WHAT "TOM BOY" KNOWS ABOUT THE RACES.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume II, Issue 62, 7 March 1868, Page 3

WHAT "TOM BOY" KNOWS ABOUT THE RACES.

Since yon insist that Tomboy, (that’s me), does know something about the Wairarapa races, he will tell you what he does know. You may notice that I speak of nn'self in the third person, my reason is that ail great men have done so since the days of Caesar. Well, Tomboy, or T. 8., which is shorter, now lays before you that store of knowledge for the information of your readers which was before locked up in his “ manly buzzura.”

You wish to know the horses likely to run -at the forthcoming meeting, and T. B. is the boy to tell you. First of all Mr Wallace Smith is training your esteemed correspondent’s namesake. Tomboy for himself and Thunderbolt for somebody else who shall be nameless. Mr Hugh McMasters has Recruit and Saunterer under his gentle care. By the bye, if Thunderbolt and Saunderer don’t show well in the races for “ the Maiden,” T.B. will he rather astonished. A Ravcnsdowne colt, name unknown, (query, if he was ever christened), and the Wizard will be brought from

Te Ori Ori. Mr Donald has also a‘ Ravensdowne from whom great things are expected, and he is nursing two animals for Mr Vallancc, namely, Miss Whip and Rod-in-Pickle. You may also expect some good from Mr Tom Ray’s bay filly ISTainai, which long-legged animal is in splendid order. A maori horse known as Tipperary will show up on the ground as well as Mr TV elch’s Trooper. Some people are very confident in the success of a certain little bay mire of Mr Dorsett’s from which you may look for good running. There is also a certain grey mare, T.B. does not know her name, and can’t find it out. she is owned by Mr Conroy. The victorious horse Corsair will be down here also from Wanganui. There is a mare being at present trained, to astonish the Wairarapaites, by Mr ieorge Hobbs at the Hutt. Ido not know who she belongs to, but I guess she is Mclntosh's. You may expect also Policy and Myrtle, Fawn’s Balrownie and Heatherbell, and Elliott’s Rangitoto. Myrtle, by the bye, is a daughter of Nutwith, and showed that there was good stuff’ in her at the Wanganui races. T.B. here concludes; he has told you all with a slight reservation. Adieu. Your’s, TOM BOY-