SPORTING

Timaru Herald, Volume CV, Issue 160, 28 September 1916, Page 7

SPORTING

GERALDINE MEETING TO-DAY. ■ A good number of southern \-isitors arrived last night in readiness for the Geraldino Racing Club's meeting, which opens on the Orari racecourse today, tho first event, tho hurdio race being scheduled for 1.25 p.m. Timaru. people will find the 11.40 train most convenient to travel by. The course and surroundings will appear to greater advantage than thev did a year agv when the country uas feeling tho effects of drought, and tho racing should bo at least as interesting as usual Three New Zealand Cup candidates—the consistent Ringform, the winner of last year's race, Ardenvhor, and the three-year-old Ayclifle—figure in the Coraldino Cup, in which Aycliffe will make his first effort over a distance. Another Cup candidate, Moidant, is engaged in another race, and-his running will be watched with interest, as his owner signified his dissatisfaction with Moidant's treatment at Kui-ow by scratching him for that meeting immediately the weights -apueared. All profits from to-day's meeting will be devoted to patriotic nurnoses. and following tho usual custom soldiers m uniform will bo addmitted free.

NEW ZEALAND TROTTING CUP. Per Press Association. CIIRISTCHTJRCH, Sept. 27. The following are tlio first acceptances for the NEW ZEALAND CUP HANDICAP (Harness), of 2500 sovs and silver .cup. 4.36 or better. 2 miles. Our Thorpe 108 yds bhd Don Caesar 84yds bhd Admiral Wood 72yds bhd Tommy C. 48yds blid Cathedral Chimes 36yds bhd . Erin's King '24 yds bhd Steel Bell 24yds bhd Evelyn 24yds blid Jingle 24yds bhd .. Emilius 12yds bhd Wallace Wood 12 yds bhd Ravcnschild 12yds bhd Persuader 12yds bhd St. Ursula .......: scratch Jewel Chimes scratch Frandocia scratch Eccentric scratch Brown Bell scratch Succeed Scratch Mandarcne scratch