SPORTING NEWS.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 277, 23 March 1889, Page 3

SPORTING NEWS.

HAWKE’S BAY AUTUMN MEETING. Napier, Thursday. The second day’s racing of the Jockey Club’s autumn meeting came off on Tuesday last, and was very successful. The weather, as on the opening day, was all that could be desired, and the racing even more interesting. The totalisator did not meet with quite so much patronage as on Cup day, the total amount invested being £3797. The inside machine only passed through £536 of this amount, the remaining £3261 going on the outside totalisator. The dividends were all good, and if the public spotted all the winners on Monday they failed to do so on Tuesday. In only one event, the Consolation, was the favorite victorious, the other races proving pitfalls for the unwary. The reversals of form in some of the races were very striking. In the Grand Stand Handicap Leopold, with 7.8 in the saddle, was made favorite, but he finished last but one, yet he came out later in the day, and when comparatively unbacked won the Burke Memorial Stakes. The running of the colt in the two races appears irreconcilable. It cannot be explained away on the ground of lack of pace for the shorter journey, as the Burke Memorial Stakes was run at exactly the same rate of speed as was the Grand Stand Handicap. The majority of the colt’s backers in the first race stood off him in the big event, and great was the gnashing of teeth over his win. The form of Kotuku in the Grand Stand Handicap and Juvenile Stakes was also strikingly peculiar. With 6.9 on her back in the first named event she was absolutely last, but with 8.3 up for the Juvenile Handicap, she won easily. It may be argued that the distance in the Grand Stand Handicap was too great, but at the end of the first six furlongs Kotuku was fairly beaten, and she certainly did not run the distance as fast with the lighter weight up as she afterwards did with the heavier impost. With such unaccountable in-and-out running before them it is not to be wondered at that backers failed to spot the winners, and the day’s speculation must have been disastrous to many. In spite of the drawbacks alluded to the racing was extremely good, nearly all the finishes being keenly contested, The following are the final results of the racing :—

Burke Memorial Stakes,, of 200 sovs ; second horse to receive 20 sovs, and third horse 10 sovs, from the stake ; limits.—Mr Beresford’s Leopold, 7.4, Lindsay, Ist ; Mr Bobbett’s Lady Norah, 8.6, 2nd; Mr Tancred’s Cupid, 6.12, 3rd. Silence, Jet 'dEau, and Turihau also started, The flag fell to a wretched start, Leopold, Silence, Lady Norah, and Jet d'Eau getting away together, while Cupid and Turihau were almost left at the post. Silence was the first to single himself out from the field, but they had not gone more than a furlong before Turihau took command and led at a good pace past the stand by two lengths from Lady Norah, with Silence third, Leopold fourth, Cupid fifth, and Jet d’Eau in his usual place, last. Bounding the bend by the shed* the field gained on Turihau, and at the back Lady Norah and Leopold had caught him, Oupid also having run forward. At the railway bend Lady Norah and Leopold raced away, and at the turn into the straight the three-year-old had got the best of the struggle, and was landed a winner by two length*. Cupid, who was three lengths away, beat Silence by a nose for third place. Time, 2min 40 l-sth sec. Totalisator*—lnside : 199 investors, 19 on the winner; dividend, £9 Bs. Outside: 764 investors, 82 on the winner ; dividend, £8 7s. Juvenile Handicap, of 100 sovs,, with a sweep of 5 sovs, for acceptors added ; for two and three year olds ; 6 furlongs.—Mr G, P. Donnelly’s Kotuku, by Musket—Maid of Athol, 8.3, Morrigan, Ist; Mr Jas. Munn’s Strephon, 7.10, Page, 2nd ; Mr T, Paratone's Kariri, 8.0, 3rd. Iphigenia and Eileen also started. A rather indifferent start, Strephon being first away, and Iphigenia the last to move. Strephon maintained his lead to the home turn, his nearest attendants being Eileen and Kariri. In the straight, however, Kotuku came with a fast run, and passing everything succeeded in scoring a victory by a length ; Kariri was half a length away third, and Eileen the same distance behind, fourth. Time, 1 mih’lB 4-sth sec. Totalisators—lnaide : 124 investors, 18 on the winner ; dividend, £6-4s. Outside: 510 investors, 47 on the winner ; dividend, £9 15s. Consolation Handicap, of 50 sovs. Once round.—Mr P. Tancred’s Cupid, 7.7, Poulson, Ist; Mr D. Hepburn’s Audaoity, 72, 2nd ; Mr W. Bobbett’s Patchwork, 6.7, Cook, 3rd. Tennyson, 6.7, also started. A good start was effected, -Tennyson having a slight advantage, with Cupid next. Tennyson made play in front of Cupid and Audacity to the railway bend, where he was done with, and the other pair came on alone, and a ding-dong race ensued. In the straight the whips were out in real earnest, but after a slashing finish Oupid won by half a length, Patchwork a fair third. Time, 1 min 51 3-sth sec. Totalisators—Outside: 480 investors, 193 on the winner ; dividend, £2 4s. There were no investor* on the inside machine.

Sydney, March 20. The following weights have been declared for the Sydney Cup, to be run at the autumn meeting of the Australian Jockey Club on the 22nd April

CSBISTOBUACR. The following acceptance* have been received for the GaxAT Autumn Handicap, of SOOsove., 14 miles:—Dudn 9.5, Silvermark 8.7, Buby 7,12, British Lion 7.12. Lady Florin 7.5, Captain Cook 7.3, Vandal 7.2, Bavenswing 7.2, St, Clair 6.12, Mon Loup 6.10, Wakatipu 6.0, Bainbow 6,0.

st lb st lb Abercorn .. Australian Peer 9 4 Wycombe . 7 4 9 4 Marie .. . 7 4 Lochiel .. .. 9 2 Bernardo . 7 2 Carbine .. .. 9 0 Volcano . . 7 2 Carl yon .. .. 8 11 Minerva . 7 2 Cardigan •. 8 10 Ernani . 7 0 Cranbrook .. 8 8 Looksley . 6 12 Tradition 8 6 Centaur . 6 12 Manton.. .. 8 4 Stornaway . 6 12 Recall .. 8 4 Amina.. 8 2 Pearlshell . 6 10 Tranter.. . 6 10 The Yeoman .. 8 2 Sir Bonald . . 6 10 The Queen 8 0 Claremont . 6 8 Oakleigh 8 0 Tartar.. . 6 8 Industry 7 12 Esperance . 6 6 Mozart .. 7 10 Miss Alice . 8 6 Plutarch .. 7 10 New Guinea . 6 4 Honeydew . 7 10 Minstrel Boy . 6 4 Lonsdale . ■ 7 9 Snowfoot . 6 2 Theorist.. .. 7 9 Faith .. . 6 2 Keith .. 7 9 Eclipse . 6 0 Lady Betty ■ 7 7 Blueness . 6 0 Melos ,. 7 7 Blucher . 6 0 Yabba .. ,. 7 7 Lady Lyon . 0 0 Chaldean . 7 4