WALLACE COUNTY JOCKEY CLUB RACES.

Western Star, Issue 931, 18 March 1885, Page 2

WALLACE COUNTY JOCKEY CLUB RACES.

President, Dr Young; Vice-Presidents, a F. Woodward, D. Me Jallura and J. W. j; Hamilton. 1 Stewards : Messrs M. Instone, Fraser Wohlers, Lyon, Burns, Hayes, F. Sutton, Borne, Livingstone, Towler, E. Gr'filths, s Burg-ss, J. Steel, J. Pattison, J. McKenzie, £ James Hay, John Hay and T. Booth. 1 Judge, Mr J. W. Hamilton; Clerk of Scales, j Mr E. Willett ; C’LERK OF COURSE, Mr ? J. Wohlers ; Starter, Mr J. L, e. Treasurer & Secretary, Mr J. W. Bridge ; f Handicapper, Mr H. Howells. This annual race meeting took place 1 yesterday, in Mr McCallum’s paddock j on the Highlands, adjoining the town ■ boundary, the gratuitous use of which . had been kindly granted for the occasion. The weather was all that could be j desired, contrary to the misgivings of the previous day, when appearances indicated anything but favourable > weather. For a natural one, the , course was good, although rendered rather heavy by the rain of the prei vious two days. Although the entries in most of the events were not so numerous as could have been desired, contests were close, and in several instances there were very exciting finishes. The programme was disposed of in exceptionally good time, as may be gathered from the fact that although a start was not made till one o’clock, the last of the eioht events was finished by half-past five—a result due in a great measure to the promptitude of the Secretary, Mr Bridge, and the officers of the Club, amongst whom may be mentioned Mr M. Instone (judge), Mr J. Lyle (starter), and Mr j. Wohlers (clerk of course). With the exception of the protest entered against Cathedral, the winner of Eace, nothing approach, ing a dispute occurred in connection with the carryingout of the programme, and the greatest good order prevailed amongst the assemblage on the course, which numbered not less than 400. Mr J. Hay, of the Havelock Hotel, “ran” the booth, and Mr Gregg, of Invercargill, had the fruit and luncheon stall,JJboth of whom seemed to do good | business; while Mr Bentley had his ’ totalisator on the ground, which was moderately well patronised, a total of i <£lso having been put through. The : first event sent away was the ‘ Handicap Hurdle Race of 15 sots. Distance, 2i miles, over eight flights of i hurdles 3ft. 6in high, j Hay’s Cathedral, 10st (G. Smith) 1 I Sheridan’s Mountain Deer, 10st (McNab) 2 i Bridge’s Waitaki, 9st 71bs (Pankhurst) 0 ‘ This was rather an extraordinary \ \ event. It was thought that there \ would have been a good contest bes tween the Deer and Cathedral, and 1 the betting was pretty equal between these , two horses; but the chesnut t baulked badly, and thus knt any . chance off carrying of the stakes. The t hurdles were partly to blame for this, 1 they-being very narrow, and it was 5 consequently almost impossible to f | keep the horses straight on to them i Cathedral also baulked several times, t and had Waitaki taken the hurdles he 1 could have comfortably eantered home, k bu L . he followed the bgd example set , him by the leaders, and several times j obstinately refused to negotiate the e obstacles. The greatest uncertainty 3 existed at times regarding the result of "the race, as each horse successively baulked. Cathedral led oyer the. .first e two hurdles, the others baulking at s the second; but at the third hurdle 9 this horse slewed round and only '• cleared the supports of the hurdle, f He kept on his course, however,.until f he reached the sixth jump, at which he baulked, „The Deer in the mean--8 time had recovered himself, and. took the lead, but-refusing to'go over the ■ hurdles Cathedral came to the front f again, went an extra round, in cone sideration of not having taken third i hurdle properly, and still came in an e easy winner. Waitaki took Abe last t hurdle a few lengths in advance of the I Deer, but coming up, the straight the 3 latter quickly showed in front and 3 passed the judge a couple of lengths 1 ahead. A protest was lodged against | Cathedral by the owner of Mountain . j Deer on the ground that Cathedral I did not take the thir l hurdle; but the ■ ' protest was disallowed, as the horse p 1 cleared the supports to the hurdle, , and, in the absence of flags, that was held to bo a proper jump. At a later • period of the day, a private match was > partly arranged between Cathedral and | the Deer, hut it ultimately fell through. The totalisator showed a total of 24 . tickets, II of which were on the winner, the dividend being £2 Bs. 1 Maiden Plate, of 7 aovs. Distance, IK miles. Fraser’s Lidy Bird ... (Law-ion) 1 Fraser’s Piay Boy ... ... (Harvey) 2 M. Hayes’Te Koofci ... ;;i 0 Bridge's Eowena 0 "Woolf’s Maori 0 Mr Lyle got the horses away on even terms, Plav Boy showing in front, with Eowena and Lady Bird in e'ose attendance. Shortly afterwards Eowena bolted off the course, which put her out of the race. Eraser’s pair* kept the lead to the end, despite a game effort on the part of Te Kooti to d'spute the honors. Lady Bird led past the judge a couple of lengths in advance of the others, well in hand. Totalisator: 29—16 —£1 12s. Wallace County Cup, b Handicap of 20 sovs., with a sweep of 1 so*, to go to second horse. Distance, 2 miles. Smith’s May Boy, 7st 7lb ... (Moffat) 1 Mclntyre's Sloper, 8-t ... (McN’ab) 0 Only two out of the five nominated faced the starter. May Boy started with the lead and kept it to tho end, winning the race hands down. ■ Totalisator; 41 —19 —£1 18s. 5. District Handicap, of 10 sovs. Open to all Irorses that have been the bom fide property of re idents within 9 miles of Riverton for three months prior to date of entry. Distance, LJ miles. M. Hayes’ Pad ly (GK Smith) 1 Eraser’s Lady Bird was the only other entry for this race, but as it was discovered that she was not qualified to 1 compete (not having been the property of the owner for three months prior to ] date of entry), the owner scratched i her, and Paddy had a walk-over for half the stakes. 1 4. Handicap Trotting Race, of 8 aovs. \ Distance, 2 miles. Post entry. [ Patterson’s Chief, 30 secs ... (owner) 1 -j Rollinson’s Merry Girl, scratch (owner) 2 Wilson’s 3p segjs (owner) 3 C

Jones’ Tommy (10 secs), Fraser's Charlie (5 seis), Hudson’s Tbornbwy (30 secs), Booth’s Bobby (25 secs), and Hirst’s Bess (35 secs) also competed. Merry Girl soon went through her horses and obtained a place, and but for breaking two or three time* she had the race in hand ; as it was, she put on a grand spurt towards tho finish and come in a good second, although Chief and Dinah trotted very steadily.,-,

6. Hack Selling Race, of 5 son. Di»tmcfi.'lj miles. Winner to be (eld for £lO, any surplus goes to Club. - > Hayes’ Te Kooti (Daniel) 1 McKay’s Antelope ... ... ... . , S Towler’s Charlie and Booth’s Bobby also ran. This race lay between T«. Kooti and Antelope, between whom a good contest ensued. After a capital race between these two horses'- T« Ksoti come in a winner by a length. The winner was sold for £B. 7. Consolation Handicap, for all beaten horses during the meeting. Distance, one mile and a distance. m ter'4 Mclntyre’s Sloper, 8s 71b (McKenzie)?: 1. Fraser’s Play Boy 7ab (Laweoa) Sheridan’s Mountain Deer. 7«t 121 b O ■ ... ... ~r .. , -,TPlay Boy started with the lead and* kept it till entering the straight, when Sloper, who had been keeping about a length behind, pushed ahead and won by a length, Mountain Deer a good third.

8. Hospital Race, winner to receive a whip Catch weight. Proceeds to go tb Wallace Hospital; one mile and a distance. Paddy aud Antelope had a capital pace for this event, the former 'pulling it off by only half a length. Play Boy and Catch-the-Ten also •*

In the evening Mr BurgeM, :, th© : genial host of Wallace County Hotels entertained the ate wards, to,, a most] sumptuous supper. The Jable* were loaded with solid and liquid refreshment of toothsome and lip'-amacking vmety; and the artistic-display® guiled the delicate appetite. ““‘The tables gave ample proof of that mine host of “The Wallace” is equal to any demands in this particular line o£ entering. Amongst the toasts duly honored jrjis “ The Host,” whicluwai proposed in felicitous terms and responded to in a happy’manner ****