Whatever doubts there may be in some people's minds as to the desirability or possibility of adding to the number of race days here, and as to whether a Chinese-managed race club could be made suetes, no one who attended the first race meeting of the newly-formed Chinese Jockey Club at the Yangtzepoo course, on Sunday, could deny that there was every evidence of it being a popular move and there was not a hitch anywhere in the arrangements. The club were very fortunate in'that the weather changed s0 quickly and they were blessed with a glorious day, for getting to the course in wet weath= er, standing about in the rain and then the dreary ride home through it would be too much for most peo 'A full hour before the races there were probably 8,000 people present, practically all Chinese, and more came all through the afternoon, une til there must have been quite 6,000 there, if not more. Very few for= eigners were there at the start, but several hundred came down fu, including a Steward and offi and many of the best known mem bers of the Shanghai Race Club, The races in detail follow:—
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