AKAROA COUNTY RACES.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume XXIV, Issue 2133, 9 March 1897, Page 2

AKAROA COUNTY RACES.

- These races•'* take -place to-day,- and there _ is*every?, |&d* County . Club having ttpiriusiialfine jtfejMher for the meeting. The events "have fitled very*well fxeept tfie'puiT mp l?or *hd MofdleVwhioh i. a--district rice; large entries .were not anticipated, bqt - a meat many p§opl© consider ing.wonlfl apt-fee-complete-unless there was a hurdle rajpp, apa co it is retained on the programme in spite of the wellM c*n feet that* fill better and be more profitable to the Club. No doubt the Ladies' Bracelet proposed by Mr Latter would thaff been _& cWdihgly popular, * but _#the number of events'in a owe d ay's programmo is atrict'y limited to eight and ioohe isf the 'others-could well bo omitted, it : had to be left out. The paucity _-»f acieeplaAces for. the Gup is very disappointing; *nd it even a mile and a quarter is too long to tempt owners, and certainly short distance fill best* .The District Maiden' haa filled yeyy well,_ and; if an extremely open race in Which we a*?<s glad to see -that many different parts of •the Opqnty^are represented, i Powder Bpectrnm spoken Tbff bftt 'h£he are to"be at all despised;ahd noi-doubt ea&h "wilt have a jg<3o% P""Of co-SrSe in this in;which Victor fd so many other trotting.Bires have left ©rriirk, and ing is so. .much better understood! thantrniuing 'for "'galloping, the trots* have filled well, --The handicaps seem to Hayei .given, every satisfaction, judging' from the 1 acceptances, anil results certainly f rem am. a *eiry. lh the twejve entered for the District there are; Several new perfbjmp'rs, anCtheir ic-ebut will bn watchiM( with, extreme interest Peninsula horses are also in the majority for, tha open avent,-for which; ,no less than fourteen propose to face the starter, jind; v*«. see;ino" prospeet'of an ea_y victory for any one., .The Flying Handicap with 1 its seven Gentries should be a most . popular race,- ;Tt includes a number of good horse**, and the time will probably be quite up to the mark.. Ihe District Welter- also prrvmises' to be rtn excellent rape i the best ** horses 'in the district* taking part," and as in tho Maiden, different localities being, well represented. The Selling race also pror noises well; nnd altogether^capital dey's snort uuty Ikj anticipated. . W_*>are glad to record that, there, will be a publican* b*otb on the ground, for we 6trbngly object to the universal battle which invariabry takes its place in* a booth's absence, and tends more to inebriation in our, than |he open t vending of j liquor; fffiero wills be toe /usual band, .' and excpilent arrangement's have ; been made for providing refreshments and otherwise securing the comfort'of visitor**. " Country Bumpkin's"'tipr appeared last issue, but wo repeat .them here :— ■ sturdiest, flero ; M»i-.®n*.*Powder, Monkey and Spectrumfeven);;.: J?np,_ Belligerent;; .District Trot, -Lady .Lincoln and Homeward j, Fly jggv Handicap? Belligerent and Range-finder; Open Trot, Grenadier "and Victor Jan.; Welter, Bumlbp; 1 Selling, M_iat». -.*''•-■'