SPORTING.
ROYAL ASCOT MEETING. LONDON, June 15. • ■ -At the Ascot meeting to-day th© Gold Cup resulted as follows: — - • ASCOT GOLD CUP, value 1000 soys.-with a "- sweepstake of 20 soys each, and 3000 soys : added. Second horse 700 soys and third horse 300 soys from the stake. "Weight-for-age. Two miles and a quarter. Mr. CD. Ros'e'4 eh h Cyllene,\by Bonavißta—Arcadia) 4yrs, 9st '." '. . . 1 Mr H. V. Long's' eh c Lord Edward IL, by " . Enthusiast— Nobli? : Duchess; Gjrrs, 7st' 71b" 2 M. J. de Bremond's b h. Gardefen, by Ca'm-byser-Bougie, 4yfs, 9st *. . . . . 3 (Cyllene, although not a competitor in any of the classic races for three-year-olds last season, was generally regarded as the best of his age. Gardefeu was one of the-' best three-year-; olds in France last year. He. won the French Derby, and finished second in the Grand Prix de Paris. Among the entries for the Ascot Cup were the Australian-bred horse Atirum and the New Zealand Cup winner Waiuku. The former was withdrawn from training some months ago; but the latter, on latest advices, was in work.)
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 6513, 16 June 1899, Page 3
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