CORRESPONDENCE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3115, 29 January 1889, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

The Greytown Raceconrae.

(TotEe Editor.)

;Bib,-Will you .kindly allow me space in your journal to make a few • remarks with regard to the Wairar-

apa Standard's report'of the Wairarapa Jockey Club's meeting, their course at Moroa on the aSrcjp • inafc. I: refer in particular to the very disparaging account it gives of the course, and its prognostications of its early collapse as a race-oourse. In the first place, lam at a loss to. i understand-why a local paper like the. ■: Standaid, tlmt ia. supposed to advocate any institution that is likely to'' : prove of benefit to the residents, and why the.proprietor, of that journal- . should, without any apparent reasor ; ' c;o out of his! way to condemn ',i£ actionsof perhaps the mosfcthorop „i,| v > ' lepresentative Jockey Olub tb' , r ° ,; in the Piovincial Distiict of V .JJ " n« p.* Vferih ui 4, men as membeisol * nyClub , there ISTT ? numl,or ro P rs ' sentatives from »',] pait3 , Wairarapa. Tb „ can hardly,therefore, expeot {o receivo . their support' after s0 6everel , censuring thwj. actions. They say ' comparisons are desirable at ti»es; even tea most casual .observer, 9fcf, "v* could not foil to notice the*' J t favorable ropprt pf your own repoi ter, 1 • ilso th&t of -your contemporary, the *■>% v Star, /and tbo paper , report ms also ipippliinentary-Aiv' journal that one might havo expeoie® woiaa do its best to advocate Come, ivljieli, - of

course, lToAita advantages, but it also had its disadvantages, and these were well considered boforo the Club decided to remove to Moroa. '1 ho effect the Standard comments would havo upon ownora of horses who were strangers to tho district would probably be to deter thorn from sending tlieir horses, therefore sevorely handicapping the strenuous efforts of the club to work up a thorough good meeting, such as used to take plaoe on the sanio course about fifteen years ago, or, previous to it being removed to Tauherenikau." Even in those days fuoVn 1000 to 1500 people have been kflofu to be present to witness the performances of tho remowned Volunteer, piloted by J. 0. Hayward (the Wairarapa Archer,) and Trooper, the successful steeplechaser, ridden by that daring rider, the late J. Dorset. This is the course, also, whore the Wanganui . celebrities, flying Jib, Policy, and several others from that distriot, tried conclusions, and astonished the natives, and many of our local-bred ho rses of noto, such as Little Wouder, Tomboy, and many others, But to convince strangers the danger tho Standard represents is overdrawn, there is not bettor proof than that well-known sportsman, Mr P. F. Tancred, entering and running his many horses at each meeting. I must apologise for trespassing so much on your space, but, ss a resi- • dent of Greytown, and an admirer of the W.J.(J., I could not let the Standard's unfavorable comments pass unnoticed. I am, etc., Sportsman. Greytown, January 26,1288.