EGMONT MEETING.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume VI, Issue 301, 30 April 1896, Page 7

EGMONT MEETING.

The steeplechase season proper will be inaugurated at the Egmont meeting on Thursday and Friday next. The Club are for the first time trying the experiment of a winter two days’ meeting, and judging by the splendid list of nominations, there is every likelihood of a successful meeting The acceptances are not due till to-morrow night, so that we are in the dark as to probable starters. If racing clubs would close their entries, especially acceptances, earlier in the week, all the weekly papers would give them, by publishing the list, a free advertisement as it were, while if a man, especially those living out of town, doesnot seethe the acceptances, he loses interest in that particular meeting. A free “ad.” at the end of the week, and just before the meeting, would be a big help to a club in many ways. In connection with the Egmont meeting, the Northern Steamship Company have arranged return excursion fares by the favourite s.s Gairloch, from Auckland to Hawera, fares, £2 10s return. Local sports could leave here Monday afternoon, “ do” the meeting, and return by Friday night’s boat, reaching Auckland on Saturday afternoon. Splendid hotel accommodation will be found at Hawera, at the Empire, Egmont, Commercial, Hawera, and Royal hotels. “ Gipsy King” will give his fancies from the handicaps.