PONY AND GALLOWAY CLUB.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVII, Issue 133, 12 June 1909, Page 6

PONY AND GALLOWAY CLUB.

The V.'ellington Pony and Galloway Baring Club has decided to hold a meeting at P.firamar on 22rid July, the day following the big Steeplechase at Trentham. An attractive programme of five ©vents will ba submitted, the principal stako bein<* the July Handicap of 40 soys, run over a Fix-iurlong course. The other events, full particulars of which appear in onv advertising columns,^.are : Maided Handicap, 20 toys, for Korses and gallowajs that have never won a ra^e ; Advance Handicap, 20 soys, for ponies 14.2 and under ; Epsom Handicap, 20 soys, for ponies 14.3 and under; and Cambridge Handicap, 25 soys, for ponies and galloways. Nominations close with "Mr. T. 31. dimming on Wednesday, 7th July, .it 3 p.m., and weights are due on Saturday, , 10th July. The vast discrepancy between the ( number of football enthusiasts and that of volunteers was the subject of a tellkig plea for compulsory training by Captain Petheriok, at last night's smoke concert of the D Battery. He said that the sight of a large crowd who merely look on, or jeer, at a football match always made him think of the few who can be found to join the ranks of the defence force, and constituted, in his opinion, a justification for compulsory training. He referred to a class of onlookers at volunteer parades, who merely jeer at the military uniforms and their wearers. Amid vociferous applause, Captain Petherick stated that such loafers were in a very short time to be compelled to wear the very uniforms that were the object of their con- % tempt— and he thanked Gpd for the promise -h»vrsfw-in tho future.