REMARKABLE OFFER

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 64, 25 October 1928, Page 5

REMARKABLE OFFER

TO LEASE ENGLISH RACECOURSES. MAKING RACING MORE POPULAR. 1 (Received 9 a.m.) 1 LONDON,Oct. 21. After visiting Newmarket at tiro invitation of the Daily Express, Sir James Joynton Smith, proprietor of Smith’s Weekly land other Sydney enterprises made an offer to lease the Newirtarket and Epsom courses for ten years on condition he was allowed 15 days racing annually. He would) hear all the losses and pay half the profits to charity. Riming in England should he popularised, ho said, and to achieve this ho would run ft on Australian lines. If the bookmakers boycotted him he would import his own bookmakers. “I have' met competition before in Australia. I opened a course) free and operated) coaches to it free also, in order to beat the opposition. I have the ‘necessary’ to carry out my offer,” he said. The Daily Express in its editorial says: “Doubtless racing potentates will smile at the offer, but they would Mo well to ponder upon it for Sir Joynt.an Smith’s idea, is right.”— Australian Press Assn. '