England Learning from Australia.

Auckland Star, Volume XV, Issue 3723, 18 July 1882, Page 3

England Learning from Australia.

" Anglo-Anstralian" writes in the European Mail .-—lnstances are constantly cropping up where people at home find themselves instructed by Australia. A sporting paper has just drawn attention to race cards in order to show that Australians are ahead of us in the matter. The writer says : "In place of the clumsy card, neat little books are issued at the principal Antipodean meetings, containing the names, weights, and colours of riders, as a matter of course to begin with—a matter of course hi a double sense In addition to this there are some blank leaves on which the sportsman can pencil down bets, make notes, eic, and in a meeting extending over several days the results of the previous racing are printed for reference — a most convenient arrangement. To struggle with a newspaper in a high wind for the purpose of finding out what weight one horse carried yesterday, and how much another was beaten by, is trying to the temper, and necessarily involves the trouble of carrying the paper about in one's pocket. The Australian book is therefore extremely useful. In certatn cases the results of running which bear on the races of the day are included. Who will be the first to introduce this capital idei at home ?"