AN IDEA FROM AMERICA
An interesting innovation is promised by the Victoria Amateur Turf Club for its Autumn Meeting at Caulfield this month. This is the adoption of the American style of numbered saddle-cloths. Specimens with red and black numbers were recently received from California. It is likely that the black numbers on white cloths will be the colour chosen.
The numerals at present in use measure six and a half inches deep and three and three-quarter inches wide for single numbers and six and a quarter deep and five and a half inches wide for double. The American idea provides for measurements of •. eleven inches deep and six inches wide for single numbers, with eleven inches deep and nine inches wide for double. The Americans place their numerals on saddle-cloths two feet by seventeen and a half inches, but something somewhat smaller is likely at Caulfield,
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Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 31, 6 February 1936, Page 17
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147AN IDEA FROM AMERICA Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 31, 6 February 1936, Page 17
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