FIXTURES.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume VIII, Issue 390, 13 January 1898, Page 15

FIXTURES.

Feb. 19 and 23—Otahuhu Trotting Club.

NOTES.

The Otahuhu Trotting Club’s Summer Meeting will be held at Potter’s Paddock on Saturday and Wednesday, 19th and 23rd February, and the programme, which is published elsewhere, is sure to meet with support. Eight events are provided for on each day, and the sum of £530 will be given away, and of that total £3lO will be devoted to the trotting and £220 to the ponies. Nominations close with the secretary, Mr W. L. Lockhart, at the Metropolitan Hotel, Auckland, and at Otahuhu, on Friday, 4th February, at 10 p.m. The Canterbury Trotting Club (writes our Christchurch correspondent) has received fortynine nominations for the third Juvenile Stakes of 280 sovs, to be decided in May, 1899. Mr J. A. Buckland, of. N.S.W., has entered four colts, three by Vavclere and one by St Louis; Mr H. Mace has six fillies by Brookholm. Other sires whose progeny have been nominated are Imperious and Rothschild four, Viking six, Wildwood six, General Tracey four, Kremlin two, Electioneer two, Specification, Brooklyn, Hahn, and Pleasanton one each. # * * * The South Island Trotting Association met last week over the appeal of Linda in the Bed of Stone case; the Ltnda case was dismissed. F. Holmes’ appeal

against the decision of the Canterbury Trotting Club in disqualifying Stonewall 'ackson forstarting before his time in a race on January 1 was upheld. The appeal by Kirton against the decision of the ’I ahui-a Park Club, which upheld the protest of McEw’en, owner of Leo, for inconsistent running of Rex, was dismissed. The appeal of J. Munro, rider of August, against the decision of the Canterbury Trotting Club in dismissing his protest against the horse Sterling, laid for inconsistent running, was dismissed. The association, which has been kept busy lately considering appeals, sat from 7.30 p.m. until 1.45 a.m., not at all a bad night’s w’ork. Peter C. Kellogg, the well-known American trotting horse auctioneer, is n London and will conclude arrangements for establishing a mart for the disposal of American trotters in Europe. There is an increasing demand for them and no doubt buyers from France, Germany, Austria and Russia, will be glad to attend sales in England. ihe best lot of horses ever shipped to Honolulu left San Francisco last month on the barque Archer. r l hese were consigned to J. A. McDonald. Besides being fine looking, many of them have shown their ability to trot and pace below 2.30. There were eighteen head in all and were selected with great care. The.export of fine trotting stock to Europe during the past few mouths has been quiet though it bids fair to have an immediate revival. Several important purchases have been made recently and a number of foreign buyers are here while more may be expected as soon as the great winter sales commence. But the year’s business promises, for all classes of horses, to far exceed any previous season. Up to September 1, or for eight months of the present year, we exported 30,628 valued at 3,728,192d01, as against a valuation for the same period last year of 2,476,828d01. If we assume that the last third of the year will be as prosperous in pro.portionsas the other two-thirds in the value and number of the exports the total exports for the year will be worth close to 5.000,000d01s. — Breeder and Sportsman

Since July 4th Star Pointer has travelled over 8,006 miles, has paced twenty-six heats below 2.05 and nine in 2.02. V or better.