The Archive · 1936

Moving Starts

To the Editor of the font-Cuna, Daaty News"

Swy—Last Saturday, when Night Express tried to get & moving start, Mev Starter deputed It" "no start Evidently, be gained experience when he released the bervier with Brad. well on the move and a others standing. All first end second have been reversed. start and erratic course the winner took down the straight gave nothing chance of coming outside or on the rails, but suppose the old hack-poyed phrase, "they are only amateurs," covered all this and thus styed a' protest.

Pardon the suggestion, but the sooner this is all forgotten the better for the Sport of Kings. I have come to the conclusion that the majority of those connected with ponies seem fo understand the difference between "Go" and "Whoa," just the same as professionals. Racing control in Shanghai must move with the times and not remain, as at present, the Sport of "Kinks."

Shanghai, Oct, 5.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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