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Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 53, Issue 3826, 28 October 1936, Page 8

Weather conditions at the Cambridge races last Monday were exceptional, and the huge crowd viewed the situation philosophically. Nothing but a hard sealed surface would have prevented a quagmire forming. The rain was too solid for any lawn to withstand. A few patrons discarded shoes and stockings and moved about barefooted. Others, with surprising celerity, procured gumbopts to wade through the mud, which gradually became almost ankle-deep. Some men rolled up trousers to the knee. Large pools of water developed all over the lower portions of the lawn, and picking a course to the windows of the totalisator house was difficult; but if the occasion called for a visit to the back windows of the totalisator the punter was repaid for his hardihood in braving the mud and slush. One man had the misfortune to lose his footing, and fell headlong into the mud. Onlookers enjoyed that, anyhow !