TROTTING IN VICTORIA.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XVII, Issue 994, 25 March 1909, Page 5

TROTTING IN VICTORIA.

£l3OO IN PRIZE-MONEY. The sport of trotting is at the present time being liberally encouraged in Victoria through the instrumentality of the Melbourne Trotting Club, of which Mr. J. Wren is the manager. An advertisement appearing in the present issue, relating as it does to an aggregate prize offering of £l3OO, is worthy of the attention of owners of trotters and pacers throughout Australasia. Two of the items, £3OO and £5OO respectively, are for Sires’ Produce events, to be run off in July, 1910, and July, 1911, and nominations for these are due with the secretary, Mr? A. J. Gray, 197 Bourke Street, Melbourne, on March 31st (hist.). These events are for present yearlings and foals, and will be contested in harness. To meet the exigencies of the case as regards owners here, the management announces that nominations posted in New Zealand on or before 31st inst. will be accepted. The Futurity Five Hundred Race (£500), which will be run on the Richmond Racecourse on Friday, September 3 next, is for trotters and~ pacers. Nominations for this event are due on April 20, and the fee is £3. Full particulars of this interesting contest are given in the advertisement. The 'first acceptance (fee £5) is due on July 1.