RACE IN SEMI-DARKNESS
"Absolute .murder" was the comment of the newly-elected president of the Canterbury Owners' and Breeders' Association (Mr. T. G. Fox) at the annual meeting of the association in referring to a race run at Addington recently in semi-darkness. Mr. Fox said that the lives of thirteen of the country's best pacers were risked by a trotting club which had run a mile and a quarter race at a late hour. Only sheer grit and good reinsmanship had averted an accident in the race. Trainers had been ■■ begging matches and bicycle lamps to find their gear. The association was not going to tolerate such; late starting of races, and,- added Mr. Fox,, this-was a question which, as president of the association, he was going to take up..
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Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 74, 24 September 1936, Page 13
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129RACE IN SEMI-DARKNESS Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 74, 24 September 1936, Page 13
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