HIGH JUMPS AT SHOWS.
RESTORATION IN MELBOURNE PENALTIES FOR CRUELTY. [from our own correspondent.] SYDNEY, May 18. The high jump will be reintroduced at the Melbourne Royal Show this year and the Royal Agricultural Society is looking forward to enhanced revenue as a consequence. The experiment of cutting out the high jump as a ring attraction was made in 1926, and while thefo were doubts as to its wisdom, it was repeated last year. On each occasion the attendance decreased and it was reasonable to 'infer that the chief cause of the decline of revenue was the lack of the high jump, which in former years had been considered the star attraction. The chief objection tc the jump is that it may involve cruelty. Somo opponents contend that it is of no practical value. But the two years' experience at the Royal Show of elimination of the ©vent has proved that the public likes to see it as a ring feature. Some concession has been made to those who think there is an ele- . ment of cruelty in forcing a horse to jump over a high fence by making provision in the conditions of the contests for penalties in t.he event of cruelty*
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19958, 29 May 1928, Page 10
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