Horsepower
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WHIM-WHAM
{The action of the transport authorities in further restricting the activities of horse floats during the period that railway festrictions are in force, is bringing racing to a complete standstill.Newspaper comment.] HE Horse once carried Man, All in the natural course; Man now must furnish Means For carrying the Horse: The Beast must tour in State To Sport’s appointed Places Because if he did not, How could we have our Races? UT I should like to see (At least in times of War) The Horse transport Itself, Exactly as before: Tt has the Wind and Limb To take it round the TrackWhy shouldn’t its own Steam Propel it There, and Back? HY shouldn’t Spavin’s Pride Be ridden all the Way From Bluff to Riccarton To run on National Day? Or Stagger Home jog back With Owner, Cup, and All Two Hundred Miles or So, And count his Trouble small? ND if he cannot stand That simple Sort of Test, The Breeders have produced A Brute, at Best; A Gambler’s Doll on Wheels Conveyed from Course to Course By Those whose Trade is putting Float before the Horse!
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 10, Issue 244, 25 February 1944, Page 2
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190Horsepower New Zealand Listener, Volume 10, Issue 244, 25 February 1944, Page 2
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