AUSTRALIAN TURF
EXAAIPLE TO DOAIINION. VISITOR’S lAIPRESSIONS. “We are children in racing here. I think the Australian meetings are wonderfully well conducted. They seem to have a good lot of three-year-olds coming on this year,”. remarked Air E. J. Nathan, of Palmerston North, in ail, interview this morning, when he spoke of various phases of his recent trip to Australia. He had been most impressed with the very expert manner in which the Australian meetings were conducted; .they did not commence till. 1.'30, but were over about 4.30. The system was totally different from New Zealand’s. The breeding of thoroughbreds in Victoria had become really an industry in itself. .V'. The starting-price bookmaker was being dealt with severely in Brisbane, Air Nathan-had' been given to understand ; in Adelaide starting-price betting shops were in operation, The Bendigo and Geelong meetings had proved very interesting. They were dependent on horses irom Alelbourne and the racing clubs put on special trains to convey the horses to and ffom the course on the day of the meeting. If the horses won the owners made a contribution, but if they failed to win they did not have to pay anything towards the cost. .
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 235, 3 September 1937, Page 2
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198AUSTRALIAN TURF Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 235, 3 September 1937, Page 2
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