TROTTING.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1289, 12 November 1896, Page 27

TROTTING.

WELLINGTON TROTTING CLUB. The fallowing are the nominations for the above Club'a meeting to be hold on the 24th Maiden Handicap (saddle), two miles.— "Whisper, Walter J., Miss Cann, Oakwood Abdallah, Violet, Judge Bedford, Meet Her, Comet, Moonbeam. Pony Handicap Harness, two miles.— Silver Grey, Country Girl, Eric, Trio, Darky, Sapoline, Faugh-a-ballagh, liewi, Kaven, Jasper. Wellington Trotting Club Handicap (saddle), two miles.—Highaeld, Wahmepai, Arg3'le, Pukowhai, Nellie, The Frog, Miss Cann, Maud V., Gazelle, Little Hero, Jersey, Oakwood |Abdallah, Mermaid, Whisky. K. Jam, Vermont, Judge Bedford, Sailor Boy, Tussock, Comet, J.H. Handicap Selling Trot (saddle), two miles.—Countess 11., Highfield, Flossie, Silver Grey, Whisper, Ethel, Romeo, Cyclone, Darky, Bill Allen, Violet, Deceiver, Thomas, Rover. Exhibition Handicap, two milos. Waihinepai, Kentucky vVilks, Eric, Sailor Boy, Fragment, Deceiver, Whisky. Pont Handicap (saddle), two miles.— Trilby, Silver Grey, County Girl, Eric, Trio, Beauty, Ethel, Selim, Faugh-a-ballagh, Rewi, Sailor Boy, Raven, Thomas, Jasper. Electric Handicap, one mile.—Highfield, Khandallah, Flossie, Wahinepai, Argyle, Pukowhai, Little Ben, Charlie, Nellie, Miss Cann, Kentucky Wilks, Maud V., Gazelle, St. James, Jersey, Cyclone, Whisky, Lo Corbeau, August, Judge Bedford, Sailor Boy, Tussock, Comet, Rover, Moonbeam J.H. Dash Handicap, one mile.—Litttle Ben, Kentucky Wilks, Jersey .Whisky, Le Corbeau, August, Fragment. . Additions may yet be made to the above

list, some nominations, believed to be lying at the Post Office, being unobtainable on Saturday night. LANCASTER PARK TROTTING CLUB. Christchurch, Novomber 10. There was a good attendance on the opening day of the Lancaster Park Amateur Trotting Club's Spring Meeting, and the sum of <£6775 passed through the totaliaator —the largest amount ever handled in one day at a trotting meeting in the Colony. The following are the results :

Maiden Saddle, of 30 sovs; two miles, — Venus, 1 ; Victriz, 2. Seven others started. Time, smin 39sec. Dividend, £i. Pont Harness, of 30 sovs ; two miles. — Dorothy, ser, 1 ; Sambo, 15sec, 2. Four others started. Time, smin 40sec. Dividend, £3 19s.

Spring Handicap (saddle), of 80 sovs ; two miles.—Redmire, 13sec, 1; Economy, 9sec, 2; Tikaro, 4sec, 3. Four others started. Won by forty yards. Time, smm 17£sec. Dividend, .£l3 18s. Selling Handicap (harness), of 30 sovs ; two miles.—Energy, I3sec. 1 ; Ladybird 11., IGsec, 2 ; Baker's Maid, 20sec,;3. Six others started.' Time, 6min I2sec. Dividend, .£l7. Lancaster Park Handicap (harness), or 100 sovs.—Sam Slick, 24sec, 1 ; Dexterina, 18sec, 2 ; Kentucky Wilkes, 15sec, 3. Hampton, 24sec ; and Ascot, 2isec, also started. Dexterina won an exciting race by half a length. Time, smin Usee. A protest for boring and galloping being entered, the stewards decided to run the race over again, -when Sam Slick won by a length. Time, smin ISsec. Dividend, £4 2s. Progressive Handicap (saddle), of 75 sovs. —Sans Souci, 20sec, 1; Mascotte, Bsec, 2. Eleven others started. Time, smin 35sec. Dividend, £lO 3s. Dash (harness), of 55 sovs ; one mile. — Stonewall Jackson, 1 sec, 1 ; Pansy B, Ssec, 2 ; Kentucky Maud, Msec, 3. Five others started. Time, 2min 32|sec. Dividend, .£32 4s.

Electric Handicap (saddle), of 50 sov3 ; one mile.—Kentucky Wilkes, Gsec, 1 ; Stonewall Jackson, lsec behind, 2 ; Mascotte, 13sec, 3. Nine others started. Won by a length. Time, 2min 3Ssee. Dividend, .£2O Is.