TAKAPUNA JOCKEY CLOT’S MEETING.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XVII, Issue 1002, 20 May 1909, Page 5

TAKAPUNA JOCKEY CLOT’S MEETING.

TO BE OPENED ON SATURDAY.

The racing season in Auckland for 1909 is fast drawing to a close, and local sports who are content to take their racing without going away from home have but two meetings to go to at which they can take part. The meetings referred to are the Takapuna Jockey Club’s Winter and the Auckland Racing Club’s Great Northern meetings. At Devonport on Saturday the Takapuna Club will start the ball rolling, and with capital acceptances for each of the seven events which go to make up the .programme, f hose who make the journey across to the marine suburb should have no cause to complain of the outing provided, if, of course, there are no “Masseys” or “ Millars,” to use Mr. C. Wragge’s terms, creating any disturbances. However, it is to be hoped hat the weather conditions are favourable, and should this be so, a large attendance may be reckoned upon. Patrons will no doubt miss the steeplechase from the programme, which had to be omitted owing to several buildings being erected on the hill. Nevertheless, the club has substituted a maiden hurdle race, which should prove almost as interesting. \ good deal of interest will be centred in the meeting owing to several of the candidates for the hurdle races being amongst those claiming an en-

gagement in the Great Northern. The principal event of the first day’s programme is the Empire Handicap, which claims an acceptance of 16, and which is run over a mile and a-quai-ter. Lochbuhie is in pride of place with Bst 81b, but he has been decidedly off colour of late, and would have to improve a good deal on Avondale running to win thw Empire. This he has evidently done, as he easily accounted for Bully and Escamillo over a mile and a-quarter the other morning. Sedition (8.7) I think is a “Sunday” horse, and generally runs well when least expected. Advocate (7.12) has been off the scene for some time, but Miss Winnie (7.11) has been given a good chance, taking her running in die Autumn Handicap at Avondale as a guide. For the race mentioned the daughter of Leolantis jumped out in front, and that was the end of the mile race so far as the winner was concerned. Evidently Scotty (7.10) has been treated as a light of other days, but the St. Leger gelding may be far from done. Scotty ran fourth in the race won by Spate at Ellerslie at the Easter meeting, and the chances are that he will improve a good deal on that running on Saturday. Waihuka, Bully, and Carmania all figure in the 7-0. division, and the latter will be remembered as putting up an attractive performance when she won the Avondale Handicap last month. Necktie (6.10) is galloping very attractively just now, and she may be relied upon to put up a sterling fight. The acceptances are as follows: — MAIDEN PLATE, seven furlongs.— Waiotahi 8.6, Zinnia 8.4, Jill 7.12, Valentine 7.7, Luminator 7.4, Tamahere 7.2, Dainty 7.0, Waikuku 7.0, Seldom 7.0, Lady Jane 6.12, Castle Blaney 6.12, Toa Tere 6.10. MAIDEN HURDLE RACE, one mile and a-half and 100yds.—Kremlin 10.7, Waikato 10.0, Tui Caobau 9.12, Bully 9.10, Carlyle 9.8, Pukenui 9.7, Eblis 9.6, Sweet Alice 9.6, Gladsmuir 9.5, Powerful 9.5, Kaitangata 9.5, Cymri 9.3, Heathen 9.3, Keep Step 9.0, Urania 9.0, Armagh 9.0, Hokomai 9.0. EMPIRE HANDICAP, one mile and aquarter.—Lochbuhie 8.8, Sedition 8.7, Advocate 7.12, Miss Winnie 7.11, Scotty 7.10, Waihuka 7.9, Bully 7.8, Carmania 7.6, Wauchope 7.4, Dardanus 7.2, Necktie 6.10, Escamillo 6.8, Newtown 6.8, Rimlock 6.7, Lord Rosebery 6.7. Leaflre 6.7. ROYAL HANDICAP, five furlongs and a-i:alf. —Dogge'r Bank 8.12, Foremost 8.9, Hohungatahi 5.5, Devonport 8.2, Tarina 7.10, Sir Artegal 7.7, Tanekaba 7.5. John 7.1, St. Maria 6.10, Coromandel 6.10, Positive 6.7. H.'i'RAKi HURDLE RACE, two miles.—Ben Jonson 12.3, Sol 10.6, Reservoir 10.5. Le Beau 10.5, Cuiragno 10.3, Pop’ar 10.0, Te Arai 10.0, Irish 9.11, Luscombe 9.10, Creusot 9.6, Bully 9.5, Te Kninui 9.4. NGATARINGA HANDICAP, five furlongs and a-half.—Waiotahi 8.7, Zinnia 8.5. Jill 7.12, Norma 7.10, Aimwell 7.7, Valentine 7.7, Starboard 7.4, Don Quex 7.0, Waikuku 7.0, Silent 7.0, Censure 6.13, Madam Soult 6.13, Matarere 6.13, Leaflre 6.12, Castle Blaney 6.12, Komata 6.12, Olive Rose 6.10, Crescent 6.10. PONY HANDICAP, five furlongs and a-half. —Mghty Atom 9.2, Glenora 9.0, Octoroon 8.9, Mistime 8.6, Quadroon 8.2, Nora Soult 7.12, Cyrona 7.10, Maika 7.8, Tupaea 7.0, Etonia 7.0.