PROPOSED CLUB AT THE KUROW

Otago Witness, Issue 2467, 26 June 1901, Page 51

PROPOSED CLUB AT THE KUROW

A number of trotting enthusiasts in the Kurow district have decided to form a trotting club. They have procured a suitable ground -to lay out a track, and if their present ideas are brought -to fruition some decent stakes will be distributed at their first day's racing. One of the "promoters informs me that the proposed track will be a half a mile in circumference, and its formation will be started at once. Permission must be applied for affiliation to the Trotting Association at Christchurch, and a copy of the proposed programme also sent. What might assist the club in laying out the track is the following simple method, -which is frequently used in laying out racing aiid private training tracks : — For a, half-mile track, the directions are as follows : Lay off two straight sides 600 ft each side (parallel), and 452 ft 6in" apart, connected at each end with a perfect semi-circle (radius 226 ft 3in), place your fence exactly upon a line as found (which is the inside of your track), and your track will measure exactly a mile 3ft from thS' fence : the outside fence to be placed according to the width of the track desired. If not convenient to obtain an engineer to run the curves it can be done as follows: Place a centre stake midway between the parallel straight sides at each end ; take a wire with a loop at the end loose enough to turn upon the stake ; measure upon this wire 226 ft 3in. the radius of the curves, which from the centre stake will exactly reach the end of the straight lines ; then describe your semicircle beginning at the end of one straight side, and putting down a stake every 12ft, if that is the 'length of the fence panels desired. Regarding the amount of ground required, you must be guided by the lay of the land. Fourteen or 15 acres will be sufficient.