THE TURF.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2391, 5 January 1909, Page 3

THE TURF.

GISBORNE RACING CLUB.

Owners and trainers arc reminded that nominations close with Mr FI. E. Dodd (Secretary) at 9 p.m. this evening for the following events iat the summer meeting of the Gisborne Racing Club, to be held on the Park racecourse on Thursday and Friday, February 4th and sth : —Flying Handicap, £6O, six furlongs; First Handicap Hurdles £6O, one and a half miles; Summer'Handicap .£llO, on© and a . quarter, miles; First County Stakes Handicap, £6O, six furlongs; Park Stakes Handicap £6O, seven furlongs; Second Handicap Hurdles £6O, one and three quarter 'miles; Second County Stakes Handicap £6O, on© mile; Electric Handicap, £6O, five furlongs; Grandstand Handicap, £IOO, one mile and. a distance; Final Handicap, £6O, seven furlongs. , . . The weights' will appear for the first day’s events on Saturday, January 16th, and nominations for the minor events .will close on Tues-clay > January 26th, at 9 p.m.

MURIWAI RACES. The Muriwai Racing Club held a race meeting at Muriwai yesterday. There was a fair attendance, and the races were well contested, a dead heat ibein o " recorded in tbe Ladies’ Bracelet Handicap. After this race the crowd clambered around the judge, and it was only by the assistance of the police that lie was protected from Peinrr roughly handled. One feature of tile racing was tlic success of outsiders, so that the bookmakers who jivent out had a successful day. The following were the results: - 'Maiden Scurry, four furlongs: Apple Pie 1, ‘Off Chance 2. Muriwai Cup, one mile: Glenrose 1, Matiti 2. Takitinm Stakes, five furlongs: Cakewalk 1, Jack 2. . Ladies’ Bracelet, one mil©: binder and Kaikoura dead heat. Cmklgts 3.' Flying Handicap, six furlongs: Cakewalk 1, Traitor 2. Ponv Handicap: Dago 1, Kaitoa 2. Forced Handicap : Glenrose 1, Kaikoura 2. "

HOKITIKA RACES

[Press Association.]

HOKITIKA, Jan. 4

The Westland Racing Club’s summer meeting took place to-day. Trie following ar© the results: Stafford Handicap: First View 1, Sylorie 2, Silent Member 3. .Stewards’ Handicap : Ito and Montague dead heat, Hillspring 3. . Dash Handicap Trot: Merry 1, Lady Ella 2, Matapu 3. Westland Handicap: The ( Orient 1, Investment 2, Hamua 3. Also started: Ada, Armamento, Laura Rose, Ruapehu and Freeland. Won by a head. Kaniori Handicap Trot: Prudence 1, Cobra 2, Lady Ella 3. High Weight Handicap: Hamua 1, Freeland 2, Coxswain 3. Flying Handicap: Adria 1, Hillspring 2, Silent Member 3. £2902 went through tlic totalisator.