ANOTHER CHANGE SOUGHT

Hutt News, Volume 3, Issue 4, 19 June 1930, Page 3

ANOTHER CHANGE SOUGHT

UNIVERSAL SYSTEM OF COLOURS

The Inangahua Troting Club is responsible for a remit to come before the Trotting Conference at Wellington next month, which has for its object the introduction of a system of colours to be carried in all races in future. For instance it may be that the oriver of No. 1 will always wear white, No. 2 black, No. 3 pink and so on. If it is hoped that by aueh a system the public will be able to

follow a race more easily than at present but the idea will be a dismal failure, and instead of simplifying matters will get the public, owners, and everyone else in a hopeless tangle. At present the colours representing the numerous stables are so well-known to the public that it is difficult to reason out just why, or how the lnangahua Club got the brainwave. To give some idea of the hopeless tangle the public would be in if colours had to be worn according to the order in which horses figured) in the race card, one has only to imagine the three days' cnp. meeting at Auckland. Jewel Pointer may be raced four or five times at the meeting and not once would his driver wear the same colours. If colours are going to be changed from day to day or race to race, then it will not be long before the public tire of the sport, because it will be impossible for the crowd to follow a race through and know the positions of the horses, and unless they can do this they woulcj lose all interest in the sport.