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New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume III, Issue 150, 8 June 1893, Page 1

RACING PROGRAMMES in the Club’s Letter Box, addressed to the Secretary, Argyll Hotel, on the specified dates. (The. attention of owners is particularly called to this regulation.) Races will be run under the Rules of Racing. Five per cent will be deducted from the gross amount of all stakes. Application for election as a gentleman rider must be made to the Committee of the Jockey Club in whose district the applicant resides, and must be proposed and seconded in writing by Members of the Club. No person having received payment in consideration of work performed in connection with the training or riding of horses shall be eligible for election as a gentleman rider. M. G. NASMITH, Secretary. UNITED HUNT CLUB (WELLINGTON)' STEEPLECHASE MEETING, To be held on the HUTT PARK RACECOURSE on WEDNESDAY, JULY 12th, 1893 (Four days after Wellington Racing Club’s Winter Meeting). NOMINATIONS FOR 1. Maiden Steeplechase Handicap of 30 sovs., 2 miles W®. 2. Open Hurdle Handicap of 45 sovs., If miles ... 1 sov. 3. United Hunt Club Steeplechase Handicap of 50 sovs., 3j miles 1 sov. 4. Open Steeplechase Handicap of 75 sovs., 3 miles ••••• 1 sov. 5. Ladies’ Bracelet Handicap, value 25 sovs. for Ist horse and 5 sovs. for second horse, 2 miles, flat 10s. 6. Open Welter Handicap of 30 sovs., If miles, flat ■••• 10 s7. Farewell Hurdle Handicap of 40 sovs., lg miles 1 sov. CLOSE ON TUESDAY, JUNE 20th, at 9 P.M. H. M. LYON, Honorary Secretary. Royal Oak Hotel, Wellington, May 31st, 1893, N.B.—Races 1,3, 5 and 7 are confined to qualified hunters only. Races 2, 4 and 6 are open events. Complete Programmes forwarded on application to the Honorary Secretary.

A well-known gentleman residing in Wellington had a disastrous experience at the Otaki Maori race meeting on the Queen’s Birthday. He was in the act of approaching the totalisator to make an investment on the Flying Handicap, when a man in front of him in the ‘ race ’ came to a standstill and clutched at the side rails. Thinking he was intoxicated Mr tried to push him on, but the man obstinately refused to budge. While engaged in his attempts to get the obstructor along Mr — had his hat pushed over his eyes from behind. To put this back again he withdrew his left hand from his trousers pocket, where he had been keeping hold of a bundle of notes, comprising four tens, three fives and six ones. The approach soon afterwards being cleared he managed to get to the machine and procedeed to make his investment. A few minutes afterwards, on taking out his roll of notes, he was startled at seeing that it was much smaller than when he had handled it last, and lie was still more startled on opening the bundle to find that the four tenners and three fivers had disappeared, and that only the six £Ts were left. He has little doubt that his pocket had been cleverly picked while he was blocked in the totalisator approach, and that the thief placed the notes back in order to delay discovery. Suspicion attaches to a party of notorious spielers who were on the course, and it is not unlikely that an arrest will be made. After discovering his loss the unfortunate speculator found that his left hand pocket was cut for some inches, apparently with a pair of scissors.

Mr Fillis, the proprietor of the circus, has purchased from Mr F. N. Jones the thoroughbred horse Victory, by Puritan — Achievement, and intends taking him to his home in South Africa. At the price paid (toogns) Mr Fillis has got a bargain, as the horse has an undeniable pedigree, and his performances were most meritorious. Mr Jones has also disposed of a yearling colt by Puritan—Bridal Rose to Mr T. McCarthy of Wellington. He has left the trotter Fleabite in the hands of a Wellington sport, who will probably race him, but the old grey is at present in very poor condition. ‘Rata,’ the Christchurch correspondent of the Otago Witness, says that “ Clanranald is in active work of a steady kind, and should he go on all right through the winter he will in all probability be made ‘ hot goods ’ for some of the Spring handicaps. To look at he appears to be perfectly sound and altogether rid of the effects of the accident he met with some time ago. At the present time he is one of the most stylish horses on the Riccarton exercise grounds.” A New Zealander, Adventurer, by Fusilier (son of Musket and Yatterina)—Lass o’ the Hills, who was recently taken trom Dunedin to Melbourne, was sold in the latter city for 15 guineas.