RECORDS AT CAULFIELD
A time record for the course in each of the seven races at Caulfield, on the opening day of the Spring Meeting, is a previously unheard of occurrence. As record after record was announced people were heard to declare that "the clock has galloped." But if the chronograph had gone too fast, says a Melbourne writer, the times would have been slower, not faster! However, there is never any fear of the chronographs on the principal Australian racecourses mistiming races, the writer continues. Until recent years they were started by a man pressing a button, electrically connected with the chronograph in the judges' box, but nowadays tho "clock" is started by an electric connecter which is operated by ths release of the barrier. In addition to the chronograph, a careful theck of the race times is taken at Klemington and Caulfield by Mr. F. W. Heath, the honorary timekeeper, with a .stop-watch. The times at Caulfield were extraordinarily fast, but that mainly was due to the excellent state of the track and the -weather conditions.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 103, 28 October 1933, Page 25
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178RECORDS AT CAULFIELD Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 103, 28 October 1933, Page 25
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