SPORTING.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13920, 3 June 1909, Page 3

SPORTING.

MRETING AT AUCKLAND. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, June 2. There seems promise of iine weather for the inauguration of the Great Northern race meeting at Ellerslie tomorrow. It is anticipated that the Held fer the Great Northern Hurdle Race will number ten. Paritutu has been an absentee from the Ellershe track for the last couple of days, but was worked elsewhere. TROTTING ASSOCIATION. CHRISTCHURCH, June 2. A meeting of the New Zealand Trotting Association was held this alternooiK The Victorian Trotting Association wrote statins that it considered it would hardly be satishictorv to ileal bv correspondence, with the* suhiects which it had suggested should be discussed at a conference, between the governing bodies of New 'Zealand. New South Wales and Victoria It was prenared to waive the suggestion that delegates should bind their respective Associations. In regard to the American standard the Victorian A£sociation expressed tha

opinion that it was too severe tor Australasia. be.eral other subjects were susgest-d fer discussion. Jim president" said he thought that if such a conference was to be held New Zealand was the place for it, and the. date of the trotting conference m Julv ,mi<dit prove a suitable time, it was" decided to write to New South AVales and Victoria to that effect, suggesting that if July was too early the conference might be held in Christchurch during August.