SPORTING.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 5487, 12 February 1896, Page 1

SPORTING.

' : 7'.yjj y ;VVy y/.<» v v ■.;■' NAPIErMrK. EACING CLUB. •■•'.;.- '[Per Pbess Association.] ''. VV ,! ■■■'••.; V NAPIER, Feb. 11. The following nominations were received to-night for the Napier Park Racing Club's Autumn Meeting :— CITT STAKES HANDICAP, of '2oo bovb ; one .mile .and ;a half— Searchlight, Orion's Belt, Amoreanx, Betribution. Lord Baron, Three Star, Panoply, Acone,. Leon tina, Kingsmon, Bip Van Winkle, Popgun,. Aio, Loda, Brooklet, The Possible, Bonnie' Scotland, Tireuae. North Atlantic, Martyrdom, Spindrift, Queenaborongh, Ben Varrey, Saracen, Lady Zetland, Prime Warden, Merganser, St Begal and Dreamland, '. feLYING HANDICAP, of 100 bovb j six furlongs —Searchlight, Orion's Belt, Armoreaux, Moira, Efrgsman, Acone, Panoply, Stepfeldt, The Work, man, Popgun, Kent, The Brook, • Tireuse, Bonnie Scotland, Solitaire, DaunMess, Fearnought, Ben Varrey, King's Bowman, Torpino, Sc Kegal aad Misa Nelson. .'■'•.- --' NAPIEB CUP, of 300 sots ; one mile and a half —Searchlight, Orion's Belt, Betribution, Lord Baven, Three Star, Panoply, Leonrina, Kingsman, Bip Vara Winkle, .Leda, Aio, Brooklet, Tireiise, Bessie BTGarthy, The, Possible, North Atlantio, Spindrift, Queensborough, Saracen, Lady Zetland Prime Warden and Dreamland. WAVEBLEY STAKES HANDICAP, of 100 soys; six furlongs— Bearohlight, Orion's Belt, Armoureaux, Moira, Kingsman, Acone, Stepfeldt, Panoply, Bip Van Winkle, Popgun, The Workman, Kent, The Brook, Tiranse, Bonnie Scotland, Bessie M'Carthy, Solitaire, Daring, Defiance, Ben Varrey, Decoration, King's Bowman, Heavenly Twin, Iphimede, Torpina, St Begal, Miss Nelson and Gold Cup. ■ .•■ ■ ' . ; INVERCABGILL, Feb. 11. In a case in which John Loughlin, Leonard Smith and Timothy Hayes, bookmakers, were sometime ago charged with betting on the Winton racecourse, Mr Poynton, S.M., this morning gave judgment in favour of the defendants. He said the ..men, according to the evidence, had been walking round the course in the same, way as -other patrons of the races. They had no distinguishing badge,- and nothmg.fixed on; the ground 'dr. 'on their perwnsfo; indicate itheir callings. JyJJ'J