THE TURF.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2637, 20 October 1909, Page 6

THE TURF.

TE ARAI RACING CLUB

To-morrow afternoon, at the picturesque course situated a mile past the Mantituke store, the Te Arai races will take place, and everything promises a successful meeting being held. The secretary, Mr. J. E. Daulton, has everything well in hand, and with the better facilities at the course this year, has been enabled to do everything possible to ensure a .good day’s sport. The entries for the races are very good; the class of horses running being much imjiroved on previous meetings, and m•cludino- the Wellington mare Miretta, which nas won several races at Miramar. Arrangements for refreshments have been left in the capable hands oi Mrs. Erskin'e, So that creature comforts will be well attended to. To enable townspeople to visit the races, Messrs Redstone and Sons are despatching drags from the Masonic corner at 12 •o’clock, returning after the .last race. Patrons driving out to the course are instructed to look out for the largo flag, flown at the back of the ground, to direct them on their way. GISBORNE RACING CLUB. The Gisborne Racing Club has increased the stakes to be given at the summer meeting by 100 sovereigns, and it has been decided that the principal event on the second day of the meeting be called the Harding Memorial Handicap. 'The “Gisborne Racing Club Handicap” will replace the “Summer Handicap:^ MELBOURNE TRAINING NOTES. United Phess Association— Copyright (Received October 19, 11.30 a.m.) MELBOURNE, October 19. At Flemington to-day King’s Cross and Monobel covered ten furlongs in 2min 174-sec, Shifter, Kooringa, and Even Time a mile in lmin 52sec, Mother Goose a mile in lmin 50sec, Alawa sprinted with Trafalgar, going strong. FRANK WOOTTON’S RECORD. LONDON, October 18. The “Sportsman” states that Wootton, the ex-Australian jockey, has ridden 134 winners out of 627 mounts.