OUR TARANAKI LETTER.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume II, Issue 88, 31 March 1892, Page 6

OUR TARANAKI LETTER.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) New Plymouth, March 24. The Oeo Racing Club have received excellent nominations for their Hack Meeting, which will be played out on April 6th. There are 15 in the Hurdles, 14 Flying, 10 Oeo Handicap, and 17 Pihama Stakes. With a good handicap and fine weather the club should come out with a good surplus. Taranaki is credited with being the home of “ the turf wind-bag,” a class of men who are decidedly objectionable. This may be true, but I think Auckland can run us pretty close, considering the language and general conduct of an Auckland racing man while travelling recently from Wanganui to New Plymouth. There are some gents (?) whose association with the turf degrades rather than elevates “ the sport of kings.” They want weeding out. J. Rae, the trainer for Mr. Bobbett, passed through here with Morion, on Tuesday last, on his way home from Hawke’s Bay. The stable apparently didn’t think much of their chance at Taranaki, as they shipped the big son of Captivator home the same night. Fraternity is all to pieces I hear, and will therefore not run again this season. Mr. Wilson has had hard luck with the colt this year, as the son of the Dauphin —Sissie has never been well since the racing season began.

With a good wintering the colt will be about next season. ~ I notice that the resolution of the Dunedin Jockey Club offering a £lO reward for the conviction of “bookies” laying totalisator odds, has caused a flutter among the weilders of the magic pencil. The Dunedin Jockey Glub appear to me to have been rather hasty in their action.