KAWKESBURY SPRING MEETING.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XVI, Issue 5570, 16 September 1889, Page 3

KAWKESBURY SPRING MEETING.

Sydney, Sept. 12. hurdle race ; 2 miles. Drilldool 1 Willoughby 2 Albert 3 —Out of sixteen horses starting, five foil. A grand race. Won by a length. Time, 3mins. 53isecs. SEPTKMUER HANDICAP— Of 100 SOWS. ; 7 furlongs. . Hon. W. A. Long's Daniel, by Neckersgat — Minnie, 3 yrs ... ... 1 Advice ... ... ... ... ... 2 Blucher 3 — Won by a length. Time, linin. 30sees. There were 18 starters. HAWKEsuuttY guineas — Sweepstake of lOgs each, with 250gs added ; for three-year-olds. Colts, Bst 51b ; fillies and geldings, Bst. Second horse 50gs, third horse 25gs. Ono mile. Mr W. Gannon's Merriment, Sstolb... 1 Hon. J. White's Rudolph, by MariiniHenry — Rusk, Bst. 2 Mr T. Lamond's Sydney, by Maribyr- | nong — Blue and White, Bst 51b ... o —Four horses started. Merriment jumped away with the lead, which he maintained for half the distance, when Rudolph closed up and raced the leader to t ho entrance of the straight. When fairly in the home stretch Rudolph looked all over a winner, but within the distance Merriment came again, and citching Rudolph at every stride, won a grand race by a length. Time, lmin. 43isecs. COUNTY PURSE HANDICAP — Of 200 SOYS. ; 1 mile Mr W. J. Frank's, jun. Bernardo, by Henchman— Ophelia, 4yrs, 7st ... 1 Mr W. Gannon's Touchstone, syrs, (ist 121 b 2 Mr T. Stewart's Rosicrucian, 4yrs, 6s fc .'< Seventeen started. Tlie tield were despatched to a splendid start, and Bernardo obtaining the lead at the bend maintrrned it to the finish, winning by a head. Time, Xxiv.w. 42|secs. [By Zona.] fixtures. September 30 and October I—H.1 — H. B. Spring Meeting. October B—Napier8 — Napier Park Meeting. October 16— P. 8. Turf Cubs Spring Meeting. November 5, 6, and 7— N.Z. Cup Meeting. November s—Melbourne5 — Melbourne Cup. November 11 — Gisborne Racing Club. November 27 and 30, December .'3 and 7 Dunedin Exhibition Meeting. November U and 11— Auckland Racing Club. December 26 — Auckland Cup. LATEST BETTING. N.Z. Cup— loo co 10 against Occident, Lorraine (tk, 100 to 9 wtd) ; 100 tj 8 ag.st Son-of-a-Gun. Melbourne Cup. — 100 to 10 against Silverton and Tradition ; 100 to 5 agst Carbine and Mentor ; 100 to 4 agst Singapore, Antaeus, Rudolph, and Richlieu ; 100 to 3 agst Melos and Chicago. Caulfield Cup.— loo to 8 ag.st Manton ; 100 to 6 agst Bravo. Carbine is in grand condition. Occident is the favorite for the N.Z. Cup. The Hon. W. Robinson's horses, including Chainshot, Exchange, Morrie England, &c, will be sold in a fortnight. A private letter received in Wellington, under date Melbourne, September sth, says :— " If Carbino progresses iv the same way as he is at present doing you need not look any further for the winner of the Melbourne Cup, with all his 10 stone. Chicago is doing well at Sandringham (near Brighton), and I fancy he will annex the Caultield Cup again this year." At the annual meeting of the Wellington Racing Club the report regretted not having to record a more financial success, and congratulated the members on the passing of the new rules, which would probably prevent the totalisator being abolished by the Legislature. It recommends the incoming committee to persevere with the scheme for building a new stand. The balance sheet show receipts \ L 3497 9s and expenditure L 3484 10s (id. | All the officers were re-elected. A Committee meeting of the Gisborne Racing Club was held on Saturday afternoon. A number of tenders were opened for working the totalisator for the racing season and that of Cooper and Barry's was accepted. The date for the summer meeting was fixed for the 21st and 22nd of January. A good programme is likely to be arranged and this will no doubt be the meeting of the season. The programme for the November meeting is published in another column. Lochiel's dam has dropped a foal to Nordcnfeldt, Trenton's dam has also dropped a foal to the same sire. Fitzjames is nominated in 4 races at the Napier Park Meeting. Mr P. Butler has gone to Sydney to take charge of Manton. I should like to draw Manton in a sweep on the Metropolitan. I may stato the Hon. W. Robinson's death does not effect nominations of his in either New Zealand or Australia. It would seem that Anstralia is to be Cuirassier's dart, as he has not been entered for any of the events at the Hawke's Bay and Napier Park Meetings. Corunna is entered for all the principal races, so it would seem that he is to stay in New Zealand. A well-known Gisborne sport who was in Sydney about six weeks ago, heard William Beach remark : '"Personally I don't like Searle, but, as a sculler it is my opinion that he is the fastest man that ever breai hed,but be careful how you back him. "