RACING.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 449, 19 January 1909, Page 3

RACING.

The Coming Meeting.

Ou Friday, the Foxton Racing Club will inaugurate its annual summer meeting, and that it will be a success, given fiue weather, goes without saying. The acceptances for the meeting are particularly good ; the hurdles aud opeu races promising to be features of the meeting. Jumping events, in particular should be exceptionally interesting, the fields giving promise of being the largest seen out during the holiday period of this time of year, whilst a still larger measure of delightful uncertainty that is one of the game’s strongest fascinations, will be lent by the fact that several horses engaged have not hitherto appeared before the public in the role of jumpers. The Club’s executive is generally regarded as one the of most progressive on the coast, and year after year there is always the tale of something done since the previous meeting, all with the one end in view: the improvement of the club’s property and its added convenience from a racing point of view. This year the list of new works is fairly long and also comprehensive in effect, and is bound to be appreciated by race-goers, owners, and trainers. Add to this progressive spirit, the fact that the club possesses a large measures of popularity aud there are all the essentials for successful meetings achieved ; also in the face of the strongest opposition, that of the Wellington R. C. annual gathering on the same day.

An increasing feature of the meeting will be the innovation that Mr A. Keith, the club’s secretary, intends to introduce, viz., numbered tickets for horse’s bridles. The proposal has many points to recommend it theoretically, but it will be better to wait and see how it works out in practice before expressing a decided opinion. Genuine, the black Bona Fide gelding, who so easily beat Castiglione in the Scurry at Bulls, will make his next appearance at Foxton. Genuine has undoubted pace and it will be interesting to see how he will shape over longer journeys than half-a-mile. Awha, one of the Hawke’s Bay contingent, is another that is almost a certain starter at the meeting.

It is rumoured that Coy will be taken to Australia for autumn meetings. Coy is engaged in jumping events at the meeting, and though on the plain side is a lot better than he looks.