IS IT TOO LONG?

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 122, 25 May 1928, Page 11

IS IT TOO LONG?

V... ; .TIME BETWEEN;RICES- ': . (By Telegraph.) (Special to "The Evening Post") CHEISTCHURCH, This Day. The opinion that the time between races was too long was expressed at the annual meeting of the .Canterbury Joe,.koy .Clul/yosM'day:'-'! :? '"' ■:*' ' „.Mr. J. S. Barrett ..said that he thought publicity should be given to the intention of the club to forward a remit to. the Eacing Conference designed to shorten the time between races. He was sure the proposal would mt-et with the approval of members. .Forty minutes between races and fifty minutes for lunch were, he'thought, too long. Thirty minute intervals had been .suggested,, and the remit now provided for thirfy-Ave minutes. ■• iYo club, however, ;.w.as Agoing .'to. .take '. the initiative of., chancing ~it. It might mean that .they need not start till after lunch. In ! Sydney ho had attended a race meeting that had started at 12.15 and finished at 4.15, and there had been thirteen races in that time. "So you' see," he added, "it can be done." ' Mr. George Gould agreed that they •did -take top long between races. One .club' alone, .hqwever, could not educate the puttie, who hajj certain, habits. It would tie desirable if the trotting-people would move in the. same direction. They would help very largely if they did so.