Takapuna Jockey Club's Winter Meeting.

Observer, Volume XXVII, Issue 37, 1 June 1907, Page 15

Takapuna Jockey Club's Winter Meeting.

A big crowd assembled at the Shore on Friday last (Empire Day) to witness the concluding, day's racing of 1 Takapuna Jockey , ; Club's. Winter .'.. Meeting. The rain of the previous '• night had produced a he&v^. running ; ground. The outlook; on h. Friday -<■ morning was npt tod promising, but the afteriioohvheld fine, savefpr pne . or. two shpwers.. The programme : .i furnished: some:. first-c.lass snort, ~

was an - exciting .fi?iißli_ < b^j^9^ Haydri and Mooltan in;the Qs&&sTips Steeplechase, the fprinetjVge,tl&i3Di^ home by the narrow margin of -^^i^ length-. Another great ffiiiish^rjwrja^ that for. the Victoria Handica^'iylien' Miss Winnie, Soultmaid arid Certairir ty finished in that order within, heads of each other. The principal handicap was won somewhat /easily by Syren, with Annoyed, a- -big -out- \>, sider, as runner-up. Syren and Miss Winne nroved the winning double^ combination oh the Britannia and Victoria Handicaps, and the resulting dividend was £137 19s. There was again heavy speculation, the. total for the day being £7285*. The grand total for the two days reached ■ £22,756, an increase of £9098, this large^ sum being handled by the totalisator staff with commendable desDatch. Mr Wynyard, secretary, and the assisting workers are to be commended on the excellent conduct of the business arrangements of the meeting, and the club congratulated on the highly successful results.

imi *w .*. ' * N.Z. Cup entries close on the 4tli June. Big machine turnover at the Shore. Wanganui Steeplechase won by Nadador. Great Northern Steeplechase run next Monday. Great Northern Hurdle Race run on Saturday. Great Northern Meeting commences on Saturday. Mflhoe a short-priced favourite for the G.N. Hurdles. ■ 9,0 to 1 acnftfltfld about Mahoe and Irish for G.N. double. The death of the stailion Freedom is reported from Waikato. Narcissus broke his neck when "he fell in the Wanganui Steeplechase. Hardship, having injured himself last week, is disabled for winter racing, v Conductor was disposed of-s.last . week to Mr G. Kelly, of the East Coast. . ' - "■ ■■• •■ •-. '-" '■■'■ |. Irish and Kiatere have been nonvinated for the Hawke's Bay Steeule^ chase. . . . '; " A^ua Regia the only winning Auck? land representative at Wanganui ■ Meeting. • Julian had the winning mount in three of the five jumping events at the Shore. ": It is considered that Irish, but for his fall, would have won the Wanganui Steeplechase. > Delania continues unlucky. She was again second at Wanganui last Saturday — to Chatterer in the Winter Oats. Some judges consider that.Percival was too easy on Moolt'aji r in. Takapuna Steeplechase, and ■■„ that otherwise the son of Itipo might! have won. ' 'i* * Cachuca, third in Takanuna Steeplechase, ran well f ox a vt&%& horse. He should turn out'a.use^ ful horse over country when inorei seasoned. ■ ' • The Irish stable received some 1 salve at Wanganui for the defeat of ■ the 'chaser in the Steeplechase by> the minor win of Aqua Kegia in the^ May Hurdles. > One of the lucky drawers 'ipf the; . . £797 17s double diyidf^ift^the^ < Shore is a well-known cpuniiVy^p'orts* i man, and erstwhile Bedretsary ; §f; a£ country racing club; : } ■'"•. ■.^ v 'b Nadador, winner of the Wapganui?; Steeplechase, was a , sfepiig faiicy on|the Coast for the last Gratid^'i\atipn:-V; al SteeepleGhase, but . w<Biijb wrong j£ ; day or two prior to. the ' ,riace- feeingfr run. . ■". ; .''. • ."'*. ' '" : '^"'-""j ■■i' Two horses that ; fa^ed to'irun^p;?: to their track ■ form at TakapuhaX Meeting were liordSeatpn and Ppl^l caste j both .of had -done eppe(!i-||-allr^op^T^dr^'ttt^pU^j^Q'r|>ii^bv tcyi ■the JSnbre'iQ^Miigr' \' :l -** : "" ::^-~: : '/"',- f The two pony 'eyents ;a^:th^;Shore| were between -^F6irtlii:;-:\and'-':,:Migbib3r?l : Atpin. ''.;.. ( ]Porth /won ifche!? first aay ,| wijtK ■ ■ Mighty- Atom '■secpridj V -I'aiids 1 Migjity^ Atom ■■yron:-6i^ : '%n<d-i: > ti6cAjiiih ';d^;r\ifit^>iPkn^-seco^^