BAY OF PLENTY JOCKEY CLUB.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume III, Issue 131, 26 January 1893, Page 8

BAY OF PLENTY JOCKEY CLUB.

Judging by the acceptances and entries received and by the interest evinced in Auckland and .Tauranga sporting circles, racing in Tauranga under the auspices of the Bay of Plenty Jockey Club is this year likely to “ boom ” once more. And we Aucklanders would be glad to see it do so, for the Tauranga people are real good sportsmen, and many an Aucklander and many a Southerner too —myself among the latter—have pleasant recollections of a day or two’s stay in Tauranga, where, I can assure my readers, you can get, what to an epicure is a luxury, the best fish breakfast procurable

in New Zealand, or, with the exception of Geelong (another place of which I have similar pleasant recollections), I might say throughout the whole of the Australasian colonies. Tauranga is, like Nelson and Geelong perhaps, somewhat of a “ Sleepy Hollow,” but there are some pretty surroundings to it, and for the sake of the scenery, the good hospitality met with, and the racing, I am sure many more A ucklanders would have gone there than intend to owing to Takapuna races falling on the same day, January 30th. The Club (who, by the way, are racing under the Metropolitan Clubs’ Rules; have, I am pleased to see, received good acceptances and entries for all the events that have, so far, closed. Out of seven entrants for the Hurdles, four have accepted; out of 13 weighted for the Bay of Plenty Handicap—the principal item of the card—lo have paid up; and the general entries read as under : —Maiden Plate 7, Settler’s Plate the same number, and Ladies’ Purse also 7.