THE DUNEDIN RACES.

Evening Star, Issue 4067, 9 March 1876, Page 3

THE DUNEDIN RACES.

Tb the Editor. ; Siß, —By his letter in your issue of Tuesday Uwt, “ Mmin” comes put worse than ever, t In an ingenious but disingenuous way he denies that he told as uatrotb About the time that

Stag Philip was running in Victoria, altering the wording of his original artic'e from “last spring” to ” the Victoria meeting of 1874.” 1 was not aware that the springe of 1874 and. 1875 were, one and the same season, bub I suppose the same person told “Merlin” so that told him “Templeton had been extensively fired.” His two other errors that I noticed J see he lias admitted occurred “through gr ss carelessnesswhat an admission for a public writer to have to make! But far worse is his childlike and astonishing s' atement that he did not s'e that Tempi ton’s legs had not I eon fired, became ho “ was more intent on looking at his condiiion than at his legs,” Hero is a good judge of condition, who when ascertaining the fitness of a racehorse totally ignores the moat imputant point—the legs I All his rigmarole about King Philip’s bleeding is writing thrown away—well-Lnown performers on the turf ere handicapped according to their performances, not according to their breeding, and King Philip’s deeds during the lest twelve months did not justify the handicappers in placing more thin Bnt on him for the Cup. Again, if weight went to breeding, there a’ e a good htflf dozen still left in the race who are far better bred than King Philip, and Koran is one of them. “Merlin” has evidently turned his attention to a tu f register since my last letter, and he has not done so at all before it was required.—l am, etc., Disgusted.

Dunedin, March 9.