FREE FOR ALLS.
ARE THEY DOOMED? Sport, like everything else, sometimes becomes gripped in a craze, arid when a couple of seasons ago Free For Alls received quite, a lot of unnecessary limelight, many clubs, which had previously been content ( to confine their programmes to handicaps, decided to make an alteration and put on a Free For All. It was thought that such races would attract the best horses, and give rise to stirring contests, but taking a broad view of the result, the Free For Alls were not the success it was anticipated and hoped they would be. The fields were small, three to six horses at most competing, and it is doubtful if the contests aroused as much excitement as a good second-rate handicap. Then again the starting, in most cases due to the drivers, was unsatisfactory. The amount of betting was small, and it is extremely doubtful if any Free For All' yet staged in the Dominion was a payable proposition to a club.
It will be some weeks yet before the programme's for next season are drawn up, and decided upon, but I feel confident that the future of Free For Alls in Auckland is seriously threatened. I have no authentic information for saying so, out X will be very much surprised if in next season's programmes of the Auckland or Otahuhu Trotting Clubs a Free For All will be given a place.
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Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 152, 29 June 1926, Page 9
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237FREE FOR ALLS. Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 152, 29 June 1926, Page 9
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