JUMPING RACES
SUGGbSriON Oh DANGtK. WOMEN CAUSE AMUSEMENT IN ENGLAND. In a discussion of the advocacy by the R.S.P.C.A. for the abolition of hurdling on the grounds of cruelty to horses, trainer N. McKenna scoflcd at the idea of the brush hurdles now being used causing injury to horses, states the ‘’Sydney Referee." Practical men will agree with him on that score. Accidents in hurdle races are comparatively few. The R.S.P.C.A.'s ideas as Io the danger of jumping races would be treated with amusement in England, where, despite, snow, frost, and fog. racing from the end of November until to-
wards the close of March, is, as nearly as possible, confined to hurdling and stecplechasing, with a large percentage of women among the owners. They must be much more stony-hearted than the members of the R.S.P.C.A.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 July 1939, Page 9
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136JUMPING RACES Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 July 1939, Page 9
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