DUNSTAN JOCKEY CLUB RACES.

Dunstan Times, Issue 295, 20 December 1867, Page 3

DUNSTAN JOCKEY CLUB RACES.

(TO THE EDITOR OF THE DUXSTAN TBIeS.) ■Sir,---As the above race meeting is drawing so near, lavish, through your columns to 'make a few observations respecting tlieir prospects, and a fair comment on the animals now in active preparation for the important events, and in so doing I must necessarily confine myself to to the two handicaps on Boxing Day, and to start wsth I must take exception to these two races following so close to one another ; also to some oi the weigoto"as published for the hanbieaps. The top weight, Musician, is, to all appearance, a magnificent animal, and looks all over a race-horse, and one able to carry weight, but how the gentlemen selected S3 Handicappers could come to the conclusion to give him 9st Olbs is rather astonishing, nothing that he has ever done, can warrant his giving l.Slbs to Jlarkaway, who nn donbtedly is well in ; again take Edith for the Publican's Purse 7st lOlbc, a maiden, or Migriionette, list 41bs, in fact, the whole of Mr. GLossford's Stud are most nndonbt: edly hardly dealt with. Then again, 1 cannot come to any other conclusion, than that Harkaway must take valuable prizes, ho is T believe the only dangerous animal , Schoolboy, he can bowl easily over as he has easily done before. I must mention, before I conclude, the Alexandra Sports, the great interest taken by the miners in these sports, it is bound to 1)0 a great success, scasco a gullcy in the neighbourhood but lias its representative, no less than nine entries are expected for the first event, twelve for the second and six for the last. Yesterday evening, the Booths were drawn for at Mr. Leslie's Boatmans' Anns. Nine publicans declared their intention to erect Booths to sunplv the thirsty. JHoTsrun,