STALL STARTS SOON

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22197, 6 December 1946, Page 2 (Supplement)

STALL STARTS SOON

RANDWICK DESPATCHES

Starting - boxes and photo-finish equipment may be in t'uli use at Randwick early in the new year. The camera equipment will be similar to that in use at rfiemirigton, and it is almost certain that the starting stalls will be permanent constructions and not of the mobile type, states the Sydney Morning Herald.

Erection of the starting stalls at the mile, *he seven furlongs, the six furlongs. and the five furlongs does not present difficulty. Each of those starts is from a deadend, and the stalls would not represent an obstruction to the running of other races.

The stalls will not interfere with the size of fields, because of the width of track avaidable. Probably up to .27 runners would be provided for, which is a field as large as the club would seek to run.

From other slarling points, however, there are difficulties which are being considered. A mobile unit may not be totally satisfactory on a turf track in wet weather because of damage to the surface. The alternative seems to be some arrangement, say for starts made in the straight whereby the stalls could be drawn off the track into enclosures, or swivelled, to the outside fence.