CORRESPONDENCE.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 346, 27 February 1889, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

I' Under no circumstances is the Editor res1 ponsible for the matter contained inCorrespondence.

I To THE EDITOR .} Sir, — Whilst looking over the weights for the Te Avoha races I wns struck with the unFair allotment of the weights to several horses, and being a lover of tine spnrt I hope you will allow me a frw lines to comment on some of them. Commencing with the top weiarht Recruit (list 71 b). I think he should have a hit mote after his running in Auckland. Ami Wide-awake (1 1st) is one of the two or three thrown in, for he won at Te Awamutu with 10st 10ll> very comfottably. I flunk afler a win like that he should have had ac least toput up lOlbs instead cf 41bs- Tiaroa, who won the local Steeplechase, ami Seaweed, winner of the local Hut (He Race, are asked to do what everybody knows they certainly can, i.e., Tairoa to carry 51 bs ovor, an \ Seaweed to curry even weights with Prospector, a horse that has never won a race, whereas when they met at the Thames at Xtnas, Prospector was in receipt of a stone from each of them and was beaten badly. Surely that is not calied handicapping. Earnest (9st 7lb) is about one of the Fastest horses that run's about the country, and the hamiicappers appeir to know it from the Fact that he has been asked to carry Bst 41 b in the Waiorongomai H.mdieip. Conpideiing the run he gave Wide-a-wake at Te Awamutu on the 2Gth January, carrying the same wpiflflit as now and getting a place he mnst surely le considered as thrown in. He took every jump like tin 3 racehorse that, _he is 3 and looking upon him as doing tho same "T>n the- 9i,U, vlmt show have horses like Prospector, Volunteer, etc., got with him, for he can irallop rings round them on the flat. Trusting you will insert the above. — I am, etc., Fair Play. Thames, Fobrnary 25th, 1889.