GREYMOUTH TROTTING CLUB

Grey River Argus, 25 October 1915, Page 5

GREYMOUTH TROTTING CLUB

♦ SPRING MEETING COMMENCES TO-DAY.

The Greymouth Trotting Club's spring meeting commences at Victoria Park to-day (Labour Day), and it is quite safe to predict a record meeting. The acceptances are most satisfactory, and inelu.de no less than 30 visiting horses. Sixteen Canterbury horses arrived on Thursday evening aii~ another batch of 21 by Saturday evening's ex. press, so that the prospects, -ym a racing point of view have hardly, if ever, been equalled before, and we have never had a visit from so many high-class performers at one time. The most Striking feature of the acceptances is the quality of horses competing in the Labour Day Handicap of 1* miles ((3.47 class), which promises to. provide one of the most interesting races ever seek on the Victoria Park. The scratch horse, Bonification, has a record of 3.33, whereas the present track record is only 3,36, so that pat. Rons can rely on seeing a great go in this race. Makomoka, who .established a three-year-old track record last Christmas, receives 2secs from Boni. flcation, and with Lady Poole (3secs), Rotorua (S3), Peony (4), and Lucy Wallace (4) as pace makers, it is quite safe to say that the winner will have to establish a new record for the 1} miles. Each of the other seven, events is sure to prove of a high-class nature.