TARANAKI.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume X, Issue 506, 5 April 1900, Page 12

TARANAKI.

THE PATEA MEETING. New Plymouth, March 28. Weights for the Patea Hack Meeting, to be held on Easter Monday, appear in this issue. Eleven have been handicapped in the Hurdles. I like Cuckoo, Hautonga, Uobal. In the Fly? ing a dozen have been weighted. Mamaku, Cobalinn, and Bonus read well. Eight figure in the Easter Handicap. Wai iti, who has been on the shelf for some time owing to filled legs, appears in the list with Bst 91b. If brought to the post she should win. Of the others I like Lubba and Black Rose. Twelve have been weighted for the Alton High-weight Handicap. Brown Bill, the full brother to Battleaxe, figures with Bst 101 b. I like Bbown Bill, Pyroxylin, and Bugler. Two short races and a Farmers’ Plate make up the programme. I hear that Dartmoor and Okoari are on the retired list through lameness, and that Battleaxe is still being spelled. This does not look like the son of Hotchkiss fulfilling his Easter engagements at Auckland.

Dummy and Muscatel are in work, and Johnson has also taken in hand the two-year-old colt Tupara, another full brother to. Battleaxe. This colt claims an engagement in the next Taranaki Guineas.