Tl l s handicaps for the fust day of tho Gore meting- wore due cm the 19th inst.. but as Mr Gibbs was not present at (ho North Olago meeting lie could not compile and present his handicaps on duo elate. Compilation of handicaps formed on secondhand information can never give satisfaction, particularly if they are based on the reports of sporting writers, who ('according to stipendiary steward Mr C. \V. T. MnrcliiBon) do not know what they are writing aboub The writer asserts that some racing officials can gather more information from a newspaper report than they apparently can see when viewing a race with their own eyes. Evidently Korkes Drift is not regarded as a bag number, as he figures amongst the nominations for tho Gore and Invercargill meetings.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3494, 22 February 1921, Page 39
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