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FIXTURES FOR 1930: 22 RACE DAYS.

WAITING FOR THE DRAFT PROGRAMME.

[BY MORNING DEW."}

The race fixture card for 1930 to hand shows that no fewer than days have been set aside as race- days during the year. The Annual Race Meeting. as already an- onneed, is fixed for 'Saturday, ebruary, Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, February 4, 5 and 28 and Saturday, March 1. The Extra" season is as follows:-

Saturday, March 8.

March 29.

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April 5.

April 19.

Monday, April 21. Saturday, May 17.

June 7.

Monday, June 0. Saturday, September 27. Friday, October 10. Saturday, October 11. October 25. November 8, November 29. December B. December 13.

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Of these fixtures the meetings on Saturday, April 19, and on the fol- lowing Monday are grouped as one The Whitsun meeting (Easter.)

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KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY.

SERVICE TO RESUME ON WEDNESDAY..

Temporary repairs to the railway bridge at Sinchuen have been com Training

progressing pleted and the bridge at Shek Ha next week there will also be in working order in steadily and will appear these columns the course of a day or two.

It has been decided by the Canton full.

the gallopa,

authorities to to railway

resume will help readors which follow the training as closely as if passenger services between Canton

In this and Kowloon on New Year's Day. they were on the course, connection, the Jockey Club has as- sisted by reserving the judge's box for the timekeepers and the Press, step for which I, as a racing scribe, am very grateful, as it will be possible to watch the gallops without being interrupted by a continual fusilade of. questions, which happened all too frequently

now

last year.

SIGNALLING AT SEA.

BETWEEN H.M. SHIPS AND BRITISH MERCHANT

VESSELS.

The reports of signalling exercises between R.N. ships and merchant vessels, rendered by H.M. ships have been examined and the follow- ing remarks have been promulgated. The period concerned is the quarter. ending June 30.

The returns show a total of 1,899 successful exercises 45 compared with 1,50% for the previous quarter; there were five failures to establish communication.

meeting is on June 7 and 3. The double fixture on October 10 and 11 is the "Double Tenth" meeting.

Under the heading "Individual The summer interval, it will be Ships" is given the number of suc- cessful exercises reported by HM noted, extends from June 9 to Sep-ships in order of merit. Ships with tember 9, exactly three and a half less than 30 exercises have not been

included. months.

Some Advantages.

The advisability of increasing the number of race days is a debate able mutter, but from the average racegoer's standpoint, "the Jockey Club's decision has mary commend. able features about it. The long list of engagements will probably in-. duce owners to keep back in Hong Extra season. Kong during the some of the better-class performers. It has been disappointing to see, in former years, the withdrawal im- mediately after the Annual Meeting of all the best" cattle." The longer programme provides ample opportunity for ponies of all classes to pick up something in the way of prize money, but what is more in- portant from a racegoer's point of view

super-class performers can race locally without having colossal The weights imposed on them. virtual monopoly of the Aggregate Stakes by Christmas Chimes and Chesapeake Bay this reason was tiresome, to say the least. When ever these two ponies have appear- ed together, fields have been small, and the new measure will perhaps obviate a repetition of this sort of thing.

"No. of Successful Excreises.

OR

H.M. Ships and Squadron or Station. Dahlia (Med., Red Sen) Clematis (Med., Red Sea)... Enterprise (East Indies)..... Dartmouth (Trooping to

China) Cleopatra (Trooping to

China) Endeavour (Med.. Survey-

ing) Emerald (East Indies) Durban (America and West Suffolk (China) Bluebell (Chinn and passage

U.K.) Foxglove (China and passage

T.K.) Cornflower (China) Caryfort (Trooping to

Indies

China) Fth Destroyer Flot. (China) Effingham (East Indies) Delphinium (Africa) Eagle (Mediterranean) Moresby (Australia).........

74

72

2 2 88 99 9 98 683282

The following table shows the number of exercises carried out by vessels of various companies; com- panies with less than 90 exercises have not been included.

This table cannot be taken as a

With the Fanling Race Club holding steeplechaac meetings in statement of comparative signalling between the dates fixed by the efficiency as hetween various com- Jockey Club, racegoers in Hong panies, as opportunities for signal- Fong, will have a pretty full pro-ling with H.. ships are so varied. gramme with which even, the most voracious fan" ought to be satis- fid.

Annual Meeting.

The decision to extend the Annual Meeting to a five-day affair finds approval on all sides, and the public and owners are now anxious- ly waiting for news of the nature of the programme to be presented. No doubt the draft programme will be presented only after long con- aideration of the various events to be included and the days on which cach will be held. Those who are in any way connected with racing will realise that it is a difficult matter to introduce a programmo which is a departure from an age- old form but which, at the same time, will embody sufficient varin- tions to meet all requirements of the present day.

The first point, which has to be borne in mind is the difficulty of providing races for all classes of animals the griffins, the old ponies, and the subs. It is under the head- ing the old ponies that I think the greatest difficulty is encountered for such crackerjacks as Sitting Bull and Apollo come under this head as much as "D" class animals like Mountain Air and Cavalier," to say nothing of the large number of animals which come in between. How those responsible for the pro- duction of the draft programme will meet this difficulty will be interest- ing to see, and just what kind of races are put down for the first day remains to be conjectured. It scėmis almost certain that the num- ber of handicap races will be in- creased, but it is not easy to foresee where the new handicap races will be inserted,

Another point which will be watched, with interest is whether the Derby and Champions will still be held on consecutive days. Derby winners, with few exceptions, harc almost invariably started in the Champions, and a day's reet be- tween the two races seems just the thing that is wanted. Alter gruelling mile and half, a pony cao. not be expected to put in his best against the rest of an "all-winnera" field, so that the manner in which this question is met will be awaited-- "with" "Leen" ineeiust.

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• Successful Excrcises.

Company, B.L. Steam Nav. Co., Ltd.... 137 British Tanker Co., Ltd. Ellerman Lines, Ltd. P. & O. S.N. Co., Ltd.

China Nav. Co., Ltd. Ocean S.S. Co., Ltd........ Indo-China S.N. Co., Ltd..... Union Castle Mail S.5. Co.,

Bibby S.S. Co., Ltd.......... Elder, Dempster & Co., Ltd. Blue Star Line. (1990), Ltd. Anchor-Brocklebank Line,

Ltd.

Orient Steam Nay, Co., Ltd. Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Co., »

Ltd. ......

White Star Line R.M.S.R. Co., Ltd.

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