DUNEDIN.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume V, Issue 215, 6 September 1894, Page 6

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September 4. Homoeopathic treatment for horses has become quite fashionable at the Forbury. It appears quicker and more effective than allopathy, and about a dozen racers -and trotters that have gone wrong have recently been subjected to it and speedy cures have resulted in all the cases. Casket soon verified the impression which I wired you last week that it would take a man to ride him. He got the upperhand of his rider on Wednesday, and proved that he is a stayer for he covered about three miles and then pulled up as if ready for more of it. The Dunedin Jockey Club evidently mean to stick to the rule charging £5 for altering a horse’s name. The Maxim— Aqualate colt was recently re-named Black and Red. The fee was to be paid last week, and Mr S. P. Mercer wrote asking whether the payment would be enforced considering that the horse had never started in a race. The committee were of opinion that the rules require that the fee must be paid when a name is voluntarily changed. Some of our country clubs are thinking of holding their Spring meetings without the totalisator. One of them wrote asking if they did so what amount per diem would they require to give in stakes at the Summer meeting, at which they intend to use the machine ? A second query was whether, if they held a Spring meeting without the totalisator, it would be necessary to submit their programme for the metropolitan club’s approval. The head club replied to the first question by resolving that the first meeting without the totalisator would not count as one of two meetings, and that the club would have to give £l5O per diem net at the Summer meeting at which the totalisator was used. In reply to the second question it was resolved that, in accordance with Rule 22, every programme must be submitted and receive approval. Our Spring races in November and the Otago Agricultural and Pastoral Society’s show will be held in the one week so that there should be quite a carnival time. Our Hunt Club meeting for Saturday has not received very good acceptances. The only races of interest to northerners will be the Kensington and Shorts Han-

dicaps. Seven are left in the former, viz. : Hippomenes, Dilemma, Captive, Rangiatea, Maribyrnong, Victim and The Winchman. Ido not expect the top weight to start for the course is bound to be heavy as it has been under snow since Friday last. The-Kensington event will, I think, be won by Dilemma, who has greatly improved lately, and the going will certainly suit mhi. Rangiatea is the next best. There are a dozen left in the Shorts, which I fancy will be a tough go* The finish should lie between Forbury and Casket.

There has been no N.Z. Cup betting lately. Next Saturday will very likely bring some of the Christchurch and Wellington books down on business bent. Considering the increase from £3 to £5 in the Coursing Challenge Stakes the entries received are exceptionally good, viz., 105 from all parts of the Australian colonies as well as N.Z.

Mr and Mrs Albert Lucas (Lilia Wilde) are expected to arrive here this week under engagement to Kennedy’s Dramatic Co., which opens on Thursday in the Lady of Lyons. The Montague-Turner Opera Company open here on Saturday night in Maritana.