RACING CLUB
FORMED BY NEW ZEALANDERS IN CAIRO. (N.Z.E.F. Official News Service.) CAIRO, April 19. Our sappers have shown enterprise in play as well as work. The Tura Racing Club, their creation for meetings of Arab horses, recruited locally, and racing camels borfowed from the Egyptian police, is not a burlesque. The totalisator turnover averages £5OO and 4000 people attend. The principal trophy is the Chrystall Cup, given by Brigadier Chrystall, a former Canterbury farmer, and now a British regular. The latest addition, the R.A.F. Cup, was turned out at the R.A.F. workshops. ______
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 April 1943, Page 3
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93RACING CLUB Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 April 1943, Page 3
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