An Amusing Race Meeting.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 232, 28 August 1884, Page 5 (Supplement)

An Amusing Race Meeting.

' At a race meeting held at Lahore (India) during May a couple of amusing events were decided. One //•trig entitled the Harmony Stakes, for all ironies, every rider to play a musical instrument" (to be approved of by the committee) all through the race; the first m with his bcyah to be declared the winner; prize, .a jewsharp; distance, i mile. Bushgirl (his rider and owner playing a 'whistle) was returned the winner half a length m advance of Curacoa (fife). Pique (banjo; early came to ..grief, and its sweet strains (according to my authority) were thus lost to the The remaining* starters were Kandahar (crying doll) and Anonym* (drum). The agonised cry of the doll was heard above the din of the race at the finish. The- other comical event: was a Menagerie Race, for all animals except horses, all to be driven; prize, a carcLof honour. The competitors were a fox terrier Grip (who won) ',. rooster Chanticleer (second), and bullfrog, called AT, ditto Leper, ditto Hopper, and duck Quack. From the description of the event it appears the fox terrier, after his attention had been, with difficulty diverted from the frogs, which he seemed anxious to annihilate, seized on to the rooster, which being m turn rescued, the/ canine was returned the winner.