A LOCAL STEEPLECHASE MEETING.

Te Aroha News, Volume I, Issue 3, 23 June 1883, Page 3

A LOCAL STEEPLECHASE MEETING.

TO THK FDITOR. Sir;,— Tn reference to \oui paragraph, re a steeplechase meeting in your last, week's issue, f fully fall in with the suggestions. Steepleehasing' en coinages the breeding of useful hoi si's, which Hat racing in ni.uiy instances ignores. A horse to <xo over a i on n try must have bottom, whilst a weed (anwino-ver a fr'e-i in long' course. At the s;ni,(! time a horse to negociate a county must h.ive two qualitu ations, indispensable in the every-day hoise, power and endurance. Your idea of not making the stake- large is good, I'or the reason that it encourages the settler and the ni-m who must liave a horse to try and secure such an animal as will not only suit his puipose in the matter of business, but one capable of doing a scallop and jumping what his owner holds lih head at. Only N. '/>. should be qualified to inn. I believe in lacing" in e\ erv form m I'.icc. 1 love sport, and I don't believe a man is any way like pei feet without a lot of. spoit in hs composition, it is an incentive to liberality and kindnc-K, w (tliout w hicli no man can thiouyh the world snulin»l%. 1 would su.i;t;est tln.'t a st< eplecha^e couise be m.vie. It is easy enough. New-made fences are equillyas t;ood as antiquated ones. They .lie ali made at hlaitnn;, and a course can be laid mil m) to test [he st.i) mti; powers of the au'm.ilh that h.i\o to nei;ociate it. A piowsion should be made so as to • tlebai rhe ]trol'ession,il ridei. Let r l\>in, Dick, or ILuis, lide their steeds. The interests would thus become local, \ and Bookmaker, with his bottled up quad, would be lelt in the cold, and an .uiiin il known to be capable of winning, euiyin^ likely a pail or two of wat<r or sonic othei stopping pow ci , would not be slipped amou^si your toinnnmiU to the delnnient oL the bo\s on the hill, wiio nuM have a note or two on sonu'thm^. w ht'ii the} attend a ia< c meiting. — I am, iXC. I

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