WANGANUI SHOW.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 650, 29 October 1909, Page 10

WANGANUI SHOW.

'i Tho dates of the Wanganui .Sho.WrareiVcmbor';l7 and 18, and entries close on-.Novem-ber 3. The Wanganui'-district always had a «ibig reputation for its horses,and, at the. 'Hawfe's Bay on tho horses, remarked:'?VThe.best •nprsssfjl ever saw at Hastings, tho class for "~sin:glo horse in gig on ;the-first day..of.Jheislip ! w ■ was the finest clasij? of all. ;Jn • .-stariccs' tho eihibitft .werfe so.vgood 'placed' five of thorn,'instead of three, as allowed -by >the schedule.;--, The .cobs andj.pppie?; were excellent...,; Motor invasip.ii?.:, .-Well, , I could , not.'help remarking- that, although the/ motor-cars seem as plentiful as flies.in-HaTyks's Bay, they have .not. driven .'away,', the' horse.! They, can't .'do : without the' horse/ 'Whefe is; the beat show of 'light horses'?;,''Wc used 'to' look for:'it at Auckland,. Wit; T:wouldn't like to say Auckland wiir.' l sho^' ; 'anythiiig;'..better than they had:at Hastings this week."' p:*.-'- 1 Where does Wanganui conie : .in'?;' Only just.hero:'- that the horso.'which'-',carried'-"off the? champion honours was a Wanganui horse','viz., Mrs. JHnies : 'Bull's Belladonna, 'iri-additionto. which Mrs'. Bull "also 1 had the Satisfaction'ofcarrying off first'prize in. the'tandem "'team, pair iof harness horses, • and, singlo-, harness horse/ Tlie-champion"hackjwa^Vialsb'/a West; Coaster, Batea, as. hisl'lnathW.signifies,-' having : been-bred in the , Alton district. Then, agSin, " The Juggler," who rail him closO'for'pr'emier honours,-was --formerly ownedin the dis : trict, and tho best of:the jumpers, viz., Vendetta, . Erin-go-bragh, Fiffii hailed , from this district, whilst Mr. Maxwell; Edgar's one-tijno tandem leader easily-carried off premier honours in her- class.; Harness-ponies .(14.2. under)." , : . The Wanganui schedule "is,: a,'most compre-;-hensive one, there, being ..classes 'for-; eveyy de-i scription of horse," and as the _ Association and 1 ' special-.prizes arc liberal, it is expected that tliera will be a, first-class show of horses on and 18. '-,/:,/y/..

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