Racing Too Mechanical?
! "Members wfll have heard .that • the photo-fl nish is to be ip.Sytailed ! at Riccarton— nossibiy at the -Grafld ' National meeting," -said .the. chairman', Mr. S. Elwor;thy,* at the' ■ annual meetirxg Qf the. Canterbury i Jockey Club. "Opinions are someI what divided as to the actual necesJsity of this innovation," he said. I "Manv consider -that racing is bei coming more and more of a com- ! mercial undertakina. with too many mechanical devices ' being intro.duced. Certainly 'the c-lu-b h^is functioned "satisf actorily for many years without the assistance of such mechanical aids.' However, nther clubs have- decided that the iutroduction of the photo-finish is a progressiv.e step, and this club eahnot affbrd to be behind the times.-'
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Chronicle (Levin), 26 June 1946, Page 4
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