SIDEY TIME COMPLICATIONS
DURING the summer meeting of the Forbury Park Trotting Club considerable grumbling by every section engaged in the sport was indulged in regarding the late hour of starting and completing each afternoon’s racing, says a Southern writer. Why the officials decided to start the last race each day at 6.15 p.m. no one seemed to know. No doubt the late hour salected by the club cost it several hundreds of pounds, for Southern sportsmen had to leave the course after the fifth race on Saturday to catch their trains. Then again, many enthusiasts who live in Southland would not go to the expense of visiting the meeting if they had to leave when the programme was half-completed. Even from the viewpoint of city supporters the late hour at which the last race was run made it inconvenient for them to get home in time to go to any entertainment in the evening. Then one should have heard the complimentary references made by the hotelkeepers who had to pay their staffs overtime so that their guests could have dinner on their arrival from the course!
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 272, 7 February 1928, Page 11
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187SIDEY TIME COMPLICATIONS Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 272, 7 February 1928, Page 11
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