THE WEEKLY NEWS
SPOUTING FEATURES
EPSOM TROTTING PROSPECTS THE NEW MILITARY TRAINING Followers of racing and trotting will find the sporting pages of the current' issue of The Weekly News, on sale to-day, a complete guide to the form of horses competing throughout the country 011 Saturday and Monday. Reviews of the Ileitis for the first day of the Auckland Trotting Club's Spring Meeting at Epsom and of the Wellington Racing Club's meeting at Irentham arc prominent features. An account of notable happenings connected with the running of the New Zealand Cup, together with a page of photographs of prominent candidates in this year's contest, is a further feature of the racing pages. The only classic win of King George V., that gained by Scuttle in the One Thousand Guineas at Newmarket in 1928, is described by Joe Childs, formerly first jh.ckey to tho Royal stables, in the scyiond instalment of his memoirs which are appearing exclusively in fnE Weekly News. "Military training is not what it used to be," writes a correspondent describing activities witnessed at the Northern Military District School, Narrow Neck, last week. His account of tho care that is taken to gain tho interest .and study the comfort of recruits shows that increased efficiency and enthusiasm will result from tho new methods adopted. The history and associations of St. John's College. Auckland, are narrated in another o) this week's special articles. Topics illdstrated in the pictorial supplement include the visit of H.M.S. Leander to Dunedin, racing at limaru, Masterton and Randwick, and musterinjr scenes on North Island sheep stations.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22864, 20 October 1937, Page 20
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