Dull Evening's Exhibition at C.3.C, If Saturday's exhibition races at the Chinese Jockey Club's. course, under the auspices of the Shanghai Trotting Club, and with the good wishes "of the associated Chinese Jockey Club and' the Metropolitan Sporting Association, are to be taken asa criterion, then the venture doomed already. However, it is but fair to state that several of the more responsible people connected with the affair were perfectly frank in admitting that a mistake had been made and that the horses never ought to have been raced so soon after their Janding. It was understood that it {snot proposed to attempt any else for several weeks. There would not be any mistake if racing were held off for six months, for the horses are entirely out of racing condition.
The events on Saturday. evening ]were no more than processions. During a tour through the stableo an opinion was suggested and two horses were picked. By a coincidence they were Both turned out for the next race and both were back-markers. One sli ped through his field on the frst half-mile lap like a champion and shut up like a Jack-knife after that The other was totally out of hand and never attempted to race. The reaction generally on the Chinese, who never have seen trotting. before, must have been disastrous, for invariable there were two or three horses well up and the others nowhere. This was not the fault of the Inds in charge, every one of whom showed himself to be a very capable handler.
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