SPORTING.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7965, 16 February 1906, Page 6

SPORTING.

RACING.

POVERTY BAY RACES. By Telegraph—Press Association. UISBORNB, February 15. The Poverty Bay Turf Club's summer meeting commenced to-day in dull weather. The sum of £5,759 was put through the totalisator, agaiust £6,021 last year: Results:— Welter Handicap.—To Hauke 1, Mantego 2, Jack Pot 3. Also started —Nukumarata, Cromwell, Te Arai, Alluvial and Priscilla. Wou by a length. Time, lmin 50 4-ssec. Dividends, £1 8s and £6 6a. Hurdles.—No Shot 1, Roseplot 2. Morpeth 3. Also started—lnspau and Medallius. The latter fell. Wou by two lengths. Time, 3mm 28 36?oo. Divjdetd, £2 13s. First County Stakes. Gladsruuir 1. Sarilla 2. Uateby 3. Alao .started —Moura, Cinque, Bruiser, find Countermarch. Won by a length. Time, lmin 18 2-ssec. Dividends, £6 Is and £4 19s. TURANGA STAKES, Mdhutooga, 10.6 ... * Kaipetipeti, 6.13 ... * Minerve, 6.12 3 * Dead heat. Alao started—Heroism, The Stake, Lady's Link, Hiki, and Bonomiaua. A splendid race, and a very exciting finish. All the horses were lose up. Lady's Link was fourth. Tirno, 2min 14 2 sseo. Dividends. Mahutonga £1 12s, Kaipetipeti £6 17s. Maiden "Scurry.—Kitchen Maid 1, Kuunui 2, Aruiteuru 3. Ten started. Won easily. lime, 51 2-ssec. Dividends, £2 19s and £3 2s. Telephone Handicap.—Contender 1, Trent 2, Goldfield 3. Also started —Maityr King, Discoverer, Forest Rauger, Tukapa, Silver Lead, Hinetitama, Kitchen Maid, Miss Adeline and Tewhitini. Wou by a length. Time, lmin 4s-eo. Dividends, £2 13s and £lO 6s. ' First Hack Flat.—Lavinia 1, Re-! servoir 2, Flag. Also started—Bono- J miaua, Ho.vwoud, Jack Pot, Matuka, White Squall, Cinque, Te Utu, Artilleiyman, Nukumaratia, Haukiti, Reah, and Flume. Won by a length. Time, lmin 47see. Dividends, £l3 5s and £4 Bs. { Flying Handicap. Soultina 1, Pink-'un 2, Martyr King 3. Also started—Full Cry. Won by a length. Time, lmiu 17sec. Dividends, £4 18a. EGMONT RACES. - SECOND. DAY, HAWERA, February 15. The following are the results of to-day's Egmont races:— Waimate Handicap.—St. Claimer 1, Tambourina 2, Delaware 3. Scratched—Lady Annie. Time, lmin 17 4-ssec. Dividends, £4 lis and £1 7s. Inaha Hack Flat—Pangaroa 1, Merriwi 2, Tbo Lark 3. Scratched —Land o' Cakes, Tautara. Time, 1 lmin 24 sec. Dividends £3 7b and j £3 13s 6d". Eltham Hurdles. Vexation 1, Defoe 2, Catherine Gordon 3. Scratched—Kharca. Time, 3min 29seo. Dividend, £3 18s Gd. Okaiowai Hurdles.—Geologist 1, Haereioa 2, Mawbiti 3. Scratched— Cassiopea. Lion Heart, Inglewood, and Mawbiti fell, the laßt two at the final hurdle, allowing Geologist, who was a furlong away, to win. Time, 3min 35seo. Dividends, £3 5s 6d and £ll 10s. ATKINSON MEMORIAL STAKES. Glenullin, 6st 101b 1 Grenade, 7st 131b 2 Paritutu, 9st 3 All started. Time, 2min 14 3-5 eeo. Dividends, £7 6s 6d and £l3. Hack Scurry.—Clementine 1, The Lark 2, Colleen 3. Scratohed—Uhlaads, Dooiel, Courriere, Brown George. Time, lmin 5 l-sseo. Dividends. £6 14s and £1 4s 6d. Normanby Welter.—Regulation 1, Polycaste 2, Submarine 3. Scratched —Kuroki, Lovelink. Time, lmin 48sec. Dividends, £2_l4s 6d an d £1 Is. • Te Roti Hack.—ltfova 1, Maharabui 2, Slavey 3. Time, 2min 22 sseo. Dividend, £5 Bs. Also started - Matakihi, Kaimere. A protest against Nova for alleged ning was dismissed. WOODVILLE ACCEPTANCES. Acceptances for the first day's handicaps and entries for the Maiden Plate ana Hack Scarry, at the Woodville District Jockey Club's Autumn Meeting, to be run on Wednesday and Thursday, 21st and 22nd inst., will close with the secretary, Mr E. J. Gotbard, Woodville.j at 7.30 p.m., to-night.