Sporting.

Cromwell Argus, Volume XXXVII, Issue 1987, 7 May 1906, Page 5

Sporting.

(By Peeping Tom.)

The programme is now issued for the Central Otago Trotting Meeting to be held at the Matakanui Racecourse on the 24th May. There is every promise of a good day’s sport, and there’s likely to be good entries, from what I have heard. Herb. Mountney arrived in Cromwell last week, and he brought a couple of trotters with him. In conversation with him he said he was up for a trip as much as anything, and was glad to get away from the rain for a while. He intends waiting for the trotting meeting, and will start his horses there. 1 do not think be has anything very fast this time, but he will not waste time with a bad one. Jack Perriam has Georgie M. in hand for the meeting also, and if she would only go kindly, she should pick up a stake at the meeting. The well-known sport of Ophir, Mr W. Paul, is leaving there shortly to settle on a farm he has purchased at Moa Flat. The residents of the district are tendering him a farewell social at Omakau on Wednesday night. The appeal made by Mr M. H. Dawson against the decision of the Timaru Club in disqualifying him and his mare First Pet last month has been decided in favor of Mr Dawson. His many friends here will be pleased that he has been able to prove that he was not guilty of the charge of “ crooked running.”