PIT PONIES RACE
A novel race meeting took place at Doncaster over tho training course, in aid of the Doncaster distress funds for feeding miners' Children. The principal event on the oard of six races was tho St. Leger for pit ponies up to 131 hands, for a. cup presented by the Mayor of Donoaster. There were 32 entries, and the race had to be run in two boats. The chairman of the Doneaster Race Committee wa9 the judge, and the officials of the various' Yorkshire collieries acted as stewards and referees. Nearly all 'tho well-known collieries of South Yorkshire were represented in tho raoing. Tho ponies were 6O well groomed and so ■smartened up that they were scarcely recognisable, and the jockeys wore pony drivers in the colours of their colliery football olubs. All tho ponies were saddled, and no whips or spurs wore allowed. 'Thirty thousand people paid a •billing' Mob lor Mbuwnion.
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Evening Post, Volume CII, Issue 35, 10 August 1921, Page 3
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