WESTLAND RACING CLUB.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 5762, 5 January 1897, Page 1

WESTLAND RACING CLUB.

HOKITIKA, Jan. 4. The first day's racing of the Westland Eacing Club's" Midsummer Meeting was held to-day. The weather was magnificent, and about 2000 people were present. The sum of .£2789 Avas passed through the totalisator. Eesults: — THB TRIAL STAKES, of 25 soys; one mile-^ Tonganui 1, Taipnri 2, Johnny Faa 3. Dividend— £2 is. THE HACK BACE, of 25 soys: one mileHarkaway 1. Johnny Mai-Lin •_'. Dividend—£4l3s. THB HOKITIKA HANDICAP, of 55 soys; one mile and a quarter—Banner 7st 121 b, 1; Speculator 7st 12ib, 2. Time—2mm 10' sec. Dividend—£llos. THE HACK EACE, of 20 soys; one mile— Bloomsbury 1, Harkaway 2. Dividend—£l 6s. THE HURDLE BACE, of 35 soys; one mile and a halt—Minerva lOs*. 1; Couranto list 31b, 2. Time—3min f£sec. Dividend—£3l33. THE MINERS' PUBSK, of 30 soys; one mile— Beturn 1, Frenchy 2. Dividend—£2 9s. THE F LYING HACK BACE, of 20 soys • w.f.a.; six furloDgs—Fish-Oh 1, Bloomsbury 2. Dividend —£2.

A meeting of the committee of the Amuri Turf Club was held on Jan. 2, and it was resolved that the annual races should he held on Wednesday, March 17. A programme almost similar to that of last year was adopted, except that a District Maiden Trot of two miles was substituted for tho Consolation Handicap. Second payments for the Juvenile Stakes, and nominations for the Second Juvenile Stakes, to bo rim at the May meeting of the Canterbury Trotting Club, must be made to the Secretary by Saturday next.