SPORTING.
THE NORTH NEW ZEALAND GRAND
NATIONAL MEETING. A fair amount of business is being transacted on the Grand National Hurdle Race and Great Northern Steeplechase. There is really no decided favourite in either event. *<* tho Hurdle Race, Drum-Major, Torpid Black Dust, Social Pest, and Cuckoo are all strongly fancied, and for the Steeplechase Dummy and Dentist aro the pair most in favour. Amongst the noteworthy l< nCs booked arc 1000 to 20 Torpina oral Dummy, 1000 to 20 Social Pest and Dummy, 1000 '« 12i Korowai and Dummy. 100 to 3is offered on the field. . Mr. J. Rc-ulston, (he owner of Record Reign, issues a note of warning to admire ft<» his horse, to the effect that they » _ better await the acceptance before bar* » the son of Castor. -Mr. Roubton is of WW that his horse, being a maiden > uHU harshly treated in being required to caw list 91b. , ~„„ Kanaka, having developed a leg, the »« ■' Messrs. McLeod and Cleland, yesterday »iw him out of all his engagements at tho A.i • • and Takapuna meetings. , ~ ,u Blackberry was yesterday scratched tor" Great Northern Steeplechase.
A VALUABLE RACEHORSE KILLED. [BY TEIEGRAPII.-PBESS ASSOCIATION Sahib, Monday. Mr. R. H. Skipwith's racehorse, St. &»° , fell while being exercised over the huril Napier Park on Saturday, breaking ft" » Sweeney, his rider, received a very shaking, but no bones were broken.
THE JUBILEE STAKES. London, May KAt the Kompton Park Mooting, the folfling was the result of the principal e»en>", THE GREAT JUBILEE STAKES, ajjg cap of 1500sov S> added to a ffttP»j. of 30sovs Bach. The owner of WJ. ot horse to receive ZOOsovs, and the o»« s the third lOOsovs out of tho * t3K ,: ile gj three-year-olds and upwards. One " ~ Mr. L. Neumann's br m Sirenia, sy«, W. j. | Gallinulc—Concussion, 8s 61b ••• ~ " : ■• _y Mr. J. H. Peard's ch o Merry IWJp -2;. ♦yrs, by Hampton-Heresy,. "st ""J f; , ; v Mr. J. A. Drake's oh h Royal Flush, aged, j . , by Favo-Flush, 6st 1111) ... - '" ,-; | AUCKLAND COURSING CLUB'S ... | MEETING. „«{liiS'V . The above club open their May o" .|| to-morrow at Avondale. Tho dogs are'.,. ~-, in tho slips at half-past one. •"■■-■: ',>,,'
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 11372, 15 May 1900, Page 6
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350SPORTING. New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 11372, 15 May 1900, Page 6
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