STUD AND FRUIT FARM
Although Phar Lap is dead, Mr. D. J. Davis, his owner, has made the best of his prolonged residence in the United States and has now a flourishing racing stud and fruit farm at Cupertino, in the Santa Clara Valley, said the Hon. Eliot R. Davis, M.L.C., who returned to Auckland last week after a visit abroad, during which he was the guest of his namesake. Mr. D. J. Davis, he said, had been the prime mover in the formation of a,race track at Bay Meadows, about 25 miles from San Francisco. It possessed fine equipment and the dirt track was particularly fast, being slightly over a mile round. All horses were started from a gate drawn to various starting posts, so that any restive horse would not interfere with the remainder of the field. Mr. Davis said he had been greatly fascinated' by the remarkable method of photographing the finish ,of races, now generally employed in the United States and Canada. By this method any doubt as to the placing of horses was removed'and judges of racing were being supported in their demand for'the camera by the insistence of the public.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 59, 7 September 1937, Page 15
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196STUD AND FRUIT FARM Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 59, 7 September 1937, Page 15
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