THE RACES QUESTION.
[To the Editor of the Daily TEiBeuAJH.] Sib,—The statements in the letter signed " ProgreßS," which appeared in the Herald of Thursday last, in reference to the H.B. Racing Club and the Havelock races, have been answered most thoroughly. Will you allow me to say a word in reference to what is said about Petane. It is stated that the Racing Club last year jumped the Petane day and course. This statement is utterly false, and the writer of it, if be knew anything about a matter upon which he undertook to write, must have known it was false. Both the day and course were selected with the consent and entire approval of the stewards of the Petane Club. We have no reason whatever to complain of the conduct of the Racing Club, but we have strong reason to condemn the action of those leading members of the Jockey Club who have influenced a few of the steward* of the Petane Club, who are weak enough to be easily influenced in this direction, to change the day of their meeting from New Year's Day to the Thursday preceeding. This change will entirely do away with the possibility of the Petane meeting being a successful one, and it has been brought about altogether through the influence of a few members of the Jockey Club who are interested in' the Woodthorpe meeting.—l am, &c. A Member op the Petane Club. Petane, 3rd October, 1881.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3202, 3 October 1881, Page 2
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