CHINESE RACE MEETING.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 4921, 4 January 1926, Page 3

CHINESE RACE MEETING.

CROWD ATTACK GRANDSTAND.

DISSATISFIED WITH JUDGING. At Shanghai, Hong-Kong, Peking, Hankow, etc., the British residents, with tlieir inherent love for sport, have introduced horse racing. The “racehorses” consist of .the hardy Manchurian ponies, similar to those used by Captain. Scott in his, Antarctic expedition. The Chinese have also, tried their hand at forming racing clubs,-and the International Racing Club' at Kaingwan, five miles north of Shanghai, which is managed by a joint Chinese and foreign committee, is a huge success, but in other places race meetings rwn solely by Chinese have sometimes, been marred by certain unfortunate occurrences.

At a Chinese race meeting held at Hankow recently the general public were not satisfied with the official verdict of the result of a race and expressed their opinion in forcible language. The judges then changed their decision and gave the result a dead heat.

This verdict, however, did not appease the crowd, and a demand was made that the race should be rim over again, or, as an alternative, that all money in the way of bets, etc., should be returned.

This the stewards of the race club positively refused to do, and the crowd proceeded to break up the grandstand and o.ffice. But for the intervention of the Chinese police, armed with rifles, the whole place would probably have been burned down.