RACECOURSE RIOT
A TRAIL OF WRECKAGE SEQUEL TO FALSE START (Received Feb. 10, 2 p.m.) PARIS, Feb. 9. A false start at Vinceunes trotting races led to the worst racecourse riot in France in a quarter of a century. Ten horses in the first raec dashed off and completed the course, but were ordered to rejoin the remaining five and re-run the race. Thereupon irate backers on the pa.rimutuel, .shouting: "We want our money back," surged round the offices, brushed away the police, overturned or scattered mounted police, and wrecked everything in their path. They invaded the weighing room and the press stand, flung chairs and tables into the course, demolished huts, pulled np slakes marking the course, flung down paddock railings, and set fire jo the pariinutuel, which was burned to the ground. They then started fires in other buildings, which n'arrovvlV escaped the same hii.. 'the stewards attempted To mar! the second race, but Ihe riotous dug holes in the course. The police reinforcements' quelled the disorder, but the programme was abandoned.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17180, 10 February 1930, Page 6
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