METROPOLITAN CLUB.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 127, 31 May 1935, Page 12

METROPOLITAN CLUB.

THE AUGUST PROGRAMME. SEVERAL ALTERATIONS MADE. (By Telegraph.—Special to "Star.") CHRISTCHURCH, this day. Th New Zealand Metropolitan Trotting Club have made several important alterations in the programme for tlieir August meeting. For some time past most of the classes have nad a limit at each end. In future these races will be for horses assessed to do certain times or faster, but a condition will be added that horses assessed to do two seconds slower than the times specified in their respective classes will be eligible to compete. The chief two-mile races in August will bo for horses assessed to do 4.20, 4.28 and 4.27, but horses assessed on 4.30 will be eligible to compete in the 4.29 class, which will be run on tlic first day. In the 4.28 class, which is included in the second day's programme, horses on the 4.29 mark may compete, and in the 4.27 class horses assessed at 4.28 may be entered. The slow class trotters' races, which have previously been the opening events on each day's programmes, have beeft

altered on the first and third days. The class for a mile and a half will be 3.36, but on the second day racing will begin with the two-mile event for trotters that are assessed at 4.51, but the limit will be 4.40. Three one-mile events will be included in the list. Two of them, with limits of 2.10 and 2.12, will be run in harness, and the other will be a saddle contest for horses assessed at 2.13 or faster. The stakes wiVt "oe the same as last year.