RACING NEWS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 169, 16 July 1908, Page 6

RACING NEWS.

THE FLEET MEETING. A meeting of the Fleet Racing HeefiacYCommittee was held last night, the Mitchelson presiding. It was de_B__.:ta alter the conditions bearing on the Conaeetictrt Steeplechase so as to allow owners-m to the time of going to scale to produce t_t qualification certificate of their hoaesr _fc» admission charge for ladies to the gaudstand enclosure was fixed at 5/. TPr_<_*__ tenders for the booths and fruit stalls —_m be received up to Monday next at max The following gentlemen were apiminted stewards, subject to their consent—__> Robert Loekhart Messrs A. "W. Gordon, TC, D. Flolgate, O. Nicholson. C. Rarmoif, _S i Sinclair. W. C. Somers, A- Davis, son mm*' bert-Duder. _ , „ METROPOLITAN COMMITTEE. -'* ' The Metropolitan Committee met h_t night the Hon. E- Mitchelson presiato* Licenses were granted as foUowEr—-_r»l». ers: .T. Twohill. A. Langdon. C. W. C__ai«a, K. Herton, D. Bnnnatyne. Jockeys: A, Langdot. M. Deeble. V. Coleman. X i_al__. her, R. E. Brown. P. Brady. B. _«we. Jockey apprentice: Albert Whitaker. Gentle___ riders: F. P. Selby, A. ...C. Selbs, Alrltin Commons, J. Patterson. D. B. Garrle, Charles Wallace, and J. H. Johnston. Th« programme of the Avondale Jockey _tnl» for the season 1906-9 was passed. A-R.C. COMMITTEE. The following transfers were Bubnritbstt v. ana agreed to hy __c A.R.C Committee:— J. B. Beid to H. F. "Nlcoll. Santita; C _» ■*■: Pass to Patrick Smith. Snowfoot The _* port and balance-sheet to he presented at the atiTinHl meeting of members was nt nnd approved. Accounts H__onnt__ —> —SB '• were passed for payment.