THE CHINA MAIL.
FRIDAY, MARCH 17, 1961.
CLIVE GRAHAM GIVES A WORLD-WIDE SURVEY OF RACING
AFTER TRAVELLING MORE THAN 31,000 MILES
Busiest and most profitable centre must certainly be Hongkong
My 8 x 60 binoculars must have watched more horses racing and training in more different places, and collected more badges over the past three months, than any other pair in the world.
They have scanned, among thousands of others, the Indian-breds at Bombay and Calcutta, the so-called "ponies" at Hongkong, the mighty Australian champion, Tulloch, whose training quarters are at Randwick-only 10 minutes' drive from the heart of Sydney-and the Butozolidin-boosted platers in Mexico.
I left these binoculars behin
for the Moscow trip, to take
their baby brother, the Japanese
7 x 23 (and serve the fe
brute right too!)
Bolli confrm that horse racing everywhere is having to fight hard to retain Its traditional place, not only as sport birt as an entertain- ment.
I made it my business to talk to anyone who had any useful knowledge.
་་་
I was amused by the effrom- tery of a Bombay tipster. sprelaise," he said, "in pre
eting fluke winners."
Scathing
I formed a great admiralion for the kindly Sultan of Johore, who keeps his horses in kingly stute and style at the stable in his beautiful Serene Palace, overlooking Singapore Causeway, and treats them as kindly
if US
they were hi: ohildren.
And now he controls one of more than half the flowers are
the most prosperous and scenic- ally beautiful
track face businesses on America, home of the Florida Derby in April, preceding by two weeks the historie "Kentucky Derby at Louisville, and Ftvalling Rin value and Interest.
Cowboys
Touring
this three-storey
building. I was struck by the I was impressed by the ruth-number of open troughs and less offelenty of the Australians, comerete containers set near the and their way of Impounding entrances to the connecting Bookmakers' ledgers for serutiny halls, restaurant rooms, and whenover they suspect any "monkey business.
snack bara.
Those are for our floral dis-
I sat in conclave with leading plays," explained the 71-year- vels and analysts all round | old Scot. "for we plant annually the world to discuss the pro- something like £20,000 worth blem of doping and its detec-or lowers alone." tion. I was horrified to hear their seathing. derogatory cominents about our methods in Britalo.
No American racetrack Ignores decorational appeal.
plastic.
"What English racecourses, wonder, would go to such lengthy to ratisfy their tomers?" he said,
CASH
Plans To start racing in Honolulu have not yet been finished, although on the main island of Hawaii is one of the biggest cattle ranches (the Parker Ranch) in the world.
There, incidentally, werk the only sea-going herd their cattle out by night cowboys, who into the open ocean, securing the girths around their middles as a preliminary to their being hoisted aboard " The anehnrett cattle boats.
Busiest
Local shopkeepers and hotel managers oppose the licensing of a racetrack on the grounds that too much of the good Her-tourist spending money will be diverted away from its present lucrative channels.
Complimenung Jim blavatix. ex-songwriter, ex bookie, on the flower beds which he is conjured out of the local desert at the Turt Paradise
I took thorough look too at amenities. The lead is held by the Americans, for in iho U.S. horse-race promotion must be regarded as an impor-racetrack on the outskirts of visited the busiest and most tant business enterprise.
Easy
Jimmy Donn, who left his native Clydeside and the Bitte village of Crossford back in 1909, to seck his living In America, left no doubt on that
point.
He was showing me round Gulfstream Park, his multi- million dollar racing enterprise situated within easy reach of North Miami Beach.
During the past few months he has spent nearly £400,000 on building new super-luxurious accommodation there for his club stand visitors.
The escalators, the elevators, the wall-to-wall carpeting, the kitchens would be more
in keeping with one's idea of a modern hotel. The paddock scenery has been improved by the planting of two dozen fully grown pulm trees.
Flowers
But old Jimmy seemed more delighted by the architects' plans for rhsuring easy access for his patrons from their Juncheon tables and boxes to the pari-mutuel windows-for there seven cents in every dollar bet go to the colfers of the executive.
Jimmy look over Gulfstream Park in part payment of a debi contracted with his landscape gordoning business, knowing as ተነሱ confessed, less than nothing about horse racing."
Of all the racing centres I
{Phoenix, Arizona,
was profitable must certainly be surprised when he confided that Hongkang.
Four D. Jones IT'S NO USE.
BY MADDOCKS
FERDINAND
NANCY
I ASKED
YOU A QUESTION
I HAVE ONE OF MY HEADACHES COMING ON,
مفیلم بر می دار یاری
BUSHMILLER-
Admission fees there were trebled recently in the hope of reducing the crowds, but all to no avail, for the stands are still being nacked with an cager race-watching public.
Now the executive finds itself committed, to building sky- scrapers for stands in the con- gested area known Happy Valley. This place must surely figure, along with Turf Paradise, as the most felicitous name among the racetracks I visited.
In Singapore, where the race- course stables have air-condi- tioned boxes for the horses, en old crone told my fortune through the medium of a little, enged red sparrow.
Luck
According to this bird I was going to have a busy, interest- fing, and profitable time." Some- one must have slipped some dope into his bird seed, though, for that phrase about the glorious uncertainty of the Turt
country's racing alone. certainly does not apply to this
The hard-luck stories 1550- elated with the sport have pro- noted a world-wide spirit of fellow feeling, which has to be experienced to be fully understood.
Even In Russia, where the was made surprising remark
official in by an important the Foreign Ministry: "We think it desirable, too, to cling to the cld traditions
-- and
racing has old traditions in this country which are worth pre- serving."
Our traditions in Britain arc even older. They don't need preserving so much as polishing.
(London Express Service).
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