SPORTING NOTES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4196, 19 August 1892, Page 2

SPORTING NOTES.

[By Anteus.]

The Foxton Eaoing Club have decided that the race meeting to be held in January next shall be a hack meeting. The report presented to the annual meeting of members of tho Feilding Jockey Club held the other evening stated that the innovation of a two days' meeting at Easter had proved most satisfactory, and had resulted in a profit of about £4OO. The nomination and acceptance fees for the various events had been satisfactory, both as regards numbers and the quality of the competing horses, This result had been ,nainly due to the liberal stakes offered, viz., £l5O and £IOO for the two big handicaps, which amounts the Committee recommended should be increased to £2OO and £l5O respectively at tho next Easter meeting, The Summer Hack meeting had not been so successful as hitherto in consequence of the Falmeraton North Club holding their races on the same day, but notwithstanding, a pro* fit of £SO had been mado. The receipts from all sources amounted to 6s 8d as against £IO9B for the previous season, and f takes were given away amounting to £835, as against £470. The items of revenue for the various meetings compare as follows: Easter meeting, totalisator proceeds £835, as against £214 for tho previous year ; privileges realised £343 14s 6d as against £166 Us; entry fees, £335 as against £96; and the increase in expenses was hardly appreciable beyond the extra amount of stnkeß. The Yery noticeable increase in entry fees, viz, £BBS as against £96 proved conclusively the advantages gained by a two-days' meeting combined with liberal stakes. The Hack meeting, on the contrary, showed a marked falling off on each item of revenue, viz., £B7 in entry fees, £36 in profits ot totalisator, and £3O in privileges,

A number of Wairarapa breeders ' have signified their intention of putI ting brood mares to the well-known horse Dreadnought, which lias just bem imported from Australia. The desire to raise good stook is becoming quite universal,

It is stated that Mr J, freeth, of Featbewton, has leased stables in Greytown and intends taking up his abode there. He will train his string, which includes Mr G. A. Hirschberg's horses, on the Moroa course.