NOTES BY MASTER M'GRATH.
Mr S. Barton forwards a list of Oamaru fixtures. Other secretaries who care to have their dates recorded in these columns are invited to follow suit. , Several trials were run at the Forbury last Friday afternoon. The season opens so far as the Dunedin Plumpton is concerned on Friday and Saturday of this week. Mr Ross is to be judge and Mr Henderson slipper. The first pair will be slipped at 11 o'clock sharp on Friday and at 12.30 on Saturday. Two rounds of the Leger and one round of the.Cup will be taken on the first day; and if all pay up there will be 56 courses on Friday and 30 on Saturday. Thefirflt escapes have been blocked up underneath so as to stop the dogs getting through, and some 12m drain pipes have been laid bo as to give the
"hares a better show. It was noticed last season that the- hares often took to the pipes that were then there. I expect a good meeting. There are dogs from Christchurch, Oamaru, ■Ashburton, Invercargill, and Winton to meet the 'local ones, and the hares are well trained. The admission fee is 2s 6d, a figure at which Plumptoncoursing cannot be enjoyed anywhere out of New Zealand. At a meeting held at Timaru on Saturday night it was decided to make an active effort to revire the sport of coursing, and with that end, arrangements are made to run off stakes on the 2nd June. ' From Auckland I learn of the death of Welcome Jack, sire of Sailor boy, Snowball, and Blue Cap. Welcome Jack was from imported stock.
NOTES BY MASTER M'GRATH.
Otago Witness, Issue 1994, 12 May 1892, Page 26
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