SPORTING.
THE LATE RACES. To the Editor. onr very interesting mfeti lg just concluded was, I am sure, a huge financial success. If one could judge by the lovely ladies, beautiful dresses, cordial smiles, angelic laughter, and ihc gay throng, it was socially ditto. The only discordant note was the running of some of thee ontestants. When will a body of stewards arise with sufficient backbone to put down once for all the human parasites who are travelling horses from place to place and making their living on the gullibility of the snorting public. Not since the days of the ''Ranana meeting" have there been two such glaring cases happen, one of them right under the stewards' which was palpable even to the unitiated. It was common talk after this race that all wires available were used to back a horse in the race which couldn't win, and the winner paid a false price. If this ,<ort of thing goo- on it is bound to kill the goose that lays the golden ogg—the public.—l am, etc., "SPERO meliora/' Now Plymouth.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 320, 21 February 1910, Page 5
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180SPORTING. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 320, 21 February 1910, Page 5
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