OTAGO.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XV, Issue 883, 7 February 1907, Page 9

OTAGO.

DUNEDIN, Feb. 6. The excellent nominations received for the Dunedin Jockey Club Cup Meeting, and the splendid manner in which owners have responded to the invitation to nominate at the Tahuna Park Trotting Club’s Meeting strongly suggest that local sportsmen should have the chance of assisting at the best “Carnival Week” of sport that has taken place here for many a season past. The time-honored Dunedin Cup has always possessed a good deal of glamour, and going to see the Cup is a stereotyped phrase often uttered by hundreds of men. Our local meetings have been gradually growing in popularity, despite the fact that in the past bad weather has frequently been a formidable antagonist against success. The financial returns from our meetings suggest that next season should see another liberal increase in prize-money, and where the

money is to be found a liberal attendance of the public is assured. The unprecedentedly long spell of dry weather which we have experienced naturally makes one dubious about large fields being found, but so far the adamantine nature of the tracks have not levied a very heavy tax on the list of horses in training whilst the liberal response which has been made for the Easter and Autumn Handicaps suggests that owners have strong hopes of concluding the season with many horses which have been in active commission from the commencement of the season. Crichton has knocked one of his legs, and he is not likely to be seen out until the back end of the year. Local quotations on the Easter and Autumn Meetings range from 100 to 4000 to 1. A sister to Sal Tasker, which was running at her owner’s place in Christchurch, broke one of her legs recently, and had to be destroyed. Jesse, the dam of Sal Tasker, has returned from Melbourne, whither she had been sent on a visit to Abbey Bells. Petrovna is doing lenient exercise again after her spell. Master Alix is at present running out in a paddock, and hence it is that his name is missing from the Great Easter Handicap. H. Goodman severs his connection with Mr. J. Buckley at the end of the month. The latter is going Home on a lengthy tour, and his horses will be either sold or leased.