AUTUMN MEETING.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 43, 19 January 1938, Page 14

AUTUMN MEETING.

WOODVILLE CLUB’S PROGRAMME. Tho Woodvillc District Jockey Club has drawn up a most attractive programme for its autumn meeting, to be held next month. Tho first day's card opens with the Maiden Plate, of £IOO, the next event being tho Oringi Highwcight (14 miles), of £l3O. The principal race is the Woodvillc Handicap, of £3OO, over tho same distance. The Sapling Stakes, of £l3O are for two-year-olds (54 furlongs). The President’s Handicap, of £l3O, is a seven furlong hack race, and the open sprint is the Ruahino Handicap, of six furlongs. Tho two remaining events on tho programme are hack races, the County Handicap, of £l3O, being over six furlongs, and the Kumcroa Handicap, of £l4O, over a distance of one and a quarter miles. The Novice Plate, of £IOO, which opens tho second day’s card, will be followed by the Hopelands Highwcight, of £l3O, one mile and a distance. Tho Autumn Handicap, of £250, is over the 6ame distance. Another race at the meeting for two-year-olds is the Debutante Stakes, of £l3O (fivo furlongs). The hack seven is the Maharahara Handicap, of £l3O, and the open sprint is' the Telegraph Handicap, of six furlongs. Tho hack sprint is the Mangapapa Handicap, of £l3O, and the last race, another hack event, is the Victoria Handicap, of £l3O.