ACCEPTANCES.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XX, Issue 1135, 11 January 1912, Page 12

ACCEPTANCES.

WELLINGTON RACING CLUB.

After the declaration of second forfeits, the following horses remain in

THE WELLINGTON STAKES of 500 sovs, five furlongs.—Elevator, Submersion, Imagination, filly by Martian—Cuiralba, Rangiatua. Obligant, Lady Georgia, bay filly by Hierarch—Crecy. Autumnus. Scottish Tar, Winning Way, chestnut filly by Field Battery—St. Winifred, Glad Tidings, gelding by St. Ambrose —Maun, Canute. Sinapis, Valido, Beldame, Glade Rongapai, May Dalrymple, Ermengarde, brown filly by Boniform—Leonore, Prince Soult, Massilia, Peroneal.

There was a great struggle between. Ariom and Vi in the January Handicap at Hastings, when the pair ran loeked together throughout, Ariom winning by a nose; It reminded one (writes “The Judge”) of that famous battle at Ellerslie between Explosion and Seahorse, in which the black and the chestnut fought out the greatest battle in the history of Auckland’s great racecourse. On that memorable occasion the two rivals ran stride for stride the whole way, and the excitement as the pair, grimly contesting every inch of, the ground, struggled past the post, was something that will remain in the memory of those present for all time. On that occasion victory went to Seahorse by half a head.