RACING PROBLEM.

Clutha Leader, Volume I, Issue 31, 11 February 1875, Page 3

RACING PROBLEM.

I. " Race Horse" writes lfo us as follows :-i Sir,— lf you; will ventilate the following point connected- -with 'i wding "pd*rßui*w f through your eoJ«miu n j; will feel obliged. At the same time I would ask your readers \ heir opinion on tlitf subject. Although tfiftj question has to mf kriowi-kge been mooted '" m;racing.cirde^;aaa imonist! itewards-an-a J judges it, has not, jw> far as I can lear-o^-been: t as yet seriously, qpnsider^ ; . A t *y events!** im right m saying it has not been dftfiofteiy settled either' one "Way or auoihfi.'^Se point in dispute is this. Where! a provision A is made^thata particular- raoe is, open ta'horses only, situated >itHm a given num. ~ ', er v? f P^ce Where the club is established, does- that mean within a radius of so many miles,! or, within^ *o many miles along- the line of road ? My own case will beat elucidate the proposition^ Iliye. on -the ;wcst3bank zotrMe Mutba, within fifteen or sixteen miles of Tuapeka as the crow flies; "Before^ l 'din,•get there, however, I have to look out for a fordable pace for^Whgf&Slnver.. 5 Jit 1 got by Balclatha.l haye-between thirty •ad forty miles to travel, arid' if l g0 by th* geaumpnt: I save a few miles, but not sufficient to bring me within, the prescribea » m « Pta yacefrom which horßesj>ser_fla»_ twenty miles, are excluded* : * You.wUlseJ" now what I mean, ;wheh I asfc^Does a proviso regarding distance within which horses, are qualified to, run, signify aradiusfor, does ltmean rilongniaih roads in a ItireW ,hne? . ... r • , TT -**