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New Zealand Times, Volume XLVII, Issue 10956, 19 July 1921, Page 8

Regarding the action of the Racing Conference in deciding to restrain owners from giving their horses names embody* ing personal, political and controversial allusion.s. and inconvenient or unseemly word*, the “Wairara.pa Age** says:—"lt would be a very serious matter, for instance, if at & place like Rdccarton or Trentham, the black horse 'Ueuiry Hoi* land, M.P.,’ were to run first habitually, leaving the chestnut cold 'William Massey* unplaced, or if at Opald ‘Red Star* should run. first, 'Gladstone* second, 'Masterton* third. These things wo dare not contemplate, and the Racing Conference confers a favour on the whole country by preventing thorn from occurring. It is now suggested to ban adjectives and adverbs and more acclamations like ‘Look here 1* This would do away with names like 'Ruddy* and 'ftladful,* and. would cheat the enterprising owner of such names as "Arf a Mo* ’ 'Not 'Arf* and 'Eh. WJiat..* The day of the Maori names seems to have passed for a while, and the New Zealand Turf Register is strikingly English. There were only three placed horses with Maori, names at Trentham on Wednesdaj*.’* J. Tlinnsell. the nippy, little half-back of the Dannevirke Athletic Club, and who was recently on tour with the Hawke s Bay representative teams t'says the Wanganui ‘‘Herald*'), has received notice of his transfer to Wellington, and i*- louring for the capital a*t an early date. He will lx? a big loss to Dannev’rka football, and a great acquisition to Wellington. "Only Brave Men Wanted in the Test ALiitdies is the heading one English Paper puts to an article urging 'player* to overcome the creeping < paralysi* of fear *ind Icu-or. ami face the Australians* howling bold!y and hit it. 1 for tontlis and Colds, never fuils. Woods' Great Peppermint Cur-