MANAWATU RACING CLUB.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1520, 12 June 1919, Page 9

MANAWATU RACING CLUB.

CLASSIC EVENTS. A much appreciated feature of the Manawatu Racing Club’s popular meetings -at Awapuni are the important classic races included on the programmes, the leading thoroughbreds of the Dominion invariably figuring in these handsomely-endowed events. Entries for a number of these classics to be decided at the Manawatu meetings during the 191920 and following seasons are due on Friday evening next (June 13), with the secretary. Box 52 Palmerston North, at 9 p.m., and this fact should not escape the attention of owners in loth islands. The events in question are the Palmerston North Stakes (Fourteenth), of 500sovs., six furlongs, for two-year-olds and upwards, summer meet’ng, 1919, for which entries for yearlings (foals of 1917) must be made on the date mentioned; Manawatu Sires’ Produce Stakes (Twelfth), of 600sovs., six furlongs, for two-year-olds, autumn meeting, 1920, for which entries for yearlings (foals of 1917 the progeny of nominated sires) are also due on Friday next; Manawatu Stakes (Sixteenth), of 500sovs., six furlongs, for two-year-olds and upwards, autumn meeting, 1920, entries for yearlings (foals of 1917) for which must be made on the date stated; Palmerston North Stakes (Fifteenth), of 500sovs., six furlongs, for two-year-olds and upwards, summer meeting, 1920, entries for which for yearlings (foals of 1917) and upwards close Friday; Manawatu Stakes (Seventeenth), of 500sovs., six furlongs, for two-year-olds and upwards, autumn meeting, 1921, entries for yearlings (foals of 1917) and upwards also being due Friday; and the Manawatu Sires’ Produce Stakes (Thirteenth), of 600sovs., six furlongs, for two-year-olds, autumn meeting, 1921, for which nominations for sires and for yearlings (progeny of nominated sires) fall due on Friday next. In connection with the Palmerston North Stakes, 1920, and the Manawatu Stakes, 1921. entries for foals of 1918 will close on a day to be fixed in 1920.