THE OTAGO HUNT CLUB MEETING

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22353, 29 August 1934, Page 13

THE OTAGO HUNT CLUB MEETING

The weather was quite warm and .sum-mer-like at Wingatui yesterday morning, following a light. frost overnight.' A fairly large number of horses, worked on the inside grass track next to the plough track, and others were allotted exercise on the schooling, course.; The going was on the heavy side,,, and very , little fast work took place. ’ Oscglate was allotted half-pace work. He looks a bit on the light side after his recent racing at Riccarton. Grand'Finale got through a useful task of steady pacing. Ventrac and Saxophone strode over a sound working gallop and finished together, at the end of six furlongs.. Saxophone went well; and Ventrac appears to have thrown off the soreness he. exhibited during the Grand National meeting. Master Anomaly and Silver Lark gal-, loped five furlongs together but were not fully extended. Lycidns (Ingram) was schooled -over three flights of hurdles and shaped fairly well for a novice. Others that got through useful tasks included Meadow Lark, Braw Lad. Queen Tractor, Sungem, Flying Amy, Dismiss, Queen of Song, Bellbird, Supertonic. Motukarakara, and a few more that got through unimportant tasks. The horses , trained by F. Shaw arid G. Fielding did not appear on the course during the morning. : ' 1 1 RACING IN FAIRYLAND Racing in fairyland, or the Grand Prix by night. . . . This wag Longchamps when the first floodlit race meeting, which was also one of the great, social, events of the - Paris season, was held in,view of a crowd such as that famous course in the Bois de Boulogne has rarely seen before. It was a scene of brilliance unequalled anywhere in the world, says an English. paper.. It was Monte Carlo, Deauville,. Paris, and Ascot combined, with a dash of India, Japan, and even Hawaii to make up this cosmopolitan medley. The men were in evening .dress, and the women wearing a variety of gowns that could not possibly be displayed at the most select of daytime race meetings. Imagine the wonderful course—even the democratic pelouse (public enclosure) —bathed in soft diffused lights in the cool of a summer evening; thousands of diners sitting down to * gala dinner; dancing to soft music on eight dance floors, between the races; the horses flashing along the brilliantly lighted track, with the progress of each racp easier to watch than in daylight; the corps de ballet of the Paris Opera House dancing on the green sward before the President of the Republic after the last race at nearly 1 o'clock in the morning; • and the climax one of the most elaborate firework displays that Paris has seen.