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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume X, Issue 348, 31 December 1875, Page 2

To she-Editor ov the 'Evening MaiitV Sir, — Among your sporting mems in yesterday's issue, I notice, a paragraph relating to the Waimea South Jockey Club. As this is not the first or second time you have pronounced it » mistake, I think it only right to say that you will have to -furnish more convincing arguments than you have hitherto done before the Waimea public will consent to our races being taken to Stoke, and placed under the management of the Nelson Jockey Club, and without wishing to speak disparagingly of the Nelson Jockey Club there is no doubt that financially it has been very badly managed for many years past, which cannot be said of the W.S.J. Club. We have always been prepared to pay the stakes on the settling night, and to show the good feeling that exists between us, we paid the N.J. Club £10 on the first year that we were in existence after paying a £100 stake beside smaller ones. In conclusion, lam quite of your opinion thafc, the two clubs should amalgamate, but looking to the f oregoing facta, I submit that the N.J. Club should join us and have the races run at Wakefield. The train is quite as able to bring the Nelson people to Wakefield, as to take the Wakefield people to Stoke, even if you could ensure the old race course, which is doubtful. I am, &c, %^ Osfe op the Stewards of the W.S.J.Ci