THE BRITISH CAVALRY HORSE.

Northern Advocate, 30 June 1917, Page 1

THE BRITISH CAVALRY HORSE.

"Apart from the Government's action," Mr Isit't asked, "is not the action of the racing magnates a little disappointing after the assurance we have had from Sir George Clifford that his whole soul is filled with a desire to minister to the improvement of the British cavalry horse? Surely he might have suggested to the Government that it would be well to limit mile races to, say, two a day, seeing that racing men are declaring that the youngsters subject to these scrambles are breaking down at such a rate that there are not 15 per cent, of them who are not crocks unfit for long distance races by the time they are five years old. Might we not have expected from gentlemen who pose as British sports, and not the mere upholders of gambling machines, some protest against the strapping of trotters, which absolutely renders the animals useless for any other purposes so soon as their racing days are over? Ido not think [ voice the opinion of the extremist, but the consensus of opinion of the man in the street is that the whole business is homeopathic, and disappointing to a degree. What the country men will say to an arrangement that is so disproportionately in favour of the city as agaiust the rural district, I can only surmise. Frankly, lam interested in lessening racing, and think that the less any district has of it the better for the district; but, at the same time, there is no excuse for men who believe in racing appropriating the lion's share for their own big centres."