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Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20543, 11 May 1932, Page 7

The oldest horse race in England is that of Kiplingcotes—lately run over a four-mile course on the Yorkshire Wolds near Market Weighton. Inaugurated in 1519, the race is run annually the third Thursday.in March. The course, which is reputed to have been used for racing in the reign of Richard 111., passes through the parishes of Eton Lund, Goodmaniiam, and Middleton-on-the-Wolds, and finishes at a point above Londesborough Wold. The prize money, which amounts to about £B, is derived from a sum invested in Consols. The entrance fee of £4 for each horse must be paid to the Clerk of th« Course near the winning post by 11 o'clock on the morning of the race. Frankie Mitchell, a Los Angeles boy, is the envy of his playmates, for his father owns the California concern that is sai'd to turn out the majority of agate marbles used in the United States. Fourton blocks of onyx furnish raw material from which they are made. The blocks are neatly" sliced into slabs' seven-eighths of an inch thick, and these in turn are cut '.into cubes. Then the cubes are carried in trays of 200, to a rotary grinder, whore they become spheres. ■After a final polishing and calipecing' for- size, the marbles afe ready to 'be sold. . .-.'..