FIRST WINTER FIXTURE

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 637, 13 April 1929, Page 11

FIRST WINTER FIXTURE

MARTON’S PROGRAMME

The Marton Jockey Club has made a departure from its usual custom of holding two days’ racing in the spring and two days in the summer. This year the club decided to hold one day in September and two days in January and to hold the fourth day on Saturday, May 4, which meeting will open the steeplechase season in the Dominion. A very attractive programme has been drawn up for the May meeting, the chief event being an open steeplechase of £300; two and a-half miles. The open flat events are the Crofton Handicap of £260, one and a-quarter miles, and the Flying Handicap of £2OO, six furlongs. The hacks are well catered for, there being the Dash Hack Handicap, of £l5O, five furlongs, Winter Hack Handicap, of £175, one mile and 137 yards, and the Farewell Hack Handicap of £ 150, six furlongs. In addition there is an Open Handicap Hurdles of £ 175, one and a-half miles. Only seven events will be held and the first race will start at 11.45 a.m. Nominations for all events will close with the secretary, Mr. A. Way, at Marton, on Tuesday, April 16, at 9 p.m., from whom programmes may be obtained on application.