MANAWATU RACING CLUB

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 105, 6 May 1931, Page 6

MANAWATU RACING CLUB

WINTER FIXTURE

: (By Telepraplt.) (Special to "The Evening Post") PALMEKSTON'N., This Day. The Manawatu Club has now been officially advised that both the Minister of Internal Affairs and the Racing Conference have agreed to 22nd and 23rd. July as the dates of the Winter Meeting of the local club. The fixture -will thus follow hard on the heels of the Trentharn Meeting,.and-'-'should consequently be an added.,;inducement for owners and traineraito' comeyfriom^afield. / : Ata'meeting of'tlie committee-on Moriday.eyemng. a\programme was* drawn up andi which' has been sent forward to the Wangahui;/District Committee for approyal.;; Tlie.: ; sum of •.£2125 in stakes is to be .offered1 as compared with the £2400 p offered; twelve -months ago—a' very satisfactory figure;' The' Autumn Stepelechase, of vthreejmaes;-.and the Clifford Handicap>; of bfle"'"and a 'quarter miles, are the two : principal ■ events to come up for deciaioa 'on "the "opening day,: the former carrying'a stake value of. £250, and the latter . ojife; of • £200. Otf the second . day there will'be :the r Open Hurdles, of one and three-cjuarter miles, for a £200 stake, and: the--Newbury Handicap, a.nine-fur-long event; for a stake of £175. ' Tho following officials were appointed:— Handicapper, Mr. J. B. Henrys; judge, Mr". W. P, Kiissell; starter, Mr. W-. C. Price;,,:clerk of scales, Mr. W. Ilandell; clerk of course, Mr. j. J. Waller; timekeeper, Mr. P. F. O'Connor; honorary surgeons, Dr. Putnam and Mr, D. S. Wylie; honorary veterinary-surgeon, Mr. R. H. Meade.