HAWKE’S BAY JOCKEY CLUB AUTUMN MEETING.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume VI, Issue 289, 6 February 1896, Page 12

HAWKE’S BAY JOCKEY CLUB AUTUMN MEETING.

NOMINATIONS.

Hawke’s Bay- Cup of 400 sovs, one mile and a half. —Rip Van Winkle, Brooklet, The Possible, Searchlight, Bessie McCarthy, Tireuse, Q.ueensborough, Pompom, Man-o’-War, St. Hippo, Three Star, Black and Red, Fabulist, North Atlantic, Spindrift, Mahaki, Leontine, The Brook, Gipsy Grand, Barrnby, Flying Shot, Prime Warden, Lady Zetland, Saracen, Dreamland. Railway Stakes of 100 sovs, six furlongs.— Moira, Popgun, Torpina, Brooklet, The Brook, Orion’s Belt, Searchlight, Bonnie Scotland, Bessie McCarthy, Pompom, Stepfeldt, Acone, Black and Red, Doris, Solitaire, Daring, King’s Bowman, The Workman, Gipsy Grand, Bisley, Flying Shot, St. Regel.

The Castor —Nvmph colt, Orion, is named after a giant hunter, noted for his beauty. He was blinded by (Enopion, but Vulcan sent Cedalion to be his guide, and his sight was restored by exposing his eyeballs to the sun. Being slain by Diana, he was made one of the constellations, and is-supposed to be attended with stormy weather.