CORRESPONDENCE.
THE LEAPING MATCH.
To the Editor, Sir.—l noticed in a recent issued of your paper, when commenting on the alteration the Wairarapa and East Coast Pastoral and Agricultural Society had made in omitting the jumping match and substitiiting a water jump and a leap over two hurdles at a fixed height, that in your opinion the alteration was a mistake, I, as well as many others, quite concur with your views on this matter, If the water jump had been added to the programme, and the jumping match had been allowed to remain, as in former years, it would have been an improvement, but I think the object of leaping matches of any kind is to develop horses, either suitable as useful stock horses or hurdle and steeplechasers, If one of these is the desideratum wished for, its object will hardly be obtained by giving a prize to a horse that clears a low hurdle the neatest, as you remark. I think this will be found a mistake. 1 am, <K A MEMBER.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 2136, 3 November 1885, Page 2
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174CORRESPONDENCE. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 2136, 3 November 1885, Page 2
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