now Zealand Cup at 100 to 4. Mr. Drake's Half Guinea, a yearling, promises to develop into a good animal. The Shah, who is still owned by Mr. Saunders, is to bo given a long spell. The Referee says that tbe betting over the New Zealand Cup is beginning to liven up a bit, and probably when the weights for the Melbourne Cup make their appearance (which will be four days before the New Zealand Cup handicap will be issued) some important transactions will no doubt have to be chronicled, as a good many backers are holding off until they become cognisant of the weights allotted by the V.R.C. bandicapper to those horses that are engaged in the Melbourne and New Zealand Cups. It was expected by a good many people that Maxim's, name would be found in tbe Melbourne Cup entry list, but such was not the case, and he was at once rushed into tbe position of first favorite for the N.Z. Cup, and 100 to 6 is now the best offer against him. His stable-companion, Lochiel, bad previously been supported at 100 to 5, and is firm at that quotation. Sextant is backed at that figure. So is Silver Prince, but the Hon W. Robinson's other representatives are left alone, and so are Mr. Drake's loc. Silvermark and Gipsy King have each been nibbled at at ICO to 4, and Nelson finds an occasional backer at 100 to 3.