Orr-Day, Monday, 6th May, 1889, The off day this meeting was hardly as largely attended as usual, perhaps owing to the threatening weather, which however happily held up, and the meeting was brought to a very successful conclusion, 'The racing to-day was very good, the fields large and the times excellent considering the heavy course, the time of Aftila in the Visitaat Cup being only a second behind that made in the Griffins' Race. The native "jockeys mustered in very large force and acquitted themselves with credit to the great delight, expressed in the usual suppressed grunts, of the crowds of Chinese who lined the roads round the course, There were one or two very popular wins and ale ridden by the owner was after muc trying placed as a winner, though a foul was claimed by the rider of Feiho and
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