SOUTHLAND NOTES.
(From Our Own Correspondent.)
The Southland Racing Club are negotiating for the purchase of a piece of land containing about 130 acres situated on the East road, near to Invercargill, for making a new racecourse and training track. If the purchase is effected, and I believe there is every probability that it will be, the club expect to be able to hold their meetings there this summer instead of at Myross Bush, as heretofore. It will be a great boon to trainers residing in Invercargill to have a training track so conveniently near to town. The want of such a track has been a great hindrance to tho development of racing here.
May King has not yet been sold, therefore he is still with us. Though he is admittedly the best racehorse we have in Southland, I think his owner, through unpleasant experiences with his late trainer, J. Lawson, is pretty well full up of racing, and if he does not sell him he will uso May King for stud purposes. The strain of blood this horse possesses on both sire and darn's side, considered with his own performances on the turf, should ensure for him a successful season.
The final meet of the Birchwood hounds takes place at Mr C. Henderson's homestead at Heddon Bush to-day (Wednesday). We have no Hunt Club Steeplechase meeting here, but the programme of the Southland Amateur Turf Club meeting on the 21st September provides two or three events for our hunters and other jumping horses.
Messrs M'Kay Bros., at Riverton, have Tally-ho and Seaward for private sale. Tally-ho, by Golden Butterfly, has carried the huntsman or whip at most of tho runs this season with the Birchwood hounds, and is now in training for tho Amateur September meeting. He, like nearly nil of the Butterflies, is a real good and safe jumper. Lady Ellen (a Totara mare) dropped a fine filly foal by Seaward last week. This is the first thoroughbred foal in Southland I have heard of this season. There are no youngsters due by tho Southland Stud Company's horses Lorraine and Ike until next month.
Parvula (by Aprcmont) is heavy in foal to Seaward.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2008, 18 August 1892, Page 28
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