TURF LIBEL CASE.
JUDGE'S SAGE COMMENTS
(Press Assn.— By Telegraph— Copyright.)
LONDON, July 17. At the hearing of the libel action which Robert Wooton, the ex-Austrailan trainer, is bringing against Robert Sievier, publisher of the Winning Post, Sievier, who defended himself, arguing from Excelsior's performance m the Welter at Newmarket, said tine horse ought to have won the Cambridgeshire Stakes. *..•,.-'
;fMr Justice Darling: This, all /assumes i
that 'horses' run 'with mathematical' pre-" cision, and therefore the best authority would be the Astronomer-Royal. (Laughter.) It is all assumption that horses are like atoms thrown m space, and that it is possible to caluculate the pace on any date."
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXX, Issue 13131, 18 July 1913, Page 3
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