DUNEDIN NOTES.
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: 1 ' December ISfch. There are eight entries for the Maori Kaik Plate, which i* the principal event to be decided at fcbeKalk races on Boxing Day :and Mr Dowse has allotted the top weight ol Ost Sib to Forest EinK; Trapper who comes next pa the list having; Bat Vlb put against his name. For the Hurdles, however, Trapper leads the list with lOst 121b $ Winifred, With 9st 61b, has top weight in the District Handicap. The trotting events at the Toko* mairiro races on Boxing Day.have secured good nominations, fifteen horses, being entered for the Three mile Trot and nineteen for the Two mile; but there are poor fields of indifferent quality for the Bntce Handicap and Milburn Handicap. There are only five nominations for the former—namely, Galtee, Gazelle, Dunville, Belief, ana Ladyßell—a,ndi the following eight have been nominated for die Milbvtrn'BandicaD:—Galtee, Assyrian Kirig, - Dunvflle, Cinnabar, Crossbow, Laoffley, Shlfnal, and DaTrop. For the Cromwell annual meeting the weights are'out for the first day. Windsor, with lOst, is placed at the height of a field of BIX |n tile Grand Stand Handicap; ShP Julius naa 9sllolb, and the other four are local horses. Windsor U also at the head of affairs in the Flying Handicap, in which he is asked to carry lOst 21b. Caliph, with lOst 121b, is placed ahead of live otkers in the Hurdles, and Ruby b put on scratch in the Trotting Handicap, in wbj«h twenty-two other horaes (most of them hprsoe that have only a local reputation and all of them having tha usual cemnion-place names) are engaged. . Entries ~c!ose on Friday nlgnt for the priocipal ©vents to be decided »t the waikoaaitd Baces on the 2nd January. There as* thirteen aoni'inations for the Hawkebiuy HsQdiCap, flL'teen for the Trofc, and dx &r the district Htodlcap, while "the ten have been nominated ior the Waikouaiei: €?ttp;— Lelasfear. Loap G&rou, Foreafc Kins. Qari&aldi t Chadlelgh, The Drujd,' Bofleld, Svreep» end Freemason*
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Press, Volume XLVIL, Issue 7741, 22 December 1890, Page 2
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