SPOUTING NOTES. RACING FIXTURES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 3083, 25 March 1892, Page 2

SPOUTING NOTES.

RACING FIXTURES.

-*"- ""* rairsxAUßD. ; March 23— Man»w»tu Bating Chtb March 23, 84— Bnnediit Joeker Clnb March 31, April I— TanuaU Jockey Clah April 13— Foxton Baointr Club April 16, 18-Feildlng Jockey Club CTbdobitt.] Acceptances for the following evehtf, in connection with the TaranaM Anniyer> ' sary Bace Meeting-, are due on Saturday, S6tn March :-TJ.C. Handicap (Btors.) ; Welter Handicap (1 sow) ;. Plying Handicap (2 aovs.) ; Ladies' Bracelet, First Hack Hurdles, and First Hack Flat Bace (1 sqv. each). The Taranaki Anniversary Meeting eventuates on Thursday and Friday next, and promises to be a successful one. The handicap for the bigymoney is a fairly good one, and I Sink that the topweights, Cynisca, Boulanger, and Whi*per, 'should they elect to put in an appearance, will have much to say g£P'tihe finish. Scot Free incurs a7lb.|nalty for winning the Napier Cup, aoif Mr. Paul's horse should hold him pretty safe after the running in that nee. Loch Ness has 21b. less than he carried into third place in the Hawked Bay Jockey Club Cup, and must be looked upon as likely to furnish the winner. The Oeo Bacing dub hat received very good nominations for the hack meeting to be held on 6th April. The class is Tip to the average, and the presence of several well known performers will no doubt help to make tbe meeting a successful one. Acceptances are due on Tuesday next, and if the handicapper succeeds in satisfying owners in the adjustment of the weights, there ought to be good fields. Perhaps it is open to objection that the gentleman who has been selected to fix the weights should be the owner of racehorses.

The Hawke's Bay Jockey Club had a very successful meeting, notwithstanding the unfavorable state of the weather. The race for the Cop was thought to be at Retina's mercy until the port was nearly reached, when Crown Jewel shot into view from the rack and won by half a length. The Manaia horse, Torpedo, made his effort at the turn, but soon died away. The Auckland colt Morion was about last, and Cr^okshot was never, dangerous. Mr. Ormond's Thame fell in the race. However, she started the next day in the Burke Memorial Stakes, and ran pretty prominently until the home turn, so^ that she could not have been badly injured. Pani also came down in the Cup race. A Napier writer says:—"Surprise was expressed at sucba big dividend being paid by the "Wanganui Cup winner, but if the machine had got all the money received by the books the dividend would have been a great deal smaller." .So it seems that the laying of totalisator odds by bookmakers is pretty prevalent ad| most of the New Zealand racecoursd^ Whakawatea won the Eailwayand Jure* rnle Stakes, the latter with 9si 181b. up, pretty easily, in a tick over lm. 18s. Mr. Hungerf ord owns a speedy youngster in the son of Apremont-secky Sharp. A | few good dividends were paid. £20 on .Nemoralisin the Trial on the first day. and £15 on Whalebone on the second day m the Hurdles. In both oases, strange to^ say (says "Buff and Black"), the trainers, didn't have even one ticket ln 9 rl The stako *** orij worth £25 in the Trial, and the machine paid out £20. Thefirstdaywaswefiyef £6704 was put through the machine, and *%&*£s* JSS?** day. making a total of £12,612. This amount is £2269 over last yeto, but it would have been cdasjdefagg, more had not rain set in-Befoxe l&£Egace on the second day, aaclaf * conseMßice £2 only was investaLonone* machffiiFand £99 on the other; * t A * . the meeting was the^tart. iag of Mr. Powell, who came in for slot of praise in connection therewith. Thm is what " Buff and- Black" says in ihi Telecrapli.^-''Thestartingof Sam Powell at Hastings was decidedly a feature^ tlie meeting, and everyone watched atibe melder of the flag with evident pleasW lie was- the recipient of applsuse on many occasions when he despatched his large fields in a line, all the horses moving off like aline of cavalry. Powell oan't be beat. He informs me he is only going to start for. the Canterbury J.C. Jor one meeting. The terms are not satisfactory, and he desires to consult the Wanganui, Wellington, Hawke's Bay Jockey, and Napier Tark Clubs, before he finally accepts starting at Christchurch for good. He will have to be well paid by the Canterbury Metropolitan Club, because he will be obliged to discontinue starting at, a great manjr small country meetings . where he is fairly well paid, inasmuoh as J some of these meetings clash occasionally ' with the bigger ones, Powell is the best' starter in New 1 Zealand, and it would be worth ttie while of all the Metropolitan Clubs giving him a good salary in order to secure his valuable services, for there is nothing that annoys the public or disgusts, horse owners so much as bad starting. Confidence in a starter is a great thing, and it is very seldom that we drop j 5? POS ?, 5 man wno i 8i 8 *» 'competent as Powell."