facebook   twitter   mail  

The Nelson Photo News

 
    Print this article

No 75 : February 4, 1967

68

Picnic Race Meetings

The Richmond Picnic Racing Club was dogged by bad weather, but was able to run both its picnic meetings at Richmond. The weather affected the attendances, but not the numbers of ponies competing in the pony events both days (about 22 faced the starter each race)

×
     

Every picture tells a story, so they say, and there are lots of stories here

×
     

Two-year-olds parade: Mr Pike, King Dillon, Big Boots

×
     

King Dillon had a fall but he got to his feet unhurt

69

×
     

Pony entries in the pony gallop garade in the birdcage

×
     

Chris Sigglekow leads the pony field home in the pony gallop

×
     

Chris gets his ribbon (he had three wins and a second in his four starts).

×
     

Trafalgar wins the Cardigan Bay Handicap on the second day from Sunny. Botts

×
     

The start of the last event

×
     

Chris Hoad had his share of wins in hack events

    Issue contents

Website © 2011 — Friends of the Nelson Library
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 New Zealand logo

All images and text on this website are made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 New Zealand (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/nz/).