FOXTON RACING CLUB

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3651, 14 June 1927, Page 3

FOXTON RACING CLUB

PROTEST AGAINST PAHIATUA DATES.

DEPUTATION TO WAIT ON CONFERENCE.

At a special meeting of the stewards of the Foxton Racing Club, held on Saturday night, it was decided to enter an emphatic protest against the action of the Pahiatua Racing Club in selecting dates for its meeting which are only two days prior to those which have been in use by the Foxton Club for over 60 years.

A deputation comprising Messrs W. E. Barber, W. T. Jewell, M. B. Bergin and the secretary (Mr. D. R. Ogilvy), was appointed to wait on the dates committee of the New Zealand Racing Conference on July 10 to make further representations in connection with the matter on behalf of the Foxton Club. It was pointed out at the meeting that the action of the Pahiatua Racing Club was somewhat difficult to understand, having regard to the fact that, by selecting dates a few days prior to the 22nd February, when the Woodville Club's races will be held, it could arrange a sequence of dates between the Pahiatua, Woodville and Dannevirke meetings, the latter being held on the 29th February and Ist March. A sequence such as this, it was stated, was the ambition of half the racing clubs in New Zealand, but the Pahiaiua Club bad passed it by and had applied for dates which, it was contended, jeopardised not only the success of its own meeting but that of the Foxton Club as well.