DISTRICT JOTTINGS.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1095, 24 February 1893, Page 24

DISTRICT JOTTINGS.

According to the Wairarapa Star the training track on the Opaki racecourse has been put into thoroughly good order for the March meeting, having been ploughed and harrowed, under the supervision of the club’s custodian, Mr W. Millar.

Mr Toswill, solicitor, of Pahiatua, has been in Wellington during the last few days, and on Wednesday last interviewed the stewards of the Wellington Racing Club as the delegate of the newly formed Pahiatua Jockey Club on the subject of the Metropolitan Club’s refusal to pass the club’s programme. Mr Toswill used many arguments urging the Metropolitan stewards to reconsider their decision, and representing the hardship which would be involved if the expenditure which the Club had incurred in making a course about £250 were thrown away. He also stated that they had been informed in a semi-official manner that there would be no difficulty about the programme being passed. Eventually consideration of the matter was postponed. Onr readers will be glad to learn that Mr W.E. Bid will’s good little hack Donovan who went wrong after the last Wairarapa Meeting and was not expected to raca again, has quite recovered and is now doing good work at his owner's place, Pibautea. His ailment, which was at fust difficult to diagnose turned out to bo a very bad ccrn in one of his feet. By careful treatment this was completely removed and the horse is now perfectly sound and will probably be a performer at the approaching Wairarapa and Wellington meetings.