Sporting.

Opunake Times, Volume IV, Issue 181, 27 March 1896, Page 3

Sporting.

NAPIER PARK RACING CLUB. The weather was dull and threatening for the opening day of the Napier Park Racing Club’s Autumn Meeting. There was a large attendance. Following are the results : Trial Handicap Hurdle Race, of 50 sovs ; one mile and three-quarters. Zaccho, 12st 81b ... 1 Canard, 9st 181 b ... 2 Blackberry, 9st 121 b ... 1 Won comfortably. Dividend, £4 18s. Sapling Stakes Handicap, of 100 sovs ; five furlongs. Bijou, 7sfc 1 Forest Rose, 7st 61b ... 2 Daring, 7st 21b ... .... 3 Won with a bit in hand. Time, Imin 6 2-sth sec. Dividend, £B. Napier Cup Handicap, of 800 sovs ; one mile and a half. Sprindrift, Bst Sib ... 1 Aio, 7st 21b 2 Saracen, Bst 101 b ... 3 Handidap Hurdles, of 100 sovs ; two miles. Tiritea, list 1 Tally-Ho, 9st 2 Liberator, 12sfc 121 b ... 3 Ten ran. Won on the post. Time, Bmin 54 4-sth sec. Dividend, £1 7s. Redclyffe Stakes, of 50 sovs; one mile. Paddy O’Eourte, 6st 71b 1 Mysterious, 7sllllb ... 2 Glenfeldt, 7st 11b ... 3 Eleven started. Won by three lengths. Time, Imin 87 l-sth sec. Dividend. £36 15s. Flying Handicap, of 100 sovs ; six furlongs. Stepfeldt, 7st 101 b ... 1 Searchlight, Bst 21b ... 2 Dauntless, 6st 121 b ... 8 Six ran. Won easily. Time, Imin 17 8-sth sec. Dividend, £5 Bs. Welter Handicap, of 50 sovs; one mile and a quarter. Lotion, list 1 Triton, 9st 71b 2 Freelance, Bst 8

SECOND DAY. Second Teial Huedle Race, of 50 sovs ; H miles. Blackberry, lOst 21b ... 1 Kauri Gum, lOst 61b ... 2 Waterlily, 105 t... ... 3 Won by six lengths. Dividend, £4 7s. High Weight Handicap, of 50 eovs ; once round. Three Star ... ... 1 Free Lance 2 Lotion ... ... ... s Won by a length. Dividend, £4 2s. Cm Stakes Handicap, of 200 sovs; one mile and a quarter. Acone, 7st 121 b 1 Searchlight, Bst 91b ... 2 North Atlantic, 9st 81b 3 Won hard held by three-quarters of a leugth. Time, 2min 21 3-sth sec. Dividend, £4 Bs. Two-Yeak-Old Handicap, of 75 sovs ; six furlongs. St. Elmo, 7st 111 b ... 1 Defiance, 9st 81b ... 2 Forest Rose, 7st 1 lib ... 1 Four ran. Won easily'. Time, Imin 24 £sec. Dividend, £3 12s, Second Handicap Huedles, of 100 sovs ; one mile and three-quarter. Dante, list 121 b ... 1 Liberator, 12st 91b ... 2 Donald McKinnon ... t Tally-Ho, 9st 111 b ... | Nine ran. Won by a neck. Time, 3min‘B9sec. Dividend, £lB 11s. Hubby Scuery Handicap, of 50 sovs. Seven furlongs. Gold Cup, Bst 31b ... 1 Martyrdom, 9st 111 b ... 2 Maid Marion, 7st ... 8 Seven ran. Won by a long neck. Time, Imin 35 2-oth sec. Dividend, £3 4s. Waveeley Stakes, of 100 sovs. Six furlongs. Acone, Bst 1 Heavenly Twin, 6st 91b... 2 King’s Bowman, Bst 121 b 3 Six ran. Won by half a length. Time, Imin 21 2-sth sec. Dividend £2. WAIRARAPA RACING CLUB. Wellington, March 23. At a special meeting of the stewards of the Wairarapa Racing Club it was •resolved to hold a two days’ meeting at Tauherenikau at Easter without the totalisator, giving £I2OO in stakes and using the same programme as previously arranged, with a reduction of stakes on account of refusal to grant the totalisator. It was also decided to recommend that the Gaming and Lotteries Act be amended so that the totalisator permits be granted at the beginning of each racing year, and that a non-political board be set up appointed by the whole of the licensed racing clubs in the colony to advise the Government as to which clubs are entitled to totalisator permits for the season, and only such clubs to be allowed the permit.