RACING QUOTATIONS.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1244, 19 February 1914, Page 11

RACING QUOTATIONS.

Referring to the Invercargill prosecution against a cinematograph proprietor who showed on a screen the starting price figures on a totalisator, “Pilot,” in the Sydney “Referee,” has the following:—What harm the subsequent publication of quotations on races that have already been run can posibly produce it is difficult to conceive, even though the law here prevailing with regard to the publication of ante-post business justifies its inclusion in the Statutes. New Zealand is evidently a much-governed from a racing as well as other points of view; but its standard of Turf morality has no pull on that of this or, perhaps, any other State in the Commonwealth.” We have before to-day had champions of the totalisator (and “Pilot” is one) holding New Zealand up as an example to other colonies for clean sport.