WANGANUI LETTER.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume II, Issue 56, 20 August 1891, Page 4

WANGANUI LETTER.

(from our own correspondent.)

The fee for training on the Wanganui racecourse has been raised, the prices now standing being £z for racehorses and £i for hacks. The Wanganui Jockey Club have decided to hold their "Spring Meeting on Thursday and Friday, 22nd and 23rd October. Fraternite, who is engaged in the New Zealand Cup at 6st 11 lb, is being supported for that event by local backers, and I believe our 'local knights of the pencil have already laid him to the full extent of their book. Judging by his two-year-old running, he should have a good say in this event. The training ground fees of the Wanganui Jockey Club for last season amounted to the sum of £5l 10s. William Henry George, who is well known on this coast, has arrived in Wanganui with a view of taking charge of Mr. H- Caddy’s horses, viz., She, Mirabelle, and others. These horses have lately been in charge of F. Bolton. Nominations for all handicap races at the Rangitikei Hunt Steeplechase Meeting closed on Monday, August 17th, at 9 p.m. Applications for the position of handicapper to the Egmont Racing Club for the ensuing season close on Friday, September nth. The salary is 10 guineas per day’s racing. All applications to be addressed to Mr. A. E. Brett, secretary Egmont Racing Club. The Wanganui Jockey Club have drawn up a first-class programme for their Spring Meeting. The card contains different events, and as the Derby will be run for at this meeting for the first time in the spring, the Club should have a very successful gathering, as they have bestowed prizes with a very liberal hand. The following are the events :—first day —Spring Handicap of 60 sovs., 1 mile and a distance; First Handicap Hurdle Race of 100 sovs., 2 miles and a distance ; Hack Hurdles of 25 sovs., if miles ; Wanganui Derby of 200 sovs , miles, Welter Handicap of 50 sovs., 1 mile; Handicap Hack Race of 25 sovs., one mile and a distance; and Flying Handicap of 50 sovs., f- mile. Second day—Trial Stakes of 60 sovs., f mile ; Second Handicap Hurdles of 80 sovs.,

2 miles and a distance ; Hack Hurdles of 25 sovs., 11 miles ; Wanganui Stakes Handicap of 200 sovs., second horse 25 sovs., i£ miles; Hack Race, 25 sovs., f mile; Castlecliff Stakes of 60 sovs., 1 mile and a distance ; and Consolation Handicap of 40 sovs. Nominations close on September 15th at 9 p.m. for the following events: —Spring Handicap 1 sov., First Handicap Hurdles 1 sov., Steward's Stakes 1 sov., Flying Handicap 1 sov., Trial Stakes 1 sov., Second Hurdles 1 sov., Wanganui Stakes isov., and Castlecliff Stakes 1 sov. Weights to be declared Tuesday, 28th Sept.