RACING IN WAR-TIME.
SUGGESTED REDUCTION. PRESIDENT AGAINST PROPOSAL [BY telegraph.OWN ;ui;F.r-f .::.!• : ] CriKl'T'-.arß-fT. M.-.DC3T. The South Canterbury Jockey Club r» centiy passed a resolution urging the president cf the Racing Ccnfercr.ee to call a meeting to corn-id* - !' the ad visa oil: *.v of .irdj'.ing the amcui.. at racing ■■■ -i -Q Dominion during the wa Sir G-orze Clifford's reply, which stated merelv that he could not accede to the request, try. discussed by the committee of '.:.•" Jock?y Ciub. and it v. as resolved to ask S;r George to give reasons for re:'us;r.g ifrequest. The commutes itself made a move in the direction of reducing racing by deleting the two steeplechases from the autumn programme, thus providing cnlj seven races for each day.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16123, 11 January 1916, Page 6
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