(From our Special Reporter.)
This meeting, which closei the racing * fixtures in the Province for the. season, .^y was run off here on Wednesday and I Thursday. The sports were good, but "the attendance limited. There was, however, a fair sprinkling of the Dune* dfa sporting gents, who nearly monopolised the betting on events. Stewards :— Thomas Lewis, Esq., R. W.'CapstiotvEsqvJ. Macfarlane, Esq., T. Bradley, Esq., G. W. Langley, Esq., J. Stevenson, Esq., G. Coombe., Esq. "Jttdge'-^W. "J/ Byer, Esq." Starter:— G. W. Ijangley) Esq. f Clerk of the Course ;— Hugh M'Master, Esq. The course was. heavy on account of late rain. This* however, suited' some of their "poor feet," and gave the mud larks a! fair chdncel > . < > ■ The ball was set -in motion by a large field facing the starter for the Maiden Plate, which ended in Welcome cantering in, hands down, to the astonishment of the backers of Yetminater, who started a"hotun." .. ;
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Tuapeka Times, Volume I, Issue 13, 9 May 1868, Page 2
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