The following Is from the pen of ja. well-known Sydney writer: — "The term, 'good sportsman/ as applied /to some owners, always makes me smjiie. There are rich men who keep close Jaccount of every penny the sport cbsts them, find fault when their horsey fail to' win, and ore not particularly liberal to their trainers or riders when? successful m important races. Still, because of their prominence, /either financially or socially, they arfo 'good sportsmen.' The 'battler' who. struggles along with *a couple of/ leased horses ia really a better sportsman .than men who, while iti a ftbsitlon to spend thousands on any hoWby, would never have associated themselves with racing as owners unlesJs they had believed they would, at least, succeed In covering expenses, eveM. if they failed to moke a good promt."
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NZ Truth, Issue 483, 19 September 1914, Page 7
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134Untitled NZ Truth, Issue 483, 19 September 1914, Page 7
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