CYMKHANA.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 57, 2 March 1912, Page 4

CYMKHANA.

i THE A. AND P. ASSOCIATION'S EASTER ATTRACTION. Details in connection with the Gymkhana, to be held on Easter Monday, under the auspices of the Stratford A. and P. Association, are now well in hand. This great novelty fixture is being looked forward to with interest by the public, and a.s the programme of events is very attractive, no doubt a large crowd will foregather on the Show Grounds on the day. As well as hunters' steeplechases, pony jumping, ladies' jumping competition, motor-car driving, and trotting races, there will be a number of novelty events. Amongst the novelty competitions there will be a man v. horse race and a menagerie race. The man v. horse race wild, be run over a triangular course, the sprinter being allowed to swing round the poles at the angles. The menagerie race will be run over a course of 120 yards, any animal except dogs being "allowed to compete, animals to be driven by a single string. There are two trotting races on the programme, to be run under the rules of the New Zealand Trotting Association. The maiden trot wall be run over a course of one miile, and the open handicap over one mile and .a half. The course round the oval on the Show Grounds is four laps to the mile, and as the horses will bo close to the spectators throughout the raeeis a splendid view will be obtained from start to finish. The inclusion of trotting races on the programme should be very pleasing to owners of trotters in the. district. A pony trotting race will also be run during the day. The programme of events has been printed, and may be had tree on application to the secretary, Mr. E. -Jackson. Entries close on J'Oth March.