SO LIKE JOSEPH'S GOAT The Color Question In Trotting Demands Solution

NZ Truth, Issue 1190, 20 September 1928, Page 13

SO LIKE JOSEPH'S GOAT The Color Question In Trotting Demands Solution

(By "The Toff.")

P VERY now and then officials or owners have a cyaok at the ever-green subjects— a confusion of colors and nomenclature

BOTH are necessary .problems which need immediate attention, but receive little. ■'■■■• The color question cropped upagain at- the annual meeting of members of the Fqrbury , Park Trotting Club, ■where a student of the sport had the courage to make adverse comment on the conglomeration of colors that are paraded -these flays. . Some defy description^ in> racebooks and many combinations would puzzle a Philadelphia lawyer to discern thetrw .',-'./ ' Light* greens and pale blues look alike; so do dirty shellr pinks bear a close resemblance to dirty whites. 1 Then ' there are grey, with blue sleeves; white, blue sleeves; black with a blue cap;' and dark blue, with black ca,pj light blue and, cream hoops; light green and white hoops] and so On, . . , „'".. •' ■- : ',:." ':• ■ ■■•■-■■

How judges distinguish some colors at a finish heaven only knows! Often, i it . is stated, they offer up some kind of a prayer that horses carrying similar colors do not participate m a finish. Some day, there will be such a' mess-up over a similarity of silks and satins that a serious blunder . will occur. Then— and not until then will the authorities take notioe of the complaints that consistently at c being made about the oolop question. ; . v ; ■ - ..•■' " ■ ;■....- ; ■ . , And much the same, confusion Is being allowed to go along triumphantly m the naming of * horse's. One could recall 20 horses m Australia racing under the same name as horses m New Zealand. In one instance, tho Dominion can boast of two horses of the same nanio.