EPSOM SPRING. April 27th.

Otago Witness, Issue 1540, 14 May 1881, Page 20

EPSOM SPRING. April 27th.

'. - iTHE CITY AND. SUBURBAN HANDICAP, >• -' Of SiOOlsovs, added to. a sweepstake of 16 soys. On< -' - .>i mile "and a quarter. .Eighty-seyen nominations. Westminster's ch hßend.Or, byDoncaster - ' - -.>r-^Bbuge,Ro&e, 4 yrs, 95t . . . , ; -'•„„-•• ] ;"."Mr^ b^" Foxhall, by. King Alfonso- - 'M^y^^GraCm'sbr h Post .Obit, by SterUng- " Premftture) 4"yrSi 7st ' . '•'..' '-„;• J , - •'• • This rac^ is' one of the Spring.vhandicapi: " : over wbioK'tttereis always, such.' an enprmout iawount ofJrrfSdulation, '. PetroieL PJter, M and Bend Or were tL'fl ruling ,fav 4 uritesr,for some ". .weeks, but on.Mart^2sth tho HettM was :,: ,' jollowßS-li.to, 1 agiinßt -Band Or, F,ot>-, •<- .r Preßtonpans,, a D d ;Petroi^ Jl6it 1 Pe*ff ■ tff ;' Ambassadresß"; 20 to 1 F*/«»^«b ; > «/ So 4ti ■J' ,wlnner of -last year's •Be Ay wtr^b - «?#>s■>; xPa.laca Stakes.; ,alsq,sß rntmiag o%]U»bd »ci •^Robert the. Devil'a~-S6. Leg«r, aeoot"l.to Ibo '' same horse in the Givat iof 1 St'ike^ i\a« iS*p •'•'I :to him inttheOhaiLi.i^Biak'ie. Bob2iJ,^ti»e Devil was 'not in -the City,-'and Suburban, fIV rn the meeting of the pair, would have been in N '.r-te'resting. ■ No four-year-old carryjng"so" great .; alweight as 9it has ever before won -this race. .; Foxhall won for „ his .American owner last year the' Newmarket Bedford Stakes, of 175 boys ; ran second to Savoyard in the Ashley : Stakes, :of; : 22s>jovsjuand won the Bretly -% Nursery Handicap, t/of ,292 boy». He iafnot centered ia. any < of ; the: great weight-forage races, but has, several good engagements. Post Obit ran third j as in the Liverpool Handicap mentioned above.