DUMMY STIPENDIARIES

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 81, 3 October 1938, Page 13

DUMMY STIPENDIARIES

There is far too much talk today of horses not being raced all out and of riders pulling horses. All this talk would surely have to cease if wax or papier-mache figures were made of the three paid secretaries, or stipendiaries as most racegoers call them, and these effigies were placed at frequent intervals round the course, comments an English writer in semi-humorous vein.' Several such effigies might be made of Lord Lonsdale on his chestnut charger or on that wonderful pony which used to carry him at Newmarket. These wax, or papier-mache, Lord Lonsdales might be dotted about Newmarket Heath on racedays. Jockeys riding in the race would not know which of the figures was the real and very active steward on his horse, or pony, any more than they would know which of the figures was the real paid secretary. They would surely then be too terrified to do the awful things that they are supposed to do. To make the figures more lifelike some mechanism could be inserted in their empty insides which would make the i Lord Lonsdales appear to be smoking cigars and the paid secretaries to put up and down occasionally their raceglasses.