V.A.C.T. SPRING MEETING.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XVII, Issue 2955, 19 October 1891, Page 2

V.A.C.T. SPRING MEETING.

(FEB PBESS ASSOCIATION.) MELBOURNE, Ootober 17. I The weather for the closing day of the i V.R.T.O. meeting was overoaat and threatening, but no rain fell. The attenw&b enormous. The following are the results : — Maiden Plate, of 200 soys ; 1 mile. Jfl Villiers (McGowan) f * i Sternohaßer (White) t Havilah 8 Eight started. Betting— 7 to 4 on Sternohaser. Villiers looked all over a winner at the distance, but Sternohaser came with a late run, and, finishing gamely, made a dead heat of it. In the

* J colt, but \ ilUera . won by a head. Time, J ' b k 6r B B'mth^T.B.O; Derby. Hia pplendid proportions being greatly admired, and it ■ r-wa^tiotbirig bnt want of conditwu that „ . failed tot get him borne in' the run off. NfrHSES* Handicap, of 200 soys. Moonray (Huxley) «. • • ••• ••' 1 Eiffhteen started. Won by a head. »• 5 Qumiv Race, of ,2OO 2 eo^s ; '6 forloiogs. ■ Thejlioon (Oollina)^ .'» '■>■'•'•» - ■••• .*■ 1 ' " Won by alength:and half. Time, lmm, Sfl9 ' OATJLFXBiDqUP' . bl'Booo aovj; 2000 of the -sitd-fium to go to the owner of the firat horaei^OOsovs to tb^ owner of second horse,' and' BQoso'ys' to the owner of the third. One mile and a half. • : . Mr. G. Wooafordp's .eh h G'Naroo^ syra; is ;St.' 7al r * ... J3lba (Morrison) 1 :.« . ■•» '..,*••.; 1 ' Mr. 5. H. Upjobn'B br o Forest King, 4yrs, by First King-rTbe Boe, 7sk '. / ' ieibatMfGowan) .«.- ... ••• 3 Mr. J. G'Eoaghlah'B.ins .ch,h Olonard, .' ' -Byrff, 'by TJe'wminßter^-Queen of tbd inglerai «6fr Bb (mclnding 7)b , * * Tw^Bntyifiv^o#itatted. Bettmg- - .^2 t'o'i^Btfnfeebah, W'G'Naroo. Agood start waß Hgmmp^ting bnng the r 'f fifßt r td f BhW3^ s 'froiit- G'Naroq qftme.out •atthedißlan^poßt, and it warapparent • ■• >tbak«llmidVtß6 field safe, arid; shaking -» i kept him tD « a neck Be P ira "°e v .'afeoond and third; Bungebah waa tenth, having being inter^erxed with in ,tne ' r fitfafghy- : Time,2m'inß6jeo,. . kJ . ■.' ' (feBJST SifeBPI^OHASE j Of ßoo BOVB. - . 'VWWlii'lbßt 101b (Underwood) ... 1 ...cGlareiilOat(Grifferi)' ..., J BeWgarboy, list 91b ..." ... ••• » : Eleven started. Won by a length. Wnriteok H^DioAP, oi 250 bovb; six ■ r ;• ' . furlongs. Sainfoin, 7sfc 81b (O'Neil) ... ' - J Steeltrap, 7at7lb • ... J Stone Defiign, 6at 101b... .» ••• .» •Seventeen, faced ,the flag, won by six lenths. ..Time, lmin 16£ see. MELBOURNE, October 18. ! Owing to preairice of !' welahers " m. the paddoofe 'aVthe Oaolfield raoeß yeflter- - day, large. nambera of backers of wmnrng .horses were left lamenting. . The, ring waa heavily, struck over "G'lTaroo'B'viotory in, the Gap; beflidea whioh he ia coupled with almost everything which is thought to have a show in a .the Melbourne Gup. „ ■' '<*' ■ ' ' «■*■— ■— — — — —

»' -Mr. -D. Knight's Weka ana Hermit, fromMa-naia, andiMr.J. George's Melas and Maroro, from 1 New Plymoutb, were trained |to Wanganui to-day, at which • place they wiiropn^ipete in the fortnooming 'rabesl /."-}', ' The rain EltbaroLwayi.and in the bash generally we expect, on Sunday was much heavier than' at Hawera and on the Plainß, where the fall was about half an .fjnch".- It waft estimated atßltham thttfe t the lain was the heaviest for a oonple of years past. ' :-l " «;The Manaift Hack Baoing Olub have rittued an excellent programme for their 'meeting on Boxing Day. The olub is in a good position financially, and this year • have increased the stakes to SiSQ-^-Don- >' sider&bly mote than last year/ The ■is wgalatioDß in respect to horses entered miSfcnsthejFarmerß' Plato have been altered ' so ac to - a., admit of horaes oompetiDg which are.entered, fo^ other similar raoes in the diafrib). money for the Manaia 1 'Handicap'liaß "been idoreased to £SJ, and n■• Jhe entties'for this event are expected to' be numerons. The stakes also in the Farmer*' Plate, Maiden Plate, Tally-Ho and-iOflPßolatioft-HaadTcap have been inoreftsVa^,Thi£s&«^the Maori Eaw^has been'deteted from the programme and the : Electric Stakes substituted in place of< it „ .with , a, enbatantial addition to the fltakeo. ' The,races v will oqiqepfi on Mr. W. Hair s cpnrse. oldse to. l mfin'aia.* . ; We would remind our readers that Mr* A. Atkinson, of Wellington, dentiat. ' 'wHl'be. in Btovjrer'a.on the 20th mat., and '•'•" ynil frdm that date attend at the shop of '•"Mr '•Tait ) Kl otemißt > Higb-atreet. Mr. 'XtK^'aon *as the moat promising pnpil , of'Mr, Bawaop, of Wellinetpn. We Wderatand he paaaed bia examination ' ,bnlflantlj and baa . already attained a reputation in bia prof eesion. He a son -pf fcbe,f oymer mbmber for Egmont. If i' snffiqlent support for a local man ie • lorthcoming, we underßtaad, Mr. Atkm* soil may take up hia residence permanently among üb. We wish him every stioceaß. ;..:.• \ '.' , , Mr. Newton ?ing Bella stock at Strafe- ' ford to-morrow. • ' >„■ Mr. J. Brunette itaa'a new adTertiflement in this iaaue. Mr. Major'a property ust appeara ma revised form in thiß iasue and ahonld be read.."/' '