SPORTING POLITICS.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume I, Issue 3, 16 August 1890, Page 6

SPORTING POLITICS.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —I have perused your first number of The Sporting Review, and I like the tenor of the basis to be structured your new venture upon, and if you honestly and honourably strive your utmost, travelling in the grooves you have shadowed forth, I feel assured there is room for valid success —your assurance that nothing scurrilous will be permitted to bespatter your columns will be appreciated much by the multitude, and if you set out to impartially review and expose all zig-zag three-cornered arrangements that goes under the name of Sporting, and really do it, your paper will be a blessing in the midst of the land, and hailed as a long-felt want. lam glad, too, that you recognise properly conducted Trotting Associations, as I consider the breeding and development of superior trotting harness horses will prove an important boon to the community at large. I heartily congratulate you upon being enabled to prevail upon “ Old Turfite ” to resume his sporting correspondence in The Sporting Review, as he is a reliable and experienced authority of no mean merit in racing and breeding of thoroughbreds, and he, as your sporting correspondent, in my opinion, will greatly aid the circulation of your paper, as he thoroughly knows what he is about, and is well acquainted with the shady doings of the past among the racing fraternity. The very knowledge of his being in active work again will make racing scandals less frequent in many ways. Ido not agree with all he says against the use of the totalizator, |he being an old racing man does not like the innovation of its introduction into racing circles —very few old racing men do, but as he only dates his active racing commencement from 1850, I can date my experience some years before that, therefore, I deem it he will take no offence at my disagreeing with him on that point, and on some future occasion, if you will allow me, I will make use of your columns and try to show the advantage of the totalizator to the general public attending-the Jracecourse, ’and lessening the evil of shady bookmakers’ class. An Outsider.