PATRIOTIC TROTTING MEETING

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 148, 24 June 1915, Page 8

PATRIOTIC TROTTING MEETING

•A popular attraction for lovers of trotting and those who are desirous of assisting the Wounded Soldiers' Fund is being provided at Petofte on Saturday in 'the shape of a patriotic trotting meeting. The meeting, which is being controlled by the Hutt Valley Trotting Club, will ,take place at the local Recreation Ground, and those who attend are assured of an excellent day's sport. ' The entries are satisfactory, and include such performers as Jewell Chimes, Fashionwood and Havoc. Further particulars will be found in. our advertising columns. ,'ln connection with the meeting the following handicaps have been declared : Wounded Soldiers' Handicap ; one mile. — Patch scr, Kitty, Miesie, Dinah, and Minnilyn ssec ; Laas, Mira, and Hover Wood, Bsec; Nipper and Slow Tom, lOsec ; Dominion, Tom, Trixie, and All Good, 13se<;. , Dardanelles Handicap ; one mile. — Dick G., scr. ; The Barm, 4eec ; Francis H., lOsec; Miss Pirate, Aleta Black, Revenge, 17sec ; Khandallah. Silver Steel, Patch, 20secj Minnilyn, Dinah, Kitty, 25sec ; Over Wood, Lass, Bellevue, 28 sec ; Omata and Trixie, 33sec. The handicaps for the Queen of the Carnival Handicap and Allies' Victory Handicap are sealed.

_ Messrs. Blake and Co. will sell by auction to-morrow, at their mart, 53, Lower Cuba-street, commencing at 1.30 p.m., gontentii of 75ooined^ Jioufle^