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NZ Truth, Issue 1184, 9 August 1928, Page 12

OCTOBER DATE

Northland's Chance To Qualify?

[ (From "N.Z. . Truth's" Auckland Rep.) Competitors with no time against them, are barred from competing at Alexandra Park. . AS a result, their owners are forced ** to .travel the country circuit as a means to put up the qualification times, but the dates on which they race have— in the past— --proved unsatisfactory. Meetings outside the metropolitan area were, held at such /periods ' of the | season that if a competitor registered the necessary to get m at Epsom, there was little doing later on m the way of discovering the right sort of race on the Alexandra Park course. . These meetings were held m December, March and May, but now there is a possibility that October will see the first of the i "smalls." The Northland Trotting Club has decided on Labor Day, on which to race, and there should be no reason why that date should not be finally settled on. It looks a good move to hold a meeting on a public holiday — and also at a time that will suit owners of maidens down to. the ground. j The argument is put forward m some quarters that the trotting meeting will clash with the Waikato Hunt at Cambridge, but the courses are about two hundred miles apart, which is. certainly a reasonable distance to I work on. [ It is extremely doubtful whether the clash ' between the hunt and trotting fixtures would do either club the slightest financial harm.