REMINDER FOR OWNERS
Acceptances for the Rangitikei Racing Club's Spring Meeting on Saturday are due at 9 o'clock this evening. The betting at the meeting will be under the win-and-place system.
Some jockeys in Australia may be exempted from compulsory military training on the ground that camp life would so increase their weight as to affect their potential earning capacity as riders for the.,rest ...of their life. "In three months' camp training men often put on 101b or more in weight," a military authority said. "The effect on a lightweight jockey is obvious. It may handicap tab, profcssionallx foe life,"
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 104, 29 October 1940, Page 14
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100REMINDER FOR OWNERS Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 104, 29 October 1940, Page 14
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