CONDUCT OF RACING
Sir, —Regarding remarks made by certain racing officials, please allow me, as an old-time supporter of “clean” racing, to ask those gentlemen if they consider it is “clean” to train horses with the colours up, to allow half a dozen or more horses in the one stable to be separated on the machine, and to take from the public nearly 4s, including fractions and Government tax, out of every pound on each and every race? —Yours, etc., PHYSICIAN HEAL THYSELF, February 9, 1949. [Mr D. E. Wanklyn, president of the Canterbury Jockey Club, to whom this letter was referred, said: “The first allegation is not true; the second contains a gross exaggeration; and the third a ‘suggestio falsi.’ The clubs get Is 6d in the £; the Government about 2s 7d; and fractions average about a farthing. I suggest that ‘Physician’ should prescribe himself a liver pill which might improve his temper and his vision.”]
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Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25766, 30 March 1949, Page 3
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