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New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume IV, Issue 206, 5 July 1894, Page 5

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; June 30. The -Hon. J. D. Ormond’s Iliad, who was engaged in the Ladies’ Bracelet at the H.B. Steeplechase Meeting, broke his . leg .while exercising on Tuesday morning,*and had to be. destroyed. . > • j f B*Y 'WIREJ ; s July 3rd. ! f ‘Morag reopened the wound in his leg during the Hawke’s Bay Steeplechase; although he cleared all the jumps without Striking any, and will have to be spelled for a time. ' 'The acceptances received for thc Gisborne Paris Winter meeting are very good,-and uninteresting .meeting should result. Lascar was Shipped for 'Gisborne by foeßotomahana on Saturday. -My selections for the Gisborne meeti g ate Hurdles —Tricky Jack 1, Disturbance 2, Waterlily 3; Gisborne Park Steeplechase—Roscius 1, Criminal 2, -- New Year 3; Winter Oats—Jewel 1, Orescent 5 2, Hukatere 3 ; Final Handicap -—Zillah 1, ‘Tricky Jack 2, Samoa 3; Hunters’ Steeplechase — -Jorrocks 1; Lascar 2, The Bishop 3 ; Ladies’ Bracelet—The Bishop 1, Baldie 2, New Year 3. ■ Lascar’s win in the ELunt Club Cup at Hastings was a very lucky one, as Sir Tatton ran'round when going well, and « Repo made his “effort too late. Had Sir Tatton -kept on the course I think he would have been returned the winner. 1 Roscius won ‘the Hunters’ Steeplechase in Igood style, and. 'bar accidents, Should win the big money at Gisborne ■ on Thursday. 'At the'saile'df racehorses 'at Hastings on Saturday last none of the lots were . quitted, Kempenf eldt being “passed -in at 65 guineas, Renata at 5 50, Lady Hamil- ‘ ton at 100, Goodwood at TH, ('Prairie Gntsr at 75, Dainty at 50, Como 'at 40, 25. ‘Forerunner was also pMUrtdinNews from Gisborne states* that the thoroughbred stallion Wakatipu is ‘ dead.