LATE SPORTING.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1190, 21 December 1894, Page 20

LATE SPORTING.

ANTICIPATIONS. By “Gipsv King.’’

In giving my impressions for .the Boxing Day meetings, and others, I am placed at some disadvantage, as a number of horses are engaged in several events, and of course will not compete in all races they have accepted for, so that in many- cases l wiil have to mention more than one-horse as likely to furnish the winner. However, I will have a final word in Monday’s New ’ Zealand Times. The following meetings and the events are mentioned. in their - order, as advertised " December 21, Manaia.—Hurdles, Thunderbolt; Handicap, Pyroxlyn; Maiden Plate, Secrecy or Vagrant;. Electric, Jacobite ; Flying, Vagrant. '■■■'.. l ;. / December 26, Auckland.—Foal: Stakes, Bloodshot; Cup, Prime Warden or Impulse; Hurdles, Ebor; Christmas Handicap, Saracen • Nursery, Hazelmere U Steeple- v chase (third day), Bombardier or Booties. December 26, Manawatu. -—(Telegraph Stakes, Revolution or Cretonne; First Hurdles, Osman; Palmerston Cup* Rosefeldt; Hack Hurdles, Auroa; First Hack Flat, Pihanga or Hotspur; Grandstand, Princess May, or Kalmea. Ladies’Brace- < let, Kahurangi :,/ '//?.>/: aDecember 26, Masterton-Opakk -—Hack Hurdles, Oddfellow; Waipipi Handicap, Pointsettia; Maiden, Field Gun; Opaki ' Stakes, Violence; Hack Race, one mile and a quarter, Fresh Deal ; Telegraph Stakes, King’s Bowman; Flying Hack Handicap, Princess Cole or Dinah Shad; Hack Scurry, Caloola 11.

December 26, Hawke’s Bay (acceptances, not to hand). —Welter, Lady Hamilton,; Hurdles, Tiritea; Summer Handicap, Planet or Blarney ; Two-year-old Handicap, Woodlander; Christmas Handicap, Searchlight. December 26, Lower Valley.—Hunters’ " ' Hurdles, Makomako ;• ■ Hack Hurdles, The ; ;v Bird; Maiden, Guardsman ; Martin Meiiiorial Handicap, Sedition ; Hack Handicap, one mile and a quarter, Springtime or Bouquet; Lower Valley Handicap, Von Tempskey; Hack Handicap, one - mile, Bouquet or Merryman. ~ ; ' MANAWATU SUMMER MEETING.' ■ By Telegraph.—Press Association. v Palmerston Nortec, December 18/ >-• . The following acceptances have been received for the Manawatu Summer Meet-- v ing:— "‘ ' Telegraph Stakes.— Revolution, Cretonne, Kent, Kalmea, Irish Twist, Maga--zine, King John and Stranger, - v ; . Hurdle Handicap. Kapiia, Revolt, Oaklands, Osman, Rangiwai, Strike and Sunbeam. / ‘ Palmerston Cup. —Au Revoir, Rosefeldfc, / Musket, Senator, Revolution, Princess May - and Irish Twist. /" , Grand Stand Handicap. Variety, Kent, Kalmea, Princess May, Revolt; King / John, Stranger and Bonovoree. A *

Krina has been scratched for the Wellington Cup. A resident of Wellington, ter race, who drew Premier, the third horse in the Queensland Cup, received word by yesterday’s mail that the sweep ■ had fully filled, and that he had won <£1125 net. The investor held four five-shilling tickets, and the last of the four proved to be the lucky number. 1 The prize is shared by ~ two people. / • •