Racing or Sprinting.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4437, 17 July 1909, Page 3

Racing or Sprinting.

A young and industrious journalist has been looking up the deeds prowegs pf equines of the pfegept fpr the purrose of refutiug ouie suggestion that there are too many spidery weeds and not enough racehorses in New Zealand. the conclusion that he arrives at pursuing a tortuous course along • the plough is that the sooner racing authorities insist on clubs holding tote permits putting some decent distance events on their programmes the better. TJp tq the present thp game bag beep to, get entries honestly "if yop 'cah, but get them. The consequence is that a lot of three-legged animals have been seen out in public whose appearance indicated that they were by Fond Anticipation, out of Desperate Hope. Tne totalisator is a hindrance to horse breeding when ifs phief whtsiou is pf a revenue proper. The tote and the books together will kill racing and racehorses unless the Wellington Racing Club’s example is followed. The experiment wjU watched wjth interest.—N./?. Time?.