POSTPONED AGAIN
CANTERBURY PARK.TROTS
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
CHRISTCHUECH, This Day.
The Canterbury Park Trotting Club's Meeting has been further postponed till next Saturday as the track is still unfit from the topdressing applied. The track has improved but heavy rain early last night reduced it to a quagmire, this morning. The weather is perfect today, but there is no hope-of racing. The postponement, the second in a fortnight, has caused much disappointment. A special train from Greymouth arrived this morning, carrying a hundred people, tired but full of expectations of an enjoyable day's sport. Fine conditions. greeted them. Then came a bombshell. When they inquired where the race tram might b! c found, an inspector informed them that the trots had again bee:i-post-poned. -. .-.,■.....,. A prominent trainer,, when asked for his opinion on the postponement, said the track .was impossible to race on, being under some four inches of slush, and he thought it would be' impossible'l to race on it next week.
Trainers are also complaining of the expense they have been put to through the postponement.
Unfortunately for the . Canterbury Park Club, the New Brighton Club has been making improvements to its course, thus blocking one avenue through whicn an escape might easily have been made.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 132, 5 June 1937, Page 11
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