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Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 4148, 19 November 1920, Page 5

The Hawke's Bay sportsman Mr T. 11. Lowry, in a private letter to the Auckland Star, gives his impressions of the four days racing at Doncaster, England, at which he was present. 'Tho crowd, be states,was enormous, being estimated at 300,000, which is claimed to a Avorld's record. The commodation was poor in every way, all the old gigs, carts, lorries, and even donkey carts, being used to carry the people to the-course, the ATonderful part being the manner in which the police pontrolled the traffic. The racing was good and the finishes close in most of the events, but outside the betting there was no general interest or enthusiasm about the results—in fact the maiden steeplechase at Hastings Avould create more excitement. In Mr Lowry's opinion the starters in the St. Leger nearly all looked as if they had done too much racing, although Caligula. Avas an exceptional, appearing much fresher than the others.