OUR TARANAKI LETTER
(from our own correspondent.) [by wire.]
New Plymouth, May 30. The jumpers Couranto, Somnambulist and Commotion and the flat racer Stranger arrived here to-night and will be shipped North tomorrow night. Glenelg will not be taken up, as he is bad. The local horses Flukem, Durus and Skutcher will also be shipped to-morrow night. & May 31.
Flukem will not be taken North on account of a knock he received in the Bell Block Steeples. Moonlight will go North for the Selling Steeples. There are over 130 nominations for the Egmont Hack Sires’ Produce Stakes. Gipsy King is represented by 30, Sou’wester 15, Foulshot 12, Flintlock 10, Puriri 10, Cap-a-pie 9, Natator, Somnus and Tim| Whiffier 5 each. The Australian 4, and the rest under the last number.
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New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume II, Issue 97, 2 June 1892, Page 6
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130OUR TARANAKI LETTER New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume II, Issue 97, 2 June 1892, Page 6
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