Coming Events.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume IV, Issue 203, 14 June 1894, Page 3

Coming Events.

[By

Borderer.]

HAWKE’S BAY WINTER MEETING The Hawke’s Bay Jockey Club are the next people in the racing programme, their Winter Meeting being fixed for the 22nd inst. The weights for the two jumping events —the Hurdles of 100 sovs, and the Steeplechase of 300 sovs —have been declared, but the acceptances will not be received in time for this issue. So that in considering the chances of those two events I am at a considerable disadvantage. Given an acceptance I can, however, give my readers my ideas of the chances of the races. In the Hurdles Kulnine heads the weights with 12.6, and I regard it as a certainty he cannot give weight to many of those placed below. For instance, what sort of a chance has Kulnine of giving weight to Melinite, whose weight is 21b below that carried by her in her A.R.C. Grand National victory. If the Nordenfeldt mare be in a going condition Kulnine has not much of a chance of winning. The next weight Tiritea, 11.6, I regard as out of it, but Kapua, 11.5, has a chance second to few. Victrix, Somnambulist, Dromedary and Criminal I do not care much for, and the next is Melinite, and readers can imagine as much about her chance as I can write. In the form which Aucklanders saw her in, her chance should be second to none. But I am not at all sure that Hawke’s Bay will be her meeting. Worth and

Lonely have but a poor show. Of Oaklands, Waterlily and Unity, I prefer the first named and Pounamu, who since his return from Australia has been put to the jumping game, should have a chance. T Rose and Jewel do not commend themselves to me. The three I fancy are Kapua, Melinite, and the top-weight Kulnine. In the Steeplechase 18 horses have been dealt with by the handicapper, and Norton, who tops the weight list with 12.11, will, I think, be beaten by a lower-weighted candidate. Whalebone at 11.6 should be beaten, and so should Tiritea, 11.3. Timothy, 11.2, has a chance, and Booties, 10.10, and Victrix, 10.9, should be beaten by Elk, 10.8. Kapua and Dick I do not like over this course, and of those weighted below them I prefer Lonely, Morag and Repo. Morag, I think, should win, and the next best are Elk and the light-weight Repo.