Christchurch Goes Gay Next Week

Radio Record, Volume VII, Issue 4, 4 August 1933, Page 2

Christchurch Goes Gay Next Week

"Tf wishes were horses Beggars would ride... -" Yes, and if wishes were radio sets every impecunious admirer of horseflesh in the Dominion would be taking advantage of the Broadcasting Board’s great national link-up to keep the whole of New Zealand in touch with the stirring events at the great racing and trotting carnival of Grand National Week in Christchurch. All the world and his dog will want to be ere oc Bettin® on the horses when they've never seen a horse... ° _ Some of them’ll be betting on the Judgment Day. _ If you can’t be there in the flesh you can see the saces vividly by courtesy of your radio-perhaps so vividly . You'll see your horse Take forty winks upon the course. ®. ou’ll capture some of that glorious panorama of the flying colours, the broad rainbow of the dresses on the esreens. the iostle

and rush of the crowds and the persistent jangle of the totalisator bell, the bright faces and the long faces of those who . have ~pisked thew YESOUrGES We ith. courage‘serene>. Onvarious horses" They never have.seen. The 5 Grand. National Steeplechasé ‘on the. first. day;: ‘Tuesday, August 8, of » the Canterbury. J ockey . Club’s. Grand ©" .National thred-day, aneéeting, is recop- i nised as the. supreme jumping, test of: ‘the swititer tacing campaign, and the course. is acknowledgéd:as the stiff>"~ est steeplechase. country in — New: Zealand. : The records. of "thig"tacé show that. none but really good horses have.ever survived the stern elimination to win this . event.. Soif your favourite . falls -you «may console

© yourself with A. P. Herbert that " ... Though your horse fell And you're robbed of your packet, You knew very well . You were dead right to back it." The Winter Cup, also on the first day, is recognised as the most difficult mile race in New Zealand. In the language of the experts, anything might happen and Some exceptional chance Which none could foresee © Might delay the advance Of your excellent gee. What owners and trainers regard as the "second leg" of the Grand National double, the Grand National Hurdles, on the second day’s racing, invariably sifts "out a jumper and a stayer of the highest class in the winner, as it is the longest hurdle race in New Zealand -two miles and a half. The New Zealand Metropolitan Trotting Club is invariably granted the hon-

our of starting the new trotting season, which opens on August 1, with its national meeting at Addington. On the first day, August 5, the August Handicap is the first big handicap race of the new season in the Dominion. It is for tight-class . horses, over two miles. The International Handicap, ‘a. fast class mile, is also on the first day. cot The King George and the Speedway Handicaps, of two miles and a mile and a quarter respectively, are the star. items. of the ‘second day. All the trotting events -focus the attention of followers of form ‘as, being the first events in the new season, they give a definite guide to horses likely to be in top form for the big spring meetings. Next week, too, Christ(Continued, on page 46.),

Christchurch Goes Gay ; (Continued from Page 2.) ' ehurch will put its social leg forward and the whirl will be a giddy one while i lasts. On Monday evening the Bauks Peninsula Cruising Club will launch the evening guieties with a dance in the Canterbury Automobile Association's ‘rooms: on Tuesday the Christchurch ‘Hunt Club will held its usual Grand Nativnal functiou-an event for dia monds and ermine. A new fixture will make its debut on Wednesday evening --the Citizens’ Ball, arranged by a large committee to ussist the Mayor’s und. Friday night the Caledonian Hall will become a Tyrolean beer garden for the Plunket Society's unuua) event. The socfety’s dance last yeur. the Cabaret Comique in the Winter Garden Cabaret, was the most bhilariously successful dunce on the year’s social calendar. On the same evening the Cathedral Grammar School Old Boys will hold a dance. As a con: elusion to the week’s festivities th» officers of the Royal Nayal Voluntee: Reserve will hold a dance at their head quarters on Saturday evening,