SPRINKLERS TURN RANDWICK COURSE INTO BOG
SYDNEY, This Day (Rec. 1.30 p.m,).—The artificial flooding of Randwick racecourse resulted in today’s meeting being postponed. Very little rain fell last night, but the course sprinklers were left on by mistake and the course was heavily flooded this morning.
The police have been called in to investigate the flooding. The sprinklers, which are along the top of the running rail, were turned on from the five furlongs to the winning post and sections of the straight today are a bog. . . . A later message says that it is now believed that cranks were responsible, but course officials said that whoever turned on the sprinklers knew how they operated and how-to direct the water over the course. The happening is made the more mysterious as watchmen are on duty throughout the night. The meeting scheduled for todaywill be held tomorrow.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 5 October 1949, Page 5
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