RACING REINSTATED.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1493, 5 December 1918, Page 11

RACING REINSTATED.

It was announced by cable from Melbourne that restrictions imposed in Victoria in connection with racing had been removed. This, no doubt, refers to war-time curtailments ordered by the Defence Department. A cable from England a few days earlier announced that the embargo lifted. We may be sure that the reon winter racing there had been sumption of racing will be welcomed wherever it had been deemed advisable or where it was absolutely necessary to limit or stop it while the war was on. Racing is recognised as a world-wide and healthy amusement by a very large section of the community, and we shall soon hear that preparations are to be made in France and in other countries for a renewal where it suffered a big setback. In France many of the studs were removed from the danger zone during the inroads made by the enemy upon French territory, though the breeding of thoroughbreds could not have received anything like the same attention in that part of the world as in pre-war times. Many fine studs were dispersed in England, but it can be taken for granted that breeding horses for utility purposes to make good the wastage that has been enormous in the trial of the war will be one. of the immediate concerns of all nations where their great value has been proved.