RACECOURSE RIOT.
buildings burnt and huts
DEMOLISHED.
POLICE ALMOST POWERLESS
By Telegraph-Press Assn.-Copyright.) (Received This Day, 12.15 p.m.) PARIS, February 9.
A false start at Vincennes trotting races led to the worst racecourse riot in France in a quarter of a century. Ten horses in the first race dashed off and completed the course, but were ordered to rejoin the remaining five and re-run the race, thereupon irate backers on the parimutuel were shouting, “We want our money back” and surged round the offices, brushed away the police, overturned or scattered the mounted police and wrecked everything in their path. They invaded the weighing room and press stand, fluug chairs and tables onto the course, demolished huts, pulled up stakes marking the course, flung down paddock railings and set fire to the parimutuel, which was burned to the ground. They then started fires in other buildings, which narrowly escaped the same fate. The stewards attempted to start the second race, but other rioters dug holes in the course. The police were reinforced and quelled the disorder, but the programme was abandoned.
The- parimutuel is the French equiva lent of the totalisator.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 10 February 1930, Page 5
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