HAWKE’S BAY JOCKEY CLUB’S AUTUMN MEETING.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume III, Issue 136, 2 March 1893, Page 6

HAWKE’S BAY JOCKEY CLUB’S AUTUMN MEETING.

This meeting follows right on to that of the Wanganui Jockey Club, the dates selected being Thursday and Friday, March 16th and 17th. The acceptances and general entries will be found in another column. Out of 28 entered only 11 are left in the Hawke’s Bay Cup —which is hardly a satisfactory acceptance. I am glad to see Merganser left in, and at 9.0 she certainly has not been harshly dealt by. Boulanger, 8.12, is well in, too, on paper, and so are St. Katherine at 7.10 and Thame at 7.5 —the latter especially after her meritorious second, under somewhat adverse circumstances, in the Dunedin Cup. However, it will be time enough next week, after the Manawatu and Wanganui Meetings have been numbered with the past, for me to make a selection. Eleven is again the strength of the acceptances for the Railway Handicap, six furlongs, and this also I shall leave alone till our next issue with the remark that, all in, I fancy Krina and Ua most. Some of the general entries are not up to the average I expected to see, but on the whole the various items of the programme have filled well. The Trial Handicap has 10 entries, the Pacific Handicap 11, the Ferewell Handicap 19, the Burke Memorial Stakes 20, the March Handicap 25, the Autumn Handicap 22, the First Hurdles 12, the Nursery Handicap 10, the High Weight Handicap 15, and the Juvenile Handicap 12. Owing to the Wanganui Meeting not being over, the declaration of weights for the first day’s handicaps has been postponed till Saturday week, March 11 th, and acceptances will not close till March 14th.