Wellington Trotting Club’s Summer Meeting.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume III, Issue 131, 26 January 1893, Page 7

Wellington Trotting Club’s Summer Meeting.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

[by wire.]

Tuesday, January 24. The Wellington Trotting Club held their Summer Meeting to-day in beautiful weather. About 500 people were present, and Mr. F. N. Jones, of Nelson, who worked the totalisator, put through £l 2lB. The meeting cannot be called a success for some very glaring irregularities occurred. The worst was a flagrant case of pulling which occurred in the Selling Trot, and over which the stewards held an enquiry, and disqualified the horse Cotherston and his rider D. Corrigan for i2 months. The results of the various events were as under :—

Maiden Handicap Trot, saddle or harness, of 2osovs, 2 miles : Maud, 255, 1 ; Madcap 11., 10s, 2 ; Dodger, 255, 3. Won by 50 yards. Time, 7mm losec. Dividend, £\ 4s.

Electric Handicap Trot, in harness, of 2osovs, if miles : Rarus, scratch, 1 ; Fragment, xis, 2; Cotherston, 28s, 3. Won easily. Time, 3mm 28 1-5 sec. Dividend, £1 10s. Pony Handicap Trot, in saddle, of 15SOVS, 2 miles: Starlight 11., 655, 1; Silvertail, 455, 2 ; Cliquot, 40s, 3. Won by 50 yards. Time, 6min 46 2 5 sec. Dividend, 17s. Wellington Trotting Club Handicap, in saddle, of sosovs, miles : Spider, 235, 1 ; Fragment, 265, 2 ; Tuesday, 50s, 3. Won easily. Time, 7mm 4 1-5 sec. Dividend, £1 17s. Selling Handicap Trot of 2osovs, 2 miles: Poppett, 50s, 1 ; Cotherston, 20s, 2; Dodger, 50s, 3. Dividend, £1 18s. Stewards’ Stakes Handicap Trot, in harness, of 30S0VS, 2 miles: Rarus, scratch, penalised 6s, 1 ; Fragment, 18s, 2. Won easily. Dividend, £1 4s. Consolation Handicap Trot, in saddle, of 15SOVS, 2 miles: St. James, 40s, 1; Tuesday, 255, 2 ; Conway, 40s, 3. Won easily. Dividend, £ $ 75..