NATIONAL HUNT SEASON
Early in December in England two jumping meetings .had to be abandoned. Before abandoning their meeting the Haydock Park stewards ordered a horse to be galloped over the length of the straight. When the horse had completed the gallop its hoofs were filled with snow. The bends in the racecourse were also found to be treacherous, and the stewards decided they could not do otherwise than abandon the meeting. At Leicester snow also disposed of the two days' meeting. Altogether since the commencement o£ the National Hunt season in August, 13 days' racing had been lost till early in December. Nine were abandoned in September and October because of hard gp.tng, and with the later ones It was because of snow.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 28, 3 February 1938, Page 13
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124NATIONAL HUNT SEASON Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 28, 3 February 1938, Page 13
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