TURF NOTES.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LV, Issue 13917, 20 March 1909, Page 4

TURF NOTES.

All the loose boxes in th& town> have been engaged by visiting trainers for the forthcoming meeting of the • Taranaki Jockey Club. The class of horso competing this year is above, the usual standard and there is every indication, of the fixture being the most successful J hel'd on the local coitrse. The acceptances are very satisfactory indeed and. good fields will be % the order throughout. N % . '' '- Paritutu has gone sore andt this na«* - prevented the veteran accepting . f^r the Taranaki Cjip. The same applies to Maniapoto. .> •, Among the acceptances for tjae l * lrsu Welter is the imported Pejrolina by the famous horse Persimmon' 6;ut of La Carolina. . ■ Nominations for the Patea Racing Club's Easter Monday meeting, to be held on the Hawera racecourse, close on Monday night, March 22, at 8 p.m. This is always a popular hack meeting, and the Club should be rewarded with record nominations. \ According to- the Wanganui Herald s sporting writer, one of the very best trotters in the Dominion at the present time is Albertrious, the property pit "A Tramp. Esq." ' „ " It is understood that the Wanganui Jockey Club's Autumn Meeting resufted m a profit of something like £1Q0Q...