RACING AMALGAMATION
(ONITBD TItESS ASSOCIATION.—COPYRIGHT.) SYDNEY, 28th November. Tfye Government has dropped the idea of passing legislation tin's session to give . effect to the racing, amalgamation, owing to the fact that the variotrs interests have not yet arrived at an agreement.
A previous message stated:—The Aus-tra-lum Jockey Club has submitted a scheme to the Government for the improvement and curtailment of racing. The club proposes to' acquire Moorefield and Warwick' Farm racecourses and reduce the fixtures to prevent clashing, thereby largely increasing the prize-money, attracting the . best- horses, and removing the menace to legitimate sport which the present unlimited fixtures threaten. The clubs concerned have mutually agreed to accept reduction by eighteen pony meetings, fourteen metropolitan trot's, and eighty provincial meetings. This leaves sixty-two registered horse meetings, fifty-four unregistered pony, and twenty-six trot-teg meetings in tlis metropolitan area-, besides about fifty provir-.cial mMtinfis. The nchesua i'Ccuiires )?aEliameata_y. M_ction.
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Evening Post, Volume XCVIII, Issue 130, 29 November 1919, Page 4
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148RACING AMALGAMATION Evening Post, Volume XCVIII, Issue 130, 29 November 1919, Page 4
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