Foxton Racing Club.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 2 September 1890, Page 2

Foxton Racing Club.

i\ T . Z. lie/we. : Ix another portion of this issue, at the request of the secretary of the Foxton Racing Clnb, we publish the correspondence which has passed bftwe^a that c'u > and the Wei ington Racing Cub with reference to i tlie later body having chosen JanI unry 22 as one of the dates for their j Summer Meeting. January 22 has bepn th^ Foxton Club's date for their Surcm j r Meeting for the last 10 years, so avers their secretary. It has of 'ate years been customary for the "Wellington Racing Club to bring off their summer Meeting during th«first week in February, but tbe change of date of the Canterbury Jockey Club's Summer Meetiug, whi«h it is proposed to try the ex perimeut of next January, necessi 1 tated the Wellington Kacing L'lub bringing their meeting forward in order to catch the horses journeying from the Aucklaud Racing Club's Summer Meeting to Christchurch and Dunedin. This beiug so, they have fixed on January 22 and 24 for their Summer Meetii g of this season the former day being a par ticulsirly favourable one of them from a financial point of view, as it is the Anniversary Day of the foundation of Wellington, and is therefore a closo holiday there. "The gate' has to belooked to iv fiese times, and that we suspect is the principal reason why the W.R.O. have appropriated the day which the Foxton Kacing Club have so long claimed for their own. It is hard on the Foxton folk and we heartily sympathise with them. At no time do we like to sea any c'ashm<? of dates on the part of racing c tibs still less when a Metropolitan Club ousts a smaller club from a date over which they have a sort of preemptive right, us in the cape of the Foxton Racing Club and Jan* vary 22. It is a pity that the confer nee of del gates the adoption ol a regulation by which as in England, an allotment of dates shall be made by the lo iding racing tribunal. This wil bo good work for the New Zealand Jockey C ub to cany out on it* initiation iin-l we regret we cau find nothing in its prospectus whereby such a course will betaken. It is not yet too Lite to remedy thi> omission, and compel clubs at the beginning of a r cmg season to make applications for c- rtaiu dates. Then all c ashing and bickeiing J would be avoided.