SPORTING.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume V, Issue 652, 27 August 1891, Page 3

SPORTING.

Racing has the whip hand of agricultural shows in this district, but in Auckland the big racing c’ub had to give way to the Agricultural Society in the matter of dates selected. “ Spectator,” of the Weekly Press, tipped the winner and the second horse in the Grand National. In another column Mr A. H. Barron announces the fees in connection with his recently imported stallion Hukatere. As the horse is a good size, and has remarkably good bone, he should have a very fair season.

The steeplechase horses taken to Melbourne from Napier by Mr W. Douglas, were submitted to auction recently, and realised the following prices Montrose 11. 525g5, Mr Macklin j Chemist 170 gs, Jupiter llOgs, Mr Glasscock; Kapo 100 gs, Mr Clough ; The Peer 45gs, Mr Macklin. At a committee meeting of the Napier Park Racing Club hold last week, it was decided to give £5lO in stakes for the summer meeting and £1340 for the autumn one. A number of minor alterations were made, and the committee adjourned until Friday evening, when the programme for the winter meeting was to be arranged. The following is from a Christchurch paper :—“ By last evenins’s train from the south one of the finest Clydesdale stallions in the South Island was brought to Christchurch, en route for Napier, where the horse is to travel this season. The horse is named British Lion, and was imported from Scotland five years ago. Since British Lion’s arrival in New Zealand his success in the shon ring here has been exceptional, and he has proved himself one of the best stockgetting sires in the colony, and the quality of his stock in Otago proves him to be a grand sire, In color he is a rich dark bay, with three white feet and a white face. He shows a great profusion of hair, and his general appearance is that of a typical Clydesdale.” The annual report of the Auckland Trot, ting C ub showed a credit balance of £435. The clqb heads the list of trotting dubs in the amount of stakes and the amount passed through the tota’isator, Hops was expressed that the difficulty with the New Zealand Trotting Association at Christchurch would soon be satisfactorily settled, The c’ub considers it advisable to increase the stakes for the present season, and intends givi g an average of £4OO per diem in stakes, including one race in each day’s programme of at least £lOO. and at the summer mee ing it is its intention to increase the amount of added money to the Auckland Trotting Cup by making it £2OO.