RINGING-IN.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17245, 11 January 1924, Page 1

RINGING-IN.

BY SINBAD. A lover of the trotting track has told to me his woeful tale: ‘ the sport is going to the pack ” is the sad burden of his wail. “This ringing-in of which they speak, which all the punters rave about, has had me worried all the week : ’tis horrible, without a doubt. I am no wowser grim and pale ; I’d like to see the sport advance ; but if such things as these prevail, the punters ne’er will have a chance. If A is B. and B is C, and C, disguised. is really A. what earthly hope is there for me of picking winners that will pay? When trotter X or trotter Y before the race I see parade. T view them with a critic’s eye. and then on one my cash is laid : but now disaster does befall, which swiftly my finances wrecks ; for these are not their names at all. but X is Y and Y is X ! In trotting, on the host of days, there’s little chance of winning tin ; ’tis harder, in a dozen ways, now that there’s talk of ringing-in. The great exposures they have made at last to me the reason show why mokes on which my coin is laid have always proved a bit too slow. All ringing-in we’ll have to kill, however heavy be the cost : but I’m afrfiid it never will restore the shekels I have lost.