RACING PERMITS.

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 39, 21 February 1929, Page 4

RACING PERMITS.

HON. P. A. !><* la Pnrelle, in his opposition to racing clubs, holding their meetings on other than ilw-.'r own, except in genuine cases of r-r'-oncy when a course- is undergoing repalrSj will have, thy support

of iho racing public in general. Tl'icro have been too many oases m Avhicli clubs have raced away I'rom I heir own districts using courses in cell ltr(\s with larger populations simply for tho reason tluifc the profits would bo greater. There is one which deserves to he historic if it is 1 not, where a permit wa» granted to ) a certain club at the same time as an application for an extra one for Stratford was refused. That club raced for some time outside its own area—in fact it might still do so because its own course was not satisfactory. One would think that if a dub did not have a satisfactory course, it would have no need for a permit, but -apparently such was not the opinion of the authorities in those days. A s Mr Do la Porello says, clubs racing on other courses are depriving the inhabitants of their own areas of the pleasure to which they are entitled. This is one of the chief put forward by clubs in support of their applications l° r permits, and if they are going to race away from hoimP'there is no justification for many of them to continue in operation.