Pakuranga Racing Club's Spring Meeting.

Observer, Volume X, Issue 621, 22 November 1890, Page 15

Pakuranga Racing Club's Spring Meeting.

The above-mentioned club bring off their Spring Meeting on Saturday on the Otahuhu racecourse. The xjlub has the misfortune to hold their meeting on the same day as the Amateur Athletic Club celebrate their carnival, which is sure to prevent some of the public from journeying out to Otahuhu, but, nevertheless, the ■old faces are sure to put in an appearance. The programme consists of seven events, the entries for which have filled out very well. The honorary secretary, Mr R. Williams, has left ns stone unturned to make the meeting a success, and if the clerk of the weather is •only favourable, some good racing should be witnessed. Special trains will run to the course. The following are jny anticipations of the different events — x Handicap Maiden Plate. Priscilla 1 Fishmonger 2 Deception ... ... ... ... ... ... 3 Maiden Hurdle Back. Sentinel 1 Randwick 2 Dundee 3 Handicap Farmers' Plate. Ingorina ... 1 Lord Gillie 2 Deoeption ... 3 Tamaki Cup. St. Michael 1 Tamora 2 Leorina 3 Handicap Hurdle Race. Larrikin 1 !Nap 2 Fishmonger 3 Selling Race. Blarney 1 Octopus 2 Memorandum 3 Flying Handicap. The Baron 1 Capella 2 Prisoilla ... „, 3 — St. Andrew has sent in his resignation for the Otago -Cup. — ' Jimmy ' Kcan is expected to arrive from Melbourne next week. — It is stated that Crackshot will be sent to Australia -for sale shortly. —It is doubtful whether Titan will ever face the .starter's nag again. — Pakuranga Racing Club's Spring Meeting on Satur* day, at Otahuhu. —Weights for the Auckland Cup and Steeplechase are ■due on the sth of next month.

— St. Andrew has been taken to Dunedin to fulfil his ! engagements at the Spring Meeting. — The Takapuna Jockey Club are offering very large prizes for their Summer Meeting. — The C.J.C. Metropolitan Meeting will probably result in a profit of about .£SOO to the club. — The Admiral is the first Maribyrnong Plate winner that has succeeded in winning the V.R.O. Derby. — I hear that Tommy Ghent has lost Te Kooti, Mr Alf . Greenwood now having him under his watchful eye. — The value of the stake to the winner of the Melbourne Cup was .£IO,OBO, and a trophy value .£l5O. ■ — Old Neok-or-Nothing took first prize in the leaping match at the Agricultural Show, Ngata getting second, and Euchre third. — Brigadier took first prizes at the Show as the best entire for producing weight-carrying hacks and also for being best stallion on the ground. — Besides being appointed handicapper to the South Auckland Racing Club, Mr E. D. Halßtead has been elected to that position for the Avondale Jockey Club. —The locally-owned mare, Dolosa, by Leolinus— Lure, won the Warwick Farm Handicap, run at Sydney on Saturday last. The stake was lOOsovs, and the distance one mile. — Nordenfeldt's stock won three of the biggest prizes at the C.J.C. Metropolitan Meeting, the Derby, Welcome and Canterbury Cup, and the Juvenile Plate also fell to a son of his. —Owners of ponies and trotters at a distance are reminded that nominations for the principal events of the Auckland Trotting Club's Summer Meeting are due on December 5. —One of New South Wales oldest trainers said when questioned on what he thought the best food for racehorses m training, that nothing was better than New Zealand hay. — Mr A. Lean, of Hastings, Hawke's Bay, has undertaken to ride a horse 120 miles in 24 hours, for a substantial wager. He is to undertake the feat in about six weeks' time. —Mr W. Paul's brown filly, by Sword Dance out of Woodnymph, bred by the N.Z. Stud Co., took the first prize at the Show, being the beat filly foaled since August Ist, 18S8. — Leopold has been an absentee from the Caulfield training track since the decision of the Caulfield Cup. It seems as if something has gone wrong with the last Auckland Cup winner. — The progeny of Nordenfeldt — Medallion, Crackshot, Lebel, Palliaer, Namoa, and Carronade— won .£1689 Is out of a total of «£5613 lls distributed by the C.J.C. at their Metropolitan Meeting. —Mr W. Percival gained first honours at the Agricultural Show for being the best amateur rider. Tom Brown was second, and Messrs Dawson and Tonks divided the box of cigars for third position. — Major Geo-ge has bestowed the name of Calvi on The Workman's half-sister, Nile on Fiesole's halfbrother, and Swiftsure on Raglan's half-brother, the trio owing their paternity to Nelson. . — Nominations for the Maiden Plate, Hurdle Race, , Avondale Cup, Steeplechase, Flying Stakes, and Stewards' Handicap, in connection with the Avondale Spring Meeting, close to-morrow (Friday). — What will temperance people say to the following par:— The Admiral's teeth gave his trainer so much trouble that the colt had to be hand fed, and each meal was washed down with bottled beer. — From a private letter irom a well-known Auckland jockey iv Melbourne, I learn that Cuirassier ran splendidly for a mile and a-half in the Melbourne Cup, but after that distance he died away. — Mr G. iNasmith, secretary of the Gisborne It.C, has forwarded me a programme of their Summer Meeting, to be held on iuesday and Wednesday, January 6 and 7, 1891. Seven events are set down for disposal on each day, and the prize money is very good. — A Wanganui resident had a dream some two months ago of a certain horse winning the N.Z. Cup. He described the horse of his dream to a friend, who told him that the description was that of Wolverine. The dreamer at once backed the horse named and won .£IOO. — Horse owners are reminded that acceptances and general entries for the different events of the Takapuna Jockey Club's Spring Meeting, to be held on Saturday, Nov.29th, are due with Mr R. Wynyard on Wednesday next, Nov. 26th. — Mr W. Knight, who acted as secretary to the Auckland Agricultural and Industrial Show, has been appointed handicapper to the Takapuna Jockey Club, and will compile the handicaps for the Spring Meeting. By the bye, the issuing of the weights has been postponed until the 24th inst, owing to the Pakuranga Racing Club's meeting taking place on the 22nd. — Maxim was on the Canterbury A. and P. Association Ground for some time during Show day. He was not in competition, but was simply paraded. The son of Musket has, it is reported, grown into a great stallion. The prize for the beat stallion was awarded to Mr D. Rutherford's Chain Shot, by Musket — Locket, with another son of Musket, Mr P. .butler's Artillery, second. — Mr Boyle fined the following jockeys at the C.J.C. Meeting: — Maiden Stakes— Ray «£3; N.Z. Cvp — Ray, Thomas, and Clifford £5 each ; Ricoarton Welter — Muler and Matthews .£5 each ; Welcome — M'Morran £3, Holmes <£3, and White £5; Stewards' Stakes— White and M'Morran £b each ; Criterion Stakes— Buddicombe £5 This makes a total of £5i — a nice contribution to the Distressed Jockeys' Fund. — Nominations for the Welcome Stakes of 1891, and Derby and Oaks of 1892, closed with the secretary of the C.J.C. last Tuesday week. There are 81 entered for the Welcome, 74 for the Derby, and 39 for the Oaks. The Welcome has only decreased one, but the Derby and Oaks show a falling off of twelve and three respectively. The N.Z. Stud Co. are the principal nominators in the three events. In the Welcome and Derby they are represented by no Jess than 24 entries; and in the Oaks by 8. Nordenfeldt is the sire most largely represented. Mr T. Morrin is responsible for nine entries and Major George for three.