GREYMOUTH RACES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18696, 30 April 1924, Page 6

GREYMOUTH RACES.

CHANGE OF DATE WANTED. [BY TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION.] GREYMOUTH. Tuesday. The Grey Jockey Club has applied for permission to ch;.\nge the date of its meeting till Saturday, owing to the Omoto course being under water. CANTERBURY NOTES. Escort won the chief ©vent in tho second day of the New Zealand Metropolitan Trotting Club's Meeting by a narrow margin after a good performance. There see-mat. an idea abroad however fib at he is not a champion, and 1 understand he could have been bought very cheaply be&re the race. .To-day he was offered at auction, but bidding wan very dull, and he was passed in at less than 200gns. _ , The Auckland trottor Poter Dean registered a brilliant performance on Wednesday when he covered two miles in 4m 34 I-5s and then was beaten. He was very unlucky as he improved nearly on his handicap. Hypo paced another great raoe at Addington on Wednesday, and he now looks a possibility for cup company. Dick Dillon made his opponents look common in the mile saddle race at Addinaton on Wednesday, coming away by himself in the last furlong . , Nikora finished fourth :n the I rotters race on the first day at Addington. but when he won on Wednesday he showed marvellous improvement, which would have justified an explanation being asked just to satisfy the public.