WALLA WALLA INVITED

Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 12 April 1934, Page 3

WALLA WALLA INVITED

MATCH RACE AT DUNEDIN;. (By Telegrapn—Press Association.! DUNEDIN, April 11. A special meeting of the committee of the Forbury Park Trotting Club was held this afternoon for the purpose of discussing a proposal to invite Mr L. S. Martin to bring Walla Walla to Dunedin to participate in the club s winter meeting next month. ... ~ After some discussion, in which it was explained by Mr Barton that Mr Martin wa s prepared to bring his horse to Dunedin provided the race included, only those horses against which Walla Walla raced at Addington, it was decided to issue an invitation to Messrs. Martin and Hinds, owners of Walla Walla and Harold Logan respectively, to contest a special match race over one mile with a flying start on Saturday, May 5, the second day of the club’s forthcoming meeting, for a purse of £250, £l5O of which' would go to the winner and £IOO to the loser, with an’additional £SO to the horse which covered the distance in 2 min. or better. In the event of both horses qualifying for the additional money, the £SO would be equally divided between them.

CUP OFFERED FOR RECORD.

CHRISTCHURCH, April 11

A cup of the value of 100 guineas has been offered by Mr Arthur Rose, Christchurch, as representative of Bulloch, Lade and Company, Glasgow, to the owner of the first horse in New Zealand to break the Australian-New Zealand record of 2.2 2-5 for a mile made by Walla Walla at Sydney last year.