SPORTING.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 3 February 1923, Page 7

SPORTING.

-— * 1 NOTES ON' EGMONT ACCEPTANCES (By Maecenas.) ! The province of Taranaki has been favoured with much rain of late, and in consequence the Egmont Racing Club's race track is in better order to-day than at any other tune. This is a factor which will tend to favour good racing at the meeting on Wednesday and Thursday next. In the days of increased cost of travelling and accommodation, and racing clubs forced to reduce their prize money, it says much for the popularity of the Egmont meeting to find such a number of horses of good class engaged at the forthcoming meeting. The reducing of the distance of the Egmont Cup to IJ miles has evidently pleased owners, whom in the big majority of cases favour the shorter distance. For sentimental reasons many do ir:t like altering the distance and conditions of the principal handicap, but in the interest of the club it certainly looks as if the committee of the Egmont. Racing Club have done the right thing. Ti,a £„i.q «„„„™„,l :„ 4.v„ !?'_»« a ri.„_

The field engaged in the Egmont Cup fo be decided on Wednesday next are a remarkably good lot, and possibly a better class have not been brought together on the course. At present the race bears an open appearance, but ere Wednesday the weight of money may bring Kick Off or Sunart into most prominence. Solfanello was tried over a ten furlong course in the Grandstand Handicap decided on the last day of the Auckland summer meeting, but like his effort over a mile course in Australia, Sol fa nella did not appear to appreciate the latter part of the journey.