PLANS FOR ROME
Great Northern Hurdles
The farm-trained gelding Rome, winner of the Thompson Hack Handicap at Hokitika on Monday, may go to Ellerslie for the Great Northern Hurdles in June. Rome has struck good form on the West Coast lately, and has won four races from his last five starts. His owner-trainer, F. Dudley, expects him "to do best as a hurdler. ,
.“There.isno fesceiatheAtsriu district that Rome cannot lump,” Dudley said. He intends to give the Pictavia gelding a brief spell lefore racing him at Omoto and Nelson next month.
Rome revels in soft going, and muddy winter tracks are not expected to trouble him.
Dudley said he was pleased with the way Rome handled the righthand Hokitika track. There is a right-hand track at Ellerslie.
MOTUKARARA STAKES
The Banks Peninsula Racing Club will distribute £2050, not £1750, in stakes for its meeting on March 7.
Stakes have been reduced by £325 on the £2375 offered last year.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28823, 18 February 1959, Page 5
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