NAPIER.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume V, Issue 235, 24 January 1895, Page 6

NAPIER.

[by

WIRE.]

January 22. The Hawkes Bay horses competing at the Poverty Bay Meeting returned from their campaign on Sunday last, having been only fairly successful. That honest little T. Rose won the two mile Hurdle Race at the Gisborne Racing Club’s Meeting with lOst. on her back,-and for this performance she was raised 171bs. for the second day’s race which was a quarter of a mile shorter. This, notwithstanding the fact that the mare did not get a place in the race over the same distance at the Poverty Bay Turf Club’s Meeting, when she carried 101 b. less weight. Perhaps the handicapper thought she had been running a bye, but the result showed this to be an erroneous impression, as Worth scored somewhat easily and T. Rose ran a poor third. Two cast-offs from Mr Ormond’s stable, Worth and Free Lance, annexed a race at each Club’s meting, so that both owners have now got back the full purchase money paid for their horses. Krina won two small stakes for her popular owner, but taking the meetings all through the local horses more than held their own. A large army of race-goers left on Sunday and yesterday to attend the Wellington races, and judging by the result most of the Hawkes Bay visitors to the Windy City will have no cause to complain as Spindrift and Spruce provided two good winners to start with, and Mahaki was as good a horse for our backers as anything except North Atlantic. The other winners too, all found some supporters from this part of the colony. My anticipations of some of the events

published in your last week’s issue were ' fairly successful, and although the Wellington Cup was a great betting race it cannot be said that recent form was upset in any way, as the three horses whose latest time performances over this distance have been the best, filled the places. During this morning a strong rumour was circulated in town that North Atlantic had gone amiss and was scratched, an announcement which caused great consternation to his large body of supporters. Some of them say now they wish he had been. A team of cricketers from the Poverty Bay district, called the Gisborne Wanderers, arrived here on Thursday week last on a cricketing tour. They played / five matches, one against a combined Hawkes Bay team and the other four against the Waiapa, Napier, United, and County Clubs respectively. All five matches were won by the local players, but in the games against Waiapu and United the Wanderers had very hard luck in losing, as had they had a few

minutes more time for play both these matches would almost certainly have been won by them. As it was in each of these instances they lost the game on the first innings. The visitors showed excellent batting form, but were not sufficiently supplied with change bowling, Bruce and A. W. Rees having to do nearly all the trundling in every match. Por the Wanderers, W. L. Rees, A. W. Rees, Staite, Bruce, and Hillson all batted vyell in the various matches, and Lusk, Mills, Lewis, Smith. Logan, C. and D. Canning, Swan, and G. Wffiite all made good scores against them. The visiting team was entertained at a smoke concert on Saturday evening, and a wish was expressed that meetings between the cricketers of the two districts might take place more frequently.