Sporting Notes.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 238, 22 December 1888, Page 3

Sporting Notes.

[By Willow.] Although exception may be taken at the allotment of money in connection with the annual meeting of the P.B.T.C-, still it must be admitted that they have scored big points. Probably in no part of New Zealand, the population being considered, has such a programme been issued. Nine hundred and thirty pounds in given money has certainly attracted to the “ bankrupt hoi© ” (it has been termed so) the creme de la creme of New Zealand racehorses, the individual merits of which will in due course appear, It is always pleasing to give mzrit where it is due, and to those conerned in the biggest racing carnival the Bay has yet seen, or to put it more correctly, has yet to see, the greatest praise is due. . My Boxing Day tips are at present : — Maiden 'Plate . Impostor; Boxing Day Handicap : Deceiver ; Hurdles : Darnley ; Flying Handicap : Audacity. The sale of privileges, which takes place to-day, should be greatly .enhanced by the fact] that natives innumerable have, and are arriving for grass-seed cutting. It is well known that the dusky sportsmen of the East Coast are ardent lovers of racing, and invariably have money to spend at this time of year.