SPORTING ITEMS.
«' Weekly Press and Referee."' TROTTING TALK. [BY HO-TESTT.] The well-known performer, Native, has been so injured by getting entangled in wire that it is doubtful if ho will be seen on a track again. Interviewed recently, Mr Campbell, M.L.C. (Vie), said trotting could only be popularised and made pay through the agency of the totalisator. George Watson, the V.R.C. starter, on the other hand (says a Sydney paper), asserted that it would never catch on with the public. Trotting was only a butcher's game ! Doll changed hands while in Wellington at £50. B. Edwards has Little Hero and F.B. at Riccarton. The programme for the Plumpton Park R. and T.C.s Autumn Meeting takes place ou Saturday, March 14th. The sum of £280 is devoted to stokes, there being a saddle event and harness event each worth £50. Nomination day is February 29th. Berlin Abdallah is in work at the Forbury after a successful season at the Stud.
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Press, Volume LIII, Issue 9332, 5 February 1896, Page 2
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