HAMILTON RACING CLUB.

Waikato Times, Volume 96, Issue 15359, 6 October 1923, Page 6

HAMILTON RACING CLUB.

THE NOVEMBER MEETING. AN ATTRACTIVE PROGRAMME. The progress which racing has reached in this important area of the province is testified to in a very prominent manner by the programme which the Hamilton Racing Club has issued for its two days’ meeting which will be conducted on the Claudelands Course on Saturday and Monday, November 10 and 12. The stakes reach 4450 sovs., no race being of a less value than 200 sovs. There is an increase in the value of the Cup race and the principal Steeplechase, the latter being transferred to the second day. The events for two-year-olds have been retained on the programme, and it is trusted that the executive’s endeavours to cater for the young brigade of thoroughbred will be responded to in a measure which will encourage the club to move even further in this direction. Hacks, handicap horses, hurdlers and steeplechasers have received merited consideration on a programme which should draw wide attention/from owners and provide racing of a quality which will attract and' maintain extensive public patronage. For the first day the principal event is the Hamilton Cup, a handicap event of ToO sovs., which will be decided over a mile and a-half. Turning atten-

tion to the sprinters, it is found that they have been well provided in the six furlongs’ Cambridge Handicap, which carries 400sovs. in stake money. The public always express approval of cross-country displays, and their needs will be supplied by the Held in the Waikato Hack and Hunters’ Steeplechase, of a journey of about 21 miles. The Waimai Handicap Hurdles (11 miles) and the Tamahere Stakes (a five furlongs event for two-year-olds) are attractive items on the card,'along with the Trial'Handicap, 6 furlongs; Hautapu Hack Handicap. 1 mile; and Claudelands Hack Handicap, 7 furlongs. On the second day the Waikato Handicap will be the principal open race, and as it carries a 500 sovs. prize there should be a good-quality field to contest the mile and a-quarter. The class sprinters are catered for in the Kirikiriroa Handicap, of 300 sovs. (six furlongs), and the Clarkin Steeplechase, of 300 sovs., will test the crosscountry horses over a distance of three miles. The Ruakura Stakes is the day’s two-year-old flutter, over five furlongs, while the Matangi Hurdles (If miles) will present the competition over the light timbers. The Frankton Handicap (7 furlongs), Taupiri Hack Handicap (7 furlongs), and Tauwhare Hack Handicap (1 mile) are also included on the day’s card.

The two days’ programme warrants very strong support from owners, and the prospects' are that such will be chronicled at the closing of nominations with the secretary, Mr E. 11. O’Meara, or with Mr C. F. Mark at Auckland, by 5 o’clock on the evening of Friday, October 19.