MARTON JOCKEY CLUB
■WINTER MEETING PROGRAMME. The Marton Jockey Club has made a departure from its usual custom of holding two days racing in the spring and two days in the summer. This year the club decided to hold one day in September and two days in January and to hold the fourth day on Saturday, May 4th, which meeting will open the steeplechase season in the Dominion. A very attractive programme has been drawn up for the May meeting, the chief event being an open steeplechase of £3OO, 24 miles. Thfe open flat events are the Crofton Handicap, of £260, 1J miles, and the Flying Handicap of £2OO, 6 furlongs. The hacks are well catered for, there being the Dash Hack Handicap of £l5O, five furlongs; Winter Hack Handicap of £175, 1 mile and 137 yards, and the Farewell Hack Handicap of £l5O, 6 furlongs. In addition there is an Open Handicap Hurdles of £175, 14 miles. Only seven events will be held and th* first race willy start at 11.45 a.m. Nominations for all events will close with the secretary (Mr. A .Way) at Marton, on Tuesday, April 16th, at 9 p.m. from whom programmes may be obtained on application.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6884, 13 April 1929, Page 5
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