TAHUNA PARK SPRING

Otago Witness, Issue 2849, 21 October 1908, Page 54

TAHUNA PARK SPRING

. lhe Tahuna Park Trotting Club hav©.lssued the programme *or their spring meeting:, and the stakes show an increaseof 180sovs over lasfr year, when 100C=o\s j were hung up in prizo money. At last I season's meeting- the club passed £9310 through the to(ali6a.tcr, and bearing in muirl that they Jia\o a substantial baLanco to their credit, it would not havo been astonishing- to find some of Ihe stakes being increased rather than bedn?r cut, as in tho case of the James Memorial and Domain Handicaps. There van increase in other events on the programme, and the fact that the club is contemplating a ohango of quarters may temporarily Salt ambition, but still cno cannot help .thinking' there is a non-progressive spirit in tho club. This year thp principal events are the Domain Handicap, of lOOsovs, 2 miles, 5.S claea; Stewards' Handicap (caddie), ofi 9030vb, 2 miles, 5.15 class; James Memorial ft of lOOsovs, 2 miles, 5.3 class; Publicans* Handicap (saddle), of 90=ov8, 2 miles, 5.12 ckea Other ov-on-te Are as follows: — Pony Handicap, of 35sove, 1£ miles; Trial Handicap, of 60sove, 2 miles; Amateur Handicap, of 40eovs, l£ miles ; Dutsh Handicap, of 50&ovg, 1 mile, 2.35 class; Musselburgh Handicap, of 75eovb, 2£ milee, 6.50 i claea (for trotters only) ; St. Kilda Handicap, of 50sove (saddle), 1 mile, 2.45 class j Pony, Handicap, of 3530v5, 14 joules; Ad«

■ranee Handicap, of 6Qaovß, li miles; Ama- f teur Handaeap, of 40sove, 2 miles; Electric Handicap, of 50 soys, 1 mile, 2.33 class ; Waverley Handicap, of 75sovs, 3 miles, 8.6 . class (for trotters only) ; Eeeovery, Handi-, cap, of 50eov8, 1 mile, 2.42 class. In [ addition to the above List of prizes tbe "•hrb again hang up a puree for a horse capable of- estefelieiiing' a tract record. Nominations close on November 14-.