Sporting News.
" Spectator," in the Weekly Press, in his remarks on the Feilding J.C. Easter Meeting, says : — " The great success of Mr Woods, their "startes, who manipulated the new starting machine invented by the local firm in such a way as to make the starting of horse races look oae of the simplest thing imagin abie. I bave never seen fields despatched with so little loss of time, and there cau be no question that this was due to the fact that tbe starting machine was one that in the hands of an official who had proved himself expert, with the flag did its work well Messrs Say well and James are the patentees, and the machine is on the semaphore principle, with less gearing than is used with most of the starting machines I have seen. The new starting apparatus was certainly one of the features of the met ting."
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Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 248, 24 April 1896, Page 2
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151Sporting News. Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 248, 24 April 1896, Page 2
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