THE WAIKATO CLUB.

Waikato Times, Volume 108, Issue 18117, 6 September 1930, Page 8

THE WAIKATO CLUB.

THE SPRING FIXTURE. AN ATTRACTIVE PROGRAMME. An attractive programme will be offered patrons of the light harness sport at the spring meeting of the Waikato Trotting Club on the club's course, Claudelands, on October It. This popular meeting has never failed to attract good class entries, and when nominations close on September 23 there should be ample material for a first-rate bill of fare. The programme will be ushered in by the Introductory Handicap, of £IOO, for unhoppled trotting horses, timed to do the distance, 1 mile 5 furlongs, in 4.10. The better class trotters will be catered for in the Hamilton Handicap, 1 mile 5 furlongs, carrying stake money to the extent of £2OO. The sprinters will be seen out in the one-mile event, the Stewards’ Handicap, of £2OO. The limit has been fixed at 2.18. The principal event on the card, the Mark Memorial Handicap, provides for £3OO for the winner, £7O for second and £3O for third. The distance will be two miles and the limit 4.38. The Frankton Handicap, of 1 mile 5 furlongs (limit 3.56); the Claudelands Handicap, of li miles (limit 3-0) ; the President’s Handicap, of £l4O, two miles (limit 4.50) ; and the Visitors’ Handicap, of £145, 1J miles (limit 2.57) should also draw some talented material. Considerable work has been put in by the committee since last meeting. The racing headquarters at Ciaudelands should be in excellent order for the spring meeting of 1930. Nominations will close at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, September 23, with Messrs Blomfield and Company, Auckland, or with the secretary (Mr T. G. Reynolds) Waikato Trotting Club, Hamilton. THAMES CLUB. DATE OF TrACE MEETING. THAMES, Friday. A meeting of the committee of the Thames Trotting Club was held last evening. The Waikato Trotting Club advised that it had foregone its application to race on March 28, 1931, and had applied for May 9, 1931. The New Zealand Trotting Conference acknowledged receipt of the various communications regarding the club’s claim to race on March 28, and advised that this date had been granted.