TAKAPUNA RACES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 14199, 30 January 1915, Page 6

TAKAPUNA RACES.

(By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, Friday.

The summer meeting of the Ta':cpuna Jockey Club opened" to-day iv wet weather. Haiti foil continuously from 11 o'clock, and after the third race the committee and the stipendiary stewards met to consider whether the programme should be proceeded with. It was eventually decided to postpone the running of the remaining events till tomorrow. Despite the unfavourable couditions there was a fairly good attendance of the public, and the sum of £SG76- 10s was put through tho totalisator for the threo events. Macmillau, the rider of Takanini in tho Maiden Plate, was called before the stewards to explain his handling of that horse. After hearing his explanation, the stewards administered a caution. Ecsults: —

Handicap Maiden Plato, of 150 soys, 1 mile.—l Marble Star 7.7 (Dceley) 1. 0 Gluetanus 7.7 2, 7 Gold Mount 7.(5 o. Also started —4 Glenspire, o Takaniui, o Troublesome, 2 Plenipoteut, 10 Sir Rupert, S Ulster. 11 Hopye, 9 Embers. Won by throe lengths, five lengths between second ami third. Tune, 1.48 1-5.

Zealamiia Handicap, of 200 soys, 7 furlongs.—2 .Jolie I'illo B.;> (Buchanan) 1, 1) Selection 7.2 2, 1 Tattoo 8.9 3. Also started—7 Prince Soult, f> Cheddar, 5 Tripoli, 4 Worcester, 8 Kaweeu, o L:uiy

Penury. Won by a head, with TaLloo thief iongths away. Tinuj, J..J2 2-o.

Hauruki Handicap Maiden Hurdles, of i/T) soys, 1-2 miles and 100 yards.— 2 Spalpcrion 9.8 (O'Council) 1, 3 Barbwire 10.7 2, 1 Poictiers 9.8 3. Also started—G Uaku, 8 The Celt, 9 Laverna, 12 Starkut, 4 Providence, 10 The Glad Eye, 7 Waitopa, 14 Erindale, 9 Grey Lupin, 11 Confirm, 5 St. Lewis. Won by three lengths, five lengths between second and third. Time, 3.12.