HORSE RACING IN BUENOS AYRES.

Hokitika Guardian, 3 October 1925, Page 4

HORSE RACING IN BUENOS AYRES.

i!I!II.RIANT SRKCTaCI.K Ini: iH id IMUNCR. (Leonard .Matters in "Daily Mail.") Kvery Sunday ill - Argentine Jockey Cluh holds a lace meeting at the Hipndromo Naeiomd, which lies la-hind beautiful I’nleitiii I‘ark in Buenos _\ires.

Like most Latins, the Argentines regal d Sunday a s a day of sport and recreation. and even the Knglisli residents of Buenos Aires play cricket and football mi that day. on the principle tiial in Rome one does as tile R mums do— provided it is enjoyable. Sunday race meetings in Buenos .Vires are attended by scores el thousands: of people, and from noon onwards lhe I :oa J Asenida AI fear presents n scene which we in Knglund only see in Derby Day or for H'e opening at. Ascot. Fleets of taxicabs, of all makes am! shapes, in ail singes ol modernness and decrepitude, hustle and jostle, while past them dash the limousines of the distiugtiidos (young men cf good family) and the noisy racing ears of the young and spirited sportsmen who love to graze t' M e miseof the horses of the trallie policemen. Close in against the kerbstones, and out of the way of the roaring, rushing motor trallie. creep the Imr.-e-dra wu coaches. The mere luxurious of race-

goers or the more leisurely preier the ; one-horse carriage. In Buenos Aires. |- as nowhere else in the world, this relic 1

of a bygone vehicular age preserves an air of a l ist o< int ie distinction even among the smartest ol saloon ears. A MAKNII-TCKNT CoURSF. As one familiar with, the lull in many hinds, the Prince u ill doubtless agree that the Buenos Aires racecourse is one of the best appointed in the world. The 'lamb. buildings. and general arrangements cannot he excelled ,anywhere tut even ni Fh-iu-ington. which Australians regard as the last thing in race tracks. foe Buenos Aires iour-o is guile artificial and was rotisl rueled on waste land.

some of u hit h had to he reclaimed from the muddy foreshore of the River Plate. 1 1 has been fashioned into a thing of beauty by the hand ol the lundseiiiie artist and the „« eitie gardeii-

Tile track iisell is of hard-pricked sand which is harrowed, damped and rolled. Ni turf would stand Midi re go ! lar and persistent racing a- that which j goes on at Palermo. There are approxi- | mutely seventy meetings a year, and each day’s racing comprises eight events. (In Iho -and-I rack la-1 lino-s are made. One very until cable fault in Buenos ; Aire- racing i- the sitialluess ol the ,

held.-. I'sually live or six horses coin- ] pete. A field of fifteen would be very large, and in the great ‘‘classics." lor which (uiy.es up to IBO.Oth) are given, j il is c million mu thelidd I o he rest riel- , ed lo olilv in e. ! No IiOOKMAKEU-V <,»l EE It JOCK-,

, KYS. I!.. tkmaker.s ere not allowed. All lie! tin;/ 1- dmi" ihroiitdi the tm:ili-alin', mid "win" and | j|m' dividends am declared on a unit nl two |" sor approximately three and sixpence. While tin' warn-mi;; is wild and ill" excitement i 1:l <*i:>«■. it is iltntKi I ill whether such. lsifj.ce sums tire staked li.v i11"s in Knoliind. I lie daily "turnover” is. however. prohahly prrnter. YYliat m laipciy peritriar t t ine in: iiiy. is liio method of ridinj'. Tlioilj'li the lines! of lii itisii l;!i) alslock l a lifrii used t.i develop ihe I.reed of racehorses and I lie peneral system id cmitluet ill" meet i lies is l.ltil l 111 I'ln;.'la ltd. ! lie aid A n'tmt ine style of ritlinjc lilt- lieeti retained. Cnrli-ldts are list'd, and a plaiiod single rein is held lioht.ly in the left hand. The jot-key er. tithes over his mount, lint, scarcely uses his Innlle * hand ewept to exert the slightest pressure op the (III!) Ini hold or rlierk the horse. Me does not, ‘‘{let down” and ritle with lath liantis ns do Knp;lish and Australian jockeys. A\ hen Dnminf!ii Toi Lerolt). the Donojilme of ArjyenI ine horsemen, eame to Kipolnnd some years ngn lie was a dismal failure, pri lmhlv heeanse lie t *** nl tl not acensUun himself to a different system of viilini', and a crack Knidish jockey would never mannye an Are-entino llioroiif'lihrod trained to the “eriollo, or native style.