DORMANT OFFICIALS.
To the Editor. Sir, —Now that the flat racing season is on, the heads of the local clubs should wake up to the responsibilities of their duties. A notice board is wanted on prominent parts of the courses making it a penalty for any one to let newspapers and lunch papers go flying about, this would be doing something to protect racing. If not there is a calamity in the air one of these windy days when a field of horses is frightened, crash into one another and go somersaulting over the rails. The notices will be installed then. A leading jockey was brought down in England some years ago by a lady’s handkerchief blowing down the course and was a cripple ever after.— I am, etc., JAMES CHAMBERS. October 16, 1928.
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Southland Times, Issue 20618, 17 October 1928, Page 3
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134DORMANT OFFICIALS. Southland Times, Issue 20618, 17 October 1928, Page 3
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