NAPIER RACES.
♦ ■ ■ HAWKE'S BAY' RACING CLUB. [From our Special Correspondent.]
NAPIER.
This Day. The inaugural meeting of the Hawke's Bay Racing Club came off to-day. A large concourse of persons assembled on the Pakowhai race course to witness the performances of the horses entered for the several events. The trains from Waipukurau and Waipawa were crowded each trip. The day was wonderfully fine, and, as, a whole, the events were well and spiritedly contested.
GRAND HANDICAP HURDLE RXCE,of 100 soy. Distance 2£ miles, over 7 hurdles, 3ft. 6in high Grey Momus 1 Tawera 2 Wanganui 3 INAUGURATION STAKES, of 40 soys. Distance, J mile, weight for age. Never Miss 1 West End ... 2 HAWKE'S BAY CUP (Handicap) of 250 soys., with a sweepstake of 5 soys. added for starters. Second horse to receive 30 soys. out of the stakes. Distance, 2 miles. Sinking Fund 1 Little Wonder 2 Lara 3 [The above were received by us at 3.35, being conveyed from the course by means of carrier pigeons to Napier, and thence immediately telegraphed to us.]
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 652, 17 March 1879, Page 2
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