DUNEDIN DESIRES
(Herald Special Service.)
The winter meeting of the Dunedin Jockey Club will be opened At VVingatui tomorrow and will be continued on Monday and concluded on the following Saturday. Dig fields will be paraded lomorrow and one race, the Trial Stakes, with a total of 40 acceptors. will hayc to be run in two dirisions. The long-established Dunedin Steeplechase has a field of 14, mostly from Otago and Southland, and the Otago Hurdles will be contested by 16 horses, while the chief flat event, the Birthday Handicap, has a field of 17, including four from Riecarton. There has hern some rain in (he district this week and the track is likely to be in its usuual winter condition, but not as heavy as in some recent years. The betting will be under the win-and-place system. The following horses arc likely to he well supported:— TAJ! UN A HACK & HUNTERS' STEEPLECHASE. l-irsl Out, Paladeo, Ballvaggan. TRIAL STAKES.—First Division: Beaugency, Don't Listen. Second Division: The Turk. Subtraction. OTAGO HURDLES. Lishecn, Sphere. John Gay. BRIGHTON HACK HANDICAP.— Lilli Marlene, Money Lender, Bright News. OTAGO CENTENNIAL STEEPLECHASE.— Double Light, Kiltie, Eleanor Star. BIRTHDAY HANDICAP- Joygiver, Dark Arrow, Ealconbridge. UINTgU HANDlCAP—Theocritus, Haughty Dick, Bath Slipper. ST. CLAIR HACK HANDICAP.— String Band, Detract, Volomai.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22655, 4 June 1948, Page 8
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