DUNEDIN NOTES.

Press, Volume XLVI, Issue 7392, 19 August 1889, Page 2

DUNEDIN NOTES.

[from oxra correspondent.] The Wanaka Jockey Clab have unanimously resolved to endorse the action of the Cromwell Clab in requiring an alteration of the rule as to the amount of a bakes to be Riven per day. They will, however, give the required £200 at their annual meeting in the spring. Three more country dubs have sent in their adhesion to the action of the malcon-

tents. These are the Maniototo, Arthur's Point and Fortroae Clubs, the last named a very small affair, however. Ihe band now numbers eleven. «n»« nn For the Otago Hunt Club meeting on September 13th and 14th nominations close as follows on Saturday next:—&.ensington Handicap (flat) of 70sov9i; Trot of 40sovs; Tally-Ho Steeplechase of lOJao* s» shorts Handicap (flat) of oOsovs; Hurdle Handicap of 55sovs: Telegraph Handicap (flat) of 55sovs; Hunt Club Handicap of 90sovs; Trot (saddle) of 35sovs; Welter Handicap (flat) of 45sovs; and Pony Handicap of 15sovs. A racehorse, reported to be tmrty-nve years of atre, was sold by auction at the bunedin saleyards on Saturday. His name is Tapioca, but his breeding his unknown. Mr W. H. Taggart owned him twenty-two y6 Thl"programme for the Palmerston and Shag Valley Racing Club's spring meeting on Octfoberllth is to hand, and from it 1 gather that only £160 will be given in stakes. This will not, however, get the vexed question as to the abrogation of the £200 limit tested in a practical manner, for the club can, of course, make up the £40 deficiency by adding that sum to their autumn programme. Since writing the first paragraph of these notes the Oamaru Tradesmen s Racing Club have intimated their determination to throw In their lot with Cromwell, and the other rebels, making a dozen up to date. . . ~ August 14. Harry Goodman returned from his unsuccessful trip to Victoria yesterday, only to hear of the burial of his little eon two days before. ,_ it A bookmaker named Patterson, commonly known as the " Stepper," came in the same boat. , . Our club committee have started the work of erecting a new totalisator building, and as this will project forty feet into the saddling paddock, a more than compensating piece of ground will be taken in at the other end, making the paddock half as large again.