RACING CLUB'S MISFORTUNE

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 148, 15 February 1932, Page 4

RACING CLUB'S MISFORTUNE

Racing writers, bettors, race clubs, and the public generally, may 'take uiito account many things when summing upi a race meeting's' prospects, arid reach a tolerable approximatioh of the possibilities, but there is1 Bne fact of Wli'ich 'the vagaries cannot be f oretold with any degr ee of accuracy. The fact is bad weather. 'It was the harde'st of hard luckTor the Rotorua Racirig Glub on Saturday,' that stfeady and persistent rain caused the track to becoriie so dangerous that the meeting had. to be postponed after the second race Ead been contested. vThisunfbrtunate contingency could not have been foreseen. With a rising bar'ometer on -Saturday mdrning, and the town full of visitors for the faces, the club:was jtistified in lts decision to proceed, despite the theh u'npromisihg ' visible outlook. The fact that the club's hbpes'' Were "doome'd ;'to" disdppointment when the rain failed fo, Iift, Was nq.'fault/of the OTcihls but merely a piece of particularTy bad' Ija'ck' fQri'all conceriied.j With two spills in two yaces as a- guide,," the. decision io ppstpdne the rest of tlie meeting' in order to avoid unnecessary danger-to life and limb was wise, and ' the only one- possible. It was unfortdnate for. visitors, many of whorn had 'travelled' a considerable distande to. the 'meeting, ' .but this must be philosophically regarded as part 'of 'the luck"Jqf the gaihb.l It iS lifedW that the dub|will receive a serious setback, 1 but"uridQubtedly it is ah'institution of considerable value'to' the j^T^&^ea^on ' it,is#]td. *1?^ j "ued that local sportsmen^nd residents wSI accp|;d tHe fullest support to the rest of the p'ro-* glrapime 'tofday! a"pd to-morrow.in order that tjhe reverse may be I ; mlnimised" as -f ar as possibie, -^nd the club maihtaiiled m its posil diibh as'ohe of the outstanding "sjiorting organisations .of the town Ahd'-disMctr * : : •' " "f J ■■. .v