RACING DURING THE WAR
ENGLISH (PROTESTS AGAINSTPROHIBITION. (Rec. May 14, 15.30 p.m.) LONDON, May 13. Sporting and sover.il other newspapers strongly urge the Government to<reconsider its decision to slop rncing. They point out the amount of oats consumed Dy horses in training is very small, and It'would be quite possible to stop waste of petrol by those motoring- to race meetings. I- Special race trains can also be, prohibited), but it is absurd to _ stop a few meetings, which' will provide the necessary test of horse breeding.' Germany 'and France continue racing.
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Nelson Evening Mail, 14 May 1917, Page 4
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