CHINESE RACE MEETING.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19190, 2 December 1925, Page 10

CHINESE RACE MEETING.

AN UNPOPULAR VERDICT. CROWD ATTACK GRANDSTAND, [FROM OCR OWN' CORRESPONDENT.] SHANGHAI, October 17. At Shanghai, Hongkong, Peking, Hankow, etc., the British residents, with their inherent love for sport, have introduced horse racing. The "racehorses" consist of the hardy Manchurian ponies, similar to those used by Captain Scott in h;s Antarctic expedition. The Chinese hare also tried their hands at forming racing clubs, and the International Racing Club at Kiangwan, live miles north of Shanghai, which is managed by a joint Chinese and foreign committee,* is a huge success, but in other places race meetings rim solely by Chinese have sometimes been marred by certain unfortunate occurrences.

At a Chinese race meeting held at Hankow recently, the general public were not satisfied with the official verdict of the result of a race, and expressed their opinion in forcible language. Ihe judges then changed their decision and gave the result as a dead heat.

This verdict, however, did not appease the crowd, and a demand was made that the race should be run over again, or, as an alternative, that all money in the wav of bets, etc., should be returned. This, the stewards of the race club positively refused to do and the crowd proceeded to break up the grandstand and office. But for the intervention of the Chinese police, armed with rifles, the whole place would probably have been burned down.