... Racing Notions By CARBINE At Goodwood STEWARDS' Cup Day at Goodwood was a complete success from every standpoint, though I suppose the brothers Joel, who each had some supposed good things beaten during the afternoon, were not altogether satisfied with the results. Priory Park has acquired so tall a reputation that the majority of people took a short price about him for the big handicap, ...

... Racing Notions By CARBINE Restarting Question I HEAR of a movement to form a new association of owners to deal with several matters of interest to the supporters of racing. Among the subjects on which feeling is running very high just now is the question of the standing start. Until this season starters were allowed a certain amount of latitude in permitting horses to walk up to the gate, ...

... COAifjg^vS in ii Paris- Also Ran A YEAR ago our Spring Fashions Number might have dealt with the progress promised in the adornment of woman-- lovely woman. But, to-day, all this is changed. The ladies have had to take a back seat and Paris lags behind Oxford as an arbiter of Fashion. Signs of the Times Lest you should think I exaggerate, let _j me say that in my morning paper I find a ...

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... Racing Notions By CARBINE Bravo, Fairway 1 EVERYTHING was rose-coloured for the prodigious crowd on the Town Moor on St. Leger Day. We revelled in autumnal weather of the finest order and the favourite won the big race! Besides, there were several other well-backed winners, so for once in a way the bookmakers and not the backers wore glum faces at the end of the afternoon. Although I had ...

... Near Ivangorod BY THE BYSTANDER IN POLAND i WHILE a thousand guns are thun dering near Warsaw, I write this in peace ful Novo-Alexandriya, near Ivangorod Fortress. I came here not to avoid Warsaw's thundering guns, but its thunder ing lies. Warsaw is full of citizens who buttonhole you with Have you heard the latest? and after this invariably comes the alarmist whopper that Hindenburg has ...

... EMRNPER COMMENTS Sudden Sunshine SPRING came suddenly, says an observer of modern phenomena; and so, I suppose, we may try to persuade ourselves that Winter will not last until July, as is usually the case. Certainly the observer aforesaid has had every reason for his optimism-- whatever the weather may be at the moment! Singing in the Spring Those jolly old songs that we used to sing before ...

... By CARBINE Newbury Cup WHEN you are marking down your likely horses for the Cesarewitch you will have to take into consideration the fact that the Newbury Autumn Cup is to be run on Saturday. This race fre quently has a bearing on the big Newmarket handicap. Last season, for example, Eagle's Pride ran well enough at Newbury to encourage his owner and trainer to be lieve that he would do ...

... RACING NOTIONS By CARBINE A Real Grievance I AM bound to say I sympathise greatly with the bookmakers in their grievance on the subject of the taxation of bad debts. It is most inequitable that they should be called on to pay the betting tax on money which they cannot collect. The law has it that you cannot legally enforce the payment of gambling transactions, so the bookie is hit in two ...

... RACING NOTIONS By CARBINE Popular Priory Park I DO not remember ever to have been more confident regarding the issue of an important handicap than I was over Priory Park in the Royal Hunt Cup. I am glad to know that the sanguine selection of this horse made in these Notes last week turned out so happily. There was not a moment in the Hunt Cup when the supporters of Priory Park had any real ...

... Racing Notions By CARBINE Whv this Fuss I NOTICE a tendency in some of the papers severely to criticise the members of the Racecourse Betting Control Board because they have not yet come to any definite decisions. What is all the fuss about? The Board has an exceedingly difficult job, and I am all for giving its members plenty of time to get a grasp of the problems which confront them. If they ...

... RACING NOTIONS By CARBINE Autumn Puzzles RACING people are now getting right down to the puzzles of the autumn handicaps. Interest has been stimulated by the appearance of the first lists of London Betting on the Cesarewitch and Cambridgeshire. The odds do not strike me as being particularly tempting. For example, we find Lightning Artist at 8 to I for the Cesarewitch, yet it is probable ...