Te Aroha Club’s Annual Fixture

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 268, 2 February 1928, Page 6

Te Aroha Club’s Annual Fixture

ATTRACTIVE PROGRAM! It is not many racing clubs that e* joy such patronage and popularity « that which is always evident at the annual meeting of the Te Arch Jockey Club. The able tramier in which the officials carry <*ot their duties, combined, with the exiaHrc: programme that has been UTU|ti tend to give the club ah upward lift, and the meeting, on February IS ix 27 should be well up to expectation. The principal event the first dsyviE be the Herries Memorial Cup Hintcap, of £ 650, one mile and a-qnar* including a gold cup value £SO, whfc: is supplied by a fund left to the c.SL by the late Sir William Herries. Jiff, in importance comes the CfeangiK Hack Cup Handicap, of £ 300, one wfc and a-quarter, which carries wilt i* a silver cup presented by Mr. A. Css* brough. The Shaftesbury Hack Hadicap, of £ 200, six furlongs, will a* be noticed by owners, for in addl’in to the stake money, there-is a fWMPstake of £ 5 each attached. On tte second day a race of similar deociption will be run. Other items on & first day’s programme are the Handicap Hurdles, of £2<K>, one and a-half; Waitoa Handicap, * £l5O. seven furlongs; Juvenile HaAcap, of £ 20G, five furlongs; the fithou Handicap, of £3OO, six furioep. and the Hot Springs Handicap * £250, one mile. The President’s Handicap, one ic«. will be the special attraction on » second day, for the value of the sewmoney is £4OO. Other imports, events are the Piako Hack Handler of £250, and the Farewell Hamfrcat six furlongs, of a similar value, ot porting items will be the ManawsrHandicap Hurdles, of £2OO, one buj and a-half; Elstow’ Handicap, six IPlongs, with a sweepstake of £* «■£ added; Electric Handicap, of £2w. furlongs; Wairakau Hack Ha®®** 1 of £2OO, seven furlongs; Tounst -ait dicap, of £2OO, seven furlongs.. Nominations will close . secretary, Mr. G. A. Bush, Te or at Blomfield and Co., High on Wednesday, February 8, at » F RACING FIXTURES February 1, 2.—Pahiatua ItC. February 2, 4.—Egmont E.C. February 2, 4.—Gisborne February 4.—Matamata B.C. February 9. IL—Dunedfn J.C. February 9, 11.—'Taranaki J.C. * February 9, 11.— Poverty BfffT.u February 11, 13.—Rotorua B.C. February 15.—Clifden R-G. i February 16.— Tolaga Bay February 16, 13.— Wanganui-J.U . February 18. —Canterbury February 22, 23. —Gore B.C; February 23, 25.—Nelson J-C-February 24, 25.—WoodvflJe J**— February 23.—Waiapu R.C. February 25. 27.—Te Aroba J£- »C February 29. March I.—Dannevuke *■ March l. 3.— Marlborough B-C. March S.—Banks Peninsula K-b. March 3, 6—Te Kultl K.C. March 7.—Opotiki J.C. _ _ March 9. 10.—Xapler Park R-C. March 10, 12.—Franklin 8.0 I March 15, 17.—Wellington Rl~ i March 17.—Opunake RC. March 17, 19.—Ohinemun J.C March 21.—Otautau B.C. _ _ March 21. 22.—Hangitlkel RC. March 23, 24.—Oamaru J.C. _ March 24.—Bay of Plenty J-C March 24, 26 Westport J.C March. 28. 29.—Southland B.C. I March SO, 31.—Masterion RC