ANOTHER BID

NZ Truth, Issue 1183, 2 August 1928, Page 11

ANOTHER BID

But: Auctioneer I? Very Deaf (From "N.Z. Truth's" Special Auclclano Rep.) Egmont Racing Club has certainly faced the matter boldly by recommending the Goverhnjent to legalize the telegraphing of investments to the totalisator and the . publication of dividends. THEY further urge the Racing Conference to re-introdu(fe wireless broadcasting:. V \" ilt all reads very .well, but just what action' the oovernment ■■ will take is another matter. .' So far as wiring money to the course and the publishing of dividends is concerned, it has always been a puzzle to most racing enthusiasts why such -restrictions were ever imposed upon us; An echo of stilted pettifogging surely? ■■■ - : '■;- 'o ■ ■■ '■■■■ . ■ Certainly, it has always appealed as the: : "penny wise and pound foolish" attitude to adopt. - . ■' We know-— well, what we know.

AFTER winning the big handicap the ** first day at" Gisborne, Patukl looked a good thing m the Hurdles on the Saturday. • • ' He never went a yard, being" all tied up behind — kidney trouble, probably. As Allan McDonald remarked: "His hindquarters didn't belong to him."