TIME'S CHANGES.
The race card for cup day at EHerelie lists some score of horses carrying the colours of lady owners. Memory goes back to my first v»it to Ellerelie, in 1887 I think; at any,rate, it was the year Impulse won the' Easter' Handieap. In those far-off dayajiittwa* almost a sin in the eyes of the.average Auckland ■Nonconformist mind | for t ladies to go a-racing. The upper-crust never went. Now, it seems, racing could hardly exist without them. Time, changes. 'Father Mac Donald regularly ; attended on his charger to give the meeting some semblance of sanctity.-Until more recent years any lady who took her place in | the totalisator queue, well, she certainly was not a lady. Another change can here be noted. J.W.W.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 309, 30 December 1940, Page 6
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