AND HE'S QUITE RIGHT, TOO!

NZ Truth, Issue 1174, 31 May 1928, Page 11

AND HE'S QUITE RIGHT, TOO!

' "I HAVE never seen a more miserable lot of horses and I have never ■ seen a more miserable programme placed before horse-owners as was the case m connection with the New Year races at Marton. 'Surely weighty words coming as they did from the lips of Jim Bull, one of tbe best-known owners m the Dominion, and littje wonder they , have "set the whole town talking." Jim made this statement at the annual meeting of the Marton club this week, and while it made such stalwarts of the. club as R. E. Beckett and Jack Stanford sit up and take notice they had to agree that the owner of Brigadier was, m a large. measure, talking sense. It was to this fact that Jim attributed the £10,000 drop m totalisator returns and this, is only endorsing what "N.Z. Truth" said immediately after the meeting. . r .However, the Marton club has "taken a jerry" to the penny wise and pound foolish scheme and it is expected that stakes will go up over £600. ' i Let's hope so anyway, for what's the flood of one of the best racecourses holding • tin»pi>4 meotjnaT :. ; .