The Trotting Race at the Show.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 5300, 17 August 1888, Page 3

The Trotting Race at the Show.

[TO THE KDITOK.]

SlB _I wish to (haw tlic attention of the A and P Society to one of the events on thrU- programme, viz.; the trotting race Thin year ttao r« i« l» be * Handicap, and J would liki ro know how they are gumg to Wli.-iiP n '"t of llorß V s ' who - s " p<! , '"" mincoa urn unknown to then, A Immheap U riltlit cnoujjh in pliw;« hko JJunwhn, &0., W hero the Uotlinß .tbihtics ol mo,t of the J.orsuM uro known, but it _ib dilterciit in Hawko'B Bay. Not knowing any ot the "* horsoH, it will bo irnpoesiblo tor the comniittPti to frame a decent handicap. Why nt linvo a handicap according to height, the Mim« as in the pony race, and tlion it woulcl «ivc a pony a better chow with a 6ww. llie first prize is£ /, the second £3° and the entrance £1.1 think it w absurd £ ' !t Hk anyone to pay £1 entrance fco tor a £7 prizo and then very probably have his tl handicapped out of it. I Ujuik tho Socii'tv would iittvaut n fuv lavgei 1 .■lα n , Shad .i nomination f,e of five »hi ings Han acceptance fee of five or ton h ..lhngH. I n know of eUral people who "won M en ci if thete was a low nomination fee, but Mho do not care to pay "ml then, perhaps •Lfter the handicap came out, only to ha c "■out a 100 to 1 Show. Hoping the bociety tvUl <'ivo tho matter their consideration, and foi;tre Sp; on your valuable space,— - un - i NTENWNC} CoMi'ETiTOn.