AUCKLAND TROTTING CLUB’S AUTUMN MEETING.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume VII, Issue 350, 8 April 1897, Page 9

AUCKLAND TROTTING CLUB’S AUTUMN MEETING.

[By

Atlas.]

The Autumn Meeting of the Auckland Trotting Club will be opened on Saturday at Potter’s Paddock. The track just now is in splendid order, and, if favoured by fine weather, the meeting is bound to be a great success, for the attendance should be good, while the large fields entered should ensure an excellent afternoon’s sport. I am disposed to make the following selections : — Autumn Handicap. — Rangiuru 1, First Whisper 2, Romeo 3. Flying Stakes. —Germina 1, First Whisper 2, Lena 3. Hurdles. — Little Raven 1, Platch 2, Helena 3. Harness Trot. —Slim Jim 1, Rosebud 2, Alice 3. Stewards’ Trot. —Kapai or Darlington. Maiden Trot.—Bessie Doyle 1, Wallace D 2, Doon 3. , • Electric Trot. —Kapai or Carbine. The following are the acceptances : — Autumn Handicap of 40 sovs, six furlongs and a half.—Romeo 10.10, Lena 9.6, Silkworm 9.6, Bit o’ Fashion 9.4, Topsail 9.0, The Flower 8.7, Israelite 8.7. Kit 8.4, Rangiuru 7.8, First Whisper 7.7, Maria 6.7. Flying Stakes Handicap, five furlongs. — Romeo 10.12, Lena 9.12, Bit o’ Fashion 9.4, Cupid 9.2, Israelite 8.9, Kit 8.6, Lady Howitzer 8.4, First Whisper 7.10, Rangiuru 7.8, Germina 7.4, Papamoa 7.4, Kaipara 7.0, Little Belle 6.7. Handicap Hurdles, one mile and a half. — Platch 12.4, Fauntleroy 12.0, Little Tom 11.10, Pembroke 11.0, Helena 10.10, The Dove 9.12, Little Raven 9.12, The Flower 9.10, Kaipara 9.0, Little Belle 9.0. Harness Trot Handicap of 40 sovs, two miles. — Duke C. scr, Rosebud scr, Alice scr, Hordern 16sec, Claret 16sec, Sandfly 18sec, Violet 40sec, Slim Jim 4Dsec, Lord Harold 40sec. Stewards’ Trot of 50 sovs, two miles.—Lusitania scr, Duke C. 2sec, Darlington Bsec, Nellie 12sec, Fibre 16see, Kapai 20sec, Otara 20sec, Vulture 24Bec,Ingar 28sec, Hazlewood 28sec, Golden King 28sec, Lawyer Bell 30sec, Doone 32sec, Slim Jim 34sec. Matden Trot of 25 sovs, one mile. —Lusitania scr, Wahineapai ssec, Woodbine 6sec, Little Agnes 12sec, Gaiety Girl 12sec, Wilton 12sec, Imperial Prince 12sec, Wild Rose 11. 12sec, Imp 12sec, Golden King 14sec, Miss Graham 14sec, Wallace D. 15sec, Bendigo 15sec, The Judge

16sec, Imperator 16sec, Doone 16sec, Bessie Doyle 21sec, Doctor 21sec, Judge Byron 21sec, Coralie 21sec. Electric Trot of 35 sovs, one mile. —Charlie scr, Old Judge 2sec, Hurricane 6sec, Ladybird 9sec, Carbine 11 sec, Kapai 13sec, Otara 13sec, Claret 13sec, Sandfly 13sec, Ingar 17sec, The Judge 19sec, Lawyer Bell 19sec, Doctor 20sec.