An Increase in Both Stables and Ponies Entered 'The entries for the Spring' Meeting of the Shanghai Race Club closed on Wednesday night and] when tabulated show a very encouraging increase both in. the number of stables and ponies. This fact undoubtedly is very largely due to the new policy with regard to subscription-griffins, the encouragement of this dasi Jand the more careful selection of ponies before the draw, having resulted in the registration of many new ownerships, whilst the improved type of pony and the fact that the fare more races for the class hi meant that more of them have been kept in training for track work, instead of passing vid the auction: yard into Chinese livery stables or the boiling-house of—the kennels of the Shanghai Hounds, For the coming meeting there an entry of 195 ponies, representing '97 stables, which compares with 152 ponies and 71 stables last. spring. It is not possible to make a comparison by races, owing to the many alterations which have been made in the programme in order to fit in the subscription griffin. races, Dbut the entries by races for the meeting next month follow:—
Monday, May 4
Handicap Tuesday, May 5
2 gai Sy 2 Grand Stand Stakes a Starry Stok a Saturday, May 9
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