RACING AT POVERTY BAY.
(From the Poverty Bay Serald.)
The natives are beginning to go in for racing in quite a scientific manner, and are reaping the fruits of their enterprise abundantly. There was no event of, any importance at the late Napier meeting, except the Provincial Produce Stakes—for which the field was extremely limited—which was not won by horses owned either wholly or in part by natives. Marquis, which is entered in |Mr Maney’a name, belongs in part at any rate to Renata, and Shamrock, which is also entered in the name of that gentleman, was entered at the Havelock races in the name of Irini, Karauria’s daughter. The fact is that the Maoris buy up every winning horse that they come across, and they are now alive to the necessity of having them trained and ridden by professional jockeys, which they were not until recently. We expect in a year or two to hear of them sending horses over to the other side of the water, to try their luck for the Melbourne Cup.
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Globe, Volume III, Issue 261, 13 April 1875, Page 3
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