Taking the racing at Shanghai Saturday, the first of the season, fas an indication of what might be was perhaps, as well that a war—or whatever it was—feame, along and put. ston, to the year's programme, unless it were more correct to sny that it delayed the start of the programme and very. considerably reduced its Tength, "Such is the organisation at the. Shanghai Race Club that. there is no room for executive mistakes or shortcomings, and thing that goes wrong' necessarily fs the fault either of owners, Jockeys, oF ponies—mostly the lat= ter.
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