SPORTING.
RACING
WAIRARAPA HUNT CLUB STEEPLECHASE. The Stewards of the Wairarapa Hunt Club have all arrangements complete for the Steeplechase Meeting, on the Clareville Racecourse, on Thursday next. The entries are highly satisfactory, and with fine weather there should be a large attendance and good sport.
MARTON ACCEPTANCES. Acceptances for the first day's races to be run at the Marton Jockey Club's annual hack race meeting at the Bulls course on Ssptember Ist and 2nd, will close with the secretary, Mr Arthur Way, Marton, at 7.30 p.m. to-day.
MARLBOROUGH RACING CLUB. SPRING MEETING. The programme drawn up for the Marlborough Racing Club's Spring Meeting, to be held on October 6th and 7th, is framed on very similar lines to that issued twelve months ago. Altogether sixteen races are provided, including open handicaps, hack hurdles, a m aiden scurry, and a Ladies' Bracelet. Of the open races, the most important are the Blenheim Handicap, of 100 sovs, one mile and a distance; Flying Handicap, of 50 sovs, six furlongs; Riverlands Handicap, of 80 sovs, one mile ; and Telegraph Handicap, of 60 sovs, seven furlongs. Entries will close with the secretary, Mr L. Griffiths, Blenheim, on September 18th.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9576, 24 August 1909, Page 6
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196SPORTING. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9576, 24 August 1909, Page 6
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