COURSING.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11642, 2 May 1901, Page 6

COURSING.

•BY TELEGRAPH.— PRESS ASSOCIATION'.] O.ui.utr, Wednesday. The coursing season was opened at the North Otago Plumpton to-day, when 60 dogs competed for the Challenge Stakes. The day was fine, and the coursing was good, although tho hares suffered a considerable diminution m numbers. The following were the results : —

Challenge Slakes: .First dog, £100; runner-up, £60; two dog- a , £9 each; four clogs, £6 each; eight dog,;, £3 each. Bullod's St. Conan beat Smith's Mabs, Dalgleish's Hero again beat Lees' WildfiirGardiner's Ponsonby beat Williams' Flo' Bulled's Secrecy beat Myers' Shy Lizzie Barry's May Queen boat fringle's Chieftainess, Glonnio's Khaki Lass beat Wise's Pedosohda, Christie's Multiform beat Myers' Field Rose, Lees' Botherm beat Letkaby's Faster Yet, Weedon's Rakana beat Dalgleiah's F'jntlock, Smith's Renown beat Weedon's Kowena, Fitzsimmons' Persimmon beat Bulled s Dingo, LapdeH's Princess May beat Christie's Starshot, Little's Holly beat Weary s Emperor, Buttemore's Hector MacDonald beat French's Philistine, Cameron's m IS "iT ■£i IM beat Woods' Clean Sweep, Black s Pibroch a bye (Glew's St. Clements being drawn), Leslie's Tommy Atkins beat Wise Charming May, Kennedy's Mafekin<» a bye, Smart and Hastie's Mattie Collet beat Chelan Spieler, Harris' Black Boy beat I rice Blue Gown, Lees' Mizpah beat Whelans Smoke, Glow's Lord Roberts beat Howson a Wild lower, MoAuliff's Bonnie. Shamrock beat Black's Wild Harp, Buttemore's w y,,« »eat Smith's Lady, Wise's Synditikon beat Rodger*' Smoker, Taylor's Austral beat Lisdale's Nenthorn 11., Wise's Shamrock beat Barry's Oedrio, Cleary's Advance beat Harrax's Hawkdun, Buttemore's Black Iracker beat Pringle's Duntroon, Jenkins Lads beat Woods' Prima Donna, only the first round was completed The coursing will be resumed to-morrow at midday.