THE LATE RACE MEETING.

Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1147, 2 April 1872, Page 2

THE LATE RACE MEETING.

„ . ! [TO THE EDITOR*] ' _"' % ■'"" Sir— ln your issue of the 30fch instant, I find a letter signed "Rambler," in reply to an .answer of mine that appeared in your issue of the 22nd inst. Had .it not been- for the insinuating and ridiculous stupidity of his remarks, I should not have troubled you to publish this letter^ but I find so many mistakes that I feel compelled to right the public, and not leave them in a fog, as ♦'Rambler. as done, whether from ignorance or other motives I leave your readers to draw their own inference. From the following passages in "Rambler's" letter, I leave others to judge whether he is explicit or not : — " It would be vary much out of place for me to particularise parties,' but -a look at the ' correct card' would convince any in^quisitive person ! that -changes did take place." That "Rambler's" ideas are very ; gigantic or very narrow is evident, to imagine for a moment that all readers of the Grey River Argus of the 2lat instant would have a "correct card" of the Greymouth Races at their elbow to refer to ; and, if they had, 1 dp. not see that it would in any way enlighten them upon the. subject, as I cannot find, it stated on the "correct card" who was, or who was not, to ride the horses. When^ "Rambler" takes into consideration the accident at the turn so well described by myself (which description, by-the-bye, I cannot find in my letter), he thinks that had I paid more attention to Peeress and less to Black Eagle, the following would have been the result : — Peeress first, Black Eagle second^ and Misfortune third. That I did not pay sufficient attention to Peeress to suit the •' Rambler," I am extremely sorry, but that I at any time during the race paid undue attention to Black Eagle I deny, ; never having the chance, he_ being out of the race (through running inside a post), when I caught him. That ''Rambler," like many other supporters of Peeress, did not take into consideration the heavy weight she had to carry, or was ignorant of the effect it. would have, isevidentfrom his remarks. : : In reply to inquiries as to the cause of Peeress not being in so good a position in the Gold Fields Handicap'at two miles as she was at the same distance in the Greymouth Jockey Glub Handicap, I will endeavor to answer. In the first place, " Rambler " ought to know (considering his critical letter), that the pace was much faster in the Gold Fields Handicap than it was in the Greymouth Jockey Club : Handicap; rand consequently, the weight told sooner on Peeress ; secondly, that it is not to ' be: expected that a mare will run at all times of the year as well ofae day as another ; and lastly, that she might not have been persevered with when her rider found she had no chance of catching' Black Eagle; ~. < • v ..- ; Hoping this will satisfy the "Rambler's" thirst for information, I beg to conclude; with many shanks- for publishing the above. . , „ '"'■ " '" ■'■■ ;:; ; 1 am, &6:j ■''-- : - :: ' ■' ;'• f~ ... . J. Richardson. i Royal Mail Hotel, Hokitika. [This coiresp6^n3enc¥ffiaHrTieTe--ceasß7 unless thg letters appear as' advertise_™Bnts.i=Eiy:J—^i^--- '■■ ;! A? v ..