TARANAKI.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume IV, Issue 205, 28 June 1894, Page 5

TARANAKI.

June 22nd. Mr G. Slater, the well-known sporting writer, is wintering in y the Rangitikei district. - ' / The Taranaki Trotting Club will hold their next meeting in September. Mr W. Keith, who passed through New Plymouth the other day,, commissioned a local business man to purchase Waiuku, if the colt could be got for £3OO. Tempting as the offer is, I don’t think it will fetch J ay Russell. As the Hawke’s Bay Winter Meeting has been postponed till Thursday next, I still have another chance to record my impressions of the principal events. In the Hurdles I like Melinite, and the only one I can see to lower her coloursis

Kapua. I prefer the chance of Victrix in 'the Steeplechase, Morag for the Maiden Steeplechase, and Sylvanus in the Ladies’ Bracelet. There is absolutely nothing stirring in the sporting line in this district at present. m ~ Pyroxlin (Foulshot—lna) in Mr Teed’s stables, is now being ridden in exercise by T., Salter, who has been recently employed in that stable. Mutiny with 10.9 on his back, will have to be reckoned with in the V.R C. Grand National Steeplechase. The cross-country gelding Dick has quite recovered from the knocking about he got at Wellington and Eginuut, and he looks fit enough to win a few more events before he is retired from the track. The Taranaki Jockey Club Committee have not yet reported on Mr Samuel’s suggestion that a dividend should be paid out on the second as well as the first horse. Mr R. H. Nolan, who will represent the country clubs, in this district at the forthcoming conference, has written the ( various secretaries asking them if they have any matters they would like brought forward.