SPORTING NEWS.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 293, 2 May 1889, Page 2

SPORTING NEWS.

WAERENGA-A-HIKA JOCKEY CLUB’S BIRTHDAY MEETING.

The following nominations have been received for the Waerenga-a-hika Jockey Club's annual Race Meeting, to be held on the Waere-nga-a-hika racecourse on the 24th of May, 1889

FLYING handicap. Devery’s Myth McMillan's Forest Queen Cooper’s New York Warrington's Dancing Master Parsons’ Impostor Nasmith’s Luna Hepburn’s Criminal (late Turehau]

HANDICAP HURDLE RACE. Boyle’s Tit Bit Smith’s Ariel Currie and Hogan’s Darnley Parsons’ Nancy Finucane’s Bachelor

BIRTHDAY HANDICAP. Boyle’s Tit Bit McMillan’s Forest Queen Currie and Hogan’s Darnley Parsons’ Impostor Nasmith’s Luna Hamon's Nora „ Fitzjames H. Potae's Mata Hepburn’s Criminal (late Turehau;

It is stated that in future the V.R.C. has determined to have nothing whatever to do with pony racing. Escutcheon has been purchased by Mr Powell, a Wanganui sportsman, for the sum of £175.

The sum of £,f,3Tl was passed through the totalisators during the late Easter Meeting of the Auckland Racing Club. N' t bad J The Victorian Racing Club have decided to increase the added money of the Melbourne Cup to 5,000 sovs., with a sweepstake of 50 sovs. each.

It is reported that a commission has been sent from America to buy either Cranbrook, Sheet Anchor, Cardigan, or Carbine, for stud purposes, and that a purchase will in all probability be effected.

Manton, with Derritt up, was (says the Melbourne Sportsman) given long strong work. When stripped, he looked a very taking horse, and one who, when well, will take no end of beating. The well-known sporting writer 'Centaur’ in his remarks on the Tradesmen’s Handicap, at the late Easter Meeting of tbe Auckland Racing Club says :—Balista and Escutcheon were the favorites on the machine, while Audacity, by his good looks, gained many admirers.

The following very very mixed paragraph appears in a late number of the New York Clipper :—The Melbourne Cup was run for over a distance of two miles at the course of the Australian Jockey Club, near Melbourne, Aus., on November 6, and was won by D. S. Wallace’s Menton, by Swiveller, 4yrs, 1151 b, in 3.30 J. Tra-iition, 4—96, second, by a length and a half; The Yeoman, s—lol, third, a length behind, The winner was piloted by Mike O’Brien, who was presented by Mr Wallace with a cheque for 12,500d0l after the race. The odds against the horse were 7 to 1, Chicago being the favorite at 4 to 1.