To the Editor of the "Nomru-Cuuna Dany News"
Si—It is a great pleasure to learn that the Chinese Jockey Club of China will be starting racing again ft: before, The first meeting of the autumn season will start on Sunday next the 27th instant. They are! holding "eight races, consisting handicaps for griffins of 1085, a sell-Jing race for all ponies and a i% mile race for a. cup presented by Mayor Wu Teh-chen, beside the stake money for the winner and placed. ponies, In all" the other races, apart {rom the stakes, beautiful cups will be presented "tothe winning Jockeys. 'These. cups have been very" inoly donated by prominent Chinese. 'The CIE. Course is now once more in beautiful" condition, having' been cleared of all the ugly electric light standards, all the ralls have been repaired and. painted, the training ash track has been thoroughly cleared and cleaned and new fine ashes laid fon, the grass course is a treat to ook at, and fast times should be recorded; improvements have been. made everywhere within the course, fine trees and plants planted about the paddocks, the members have an' entrance to the club apart from the: public gate, all the stalls are being Fenovated and the stalls which stable the ponies arriving from Shanghai and Kiangwan have been put in fine shape and look very attractive, a decided improvement on what they had last year. The mounting paddock will be situated where everyone can have a full and clear view of the ponies before they go out for their race, this is a very decided improvement because now the public can view the ponies and get a fair chance to study their condition. This was impossible hitherto, and now when the public see that everything Is being done to give them a fair deal before buying their tickets in the] ari-mutuals, it will assurededly soon show the desired effect, The club oMclals and its secreta: y must certainly be congratulated in their fine effort, as now the club is really a wonderful improvement in every way to what it was before. For the benefit of the public, 1 would say that the old and wretched ash road which started just beyond Fuh Tan University and led to the C.C."Course has now been reconstructed entirely and a very ne and smooth road now runs three-quarters of the distance to. the Course and motor cars can travel safely without the dust so unavoidable with ash roads, The races on Sunday next should be well worth a visit to preciate the improvements made at the course, Shanghai, Oct. 22.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.