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The racing season began on Saturday. And it started appropriately with the largest Cash Sweep ever seen in Ilongkong-over $240,000 in first prize and nearly $3,000 for each pony-holder who did not get a place-getter.
This week jockeys and owners, trainers and race-goers, big gam- blers and the amal who puta her modest ten cunts, and especially to- dlay the ladies-oh, yes, there's also the ponies are news again.
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'Phone 26615 March 1, 1939
Finale in Spain
Recognition of Nationalist Spain by Great Britain and France is a far greater blow to the Loyalists than the loss of Barcelona. As General Franco exultantly proclaimed in Burgos yesterday: "What Britain did to-day the rest of the world will do to-morrow.
diminutive ponies around a course tug at the hearts of all but the dull- eat of us.
"They're Ot" means something
NOW,
But much has been done since the beginning of the year before the Starter at the Valley was able to signal his first "away" on Satur- elity"
Remember,
much ንቲ Hongkong prides itself on its amateurism, ruc- ing here is as much an industry in
is in England or in Australla.
It gives work to all sorts and con- ditions of men; from the man who breed ponies in Australia and North Chinn to the trainers in Hongkong. from motar-car drivers to rickshaw- men, from clerks to soldiers.
This moming. jockeys and owners, big gamblers and punters - and horses are nows again.
Hongkong is from London--to see the famed Melbourne Cup, run or the first Tuesday of November.
Take the Derby ut Home The Derby is part of British history, it is also VITY good for British busi- ness. At a most modest estimate, a million pounds is spent before the Derby horses to careering round the Epsom course at their 33 miles an hour before the most representative assembly ever brought together in these islands.
Another £500,000-at lcast--is buying yearlings from out the dividend of the most com- which every optimistic owner hopes plicated race. Automatically, as you to produce a Derby winner. buy your fletcets, It Bashes the total sales. An
pari-mutuel to automatically work spent on
more are
And quite apart from the ordin barometer automalle shows you which horse is favourite, ary meetings, millions which is second favourite, which one spent on the classles. hasn't had much support.
sections
not
in
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Not everything about rac- ia SLVCR Agures. Now for some figures. Take the ing is reckoned
an The stable lads current fight for Cash Sweeps. It is probably The only thing that can be
under-estimation to say that, in the trade union conditions has shown said in favour in Mr. Chamber- To prepare for the thousands of
five days of racing during the An- pretty clearly that sumie people who have gone 10 Happy
ពបវរវ៉ Meeling, $1,500,000
In at least of this industry are lain's act is that it promises to Valley every day since Saturday, puper renders.
A staff of reporters vested in these alone. Millions of overburdened with riches make the long-delayed end of employees of the Jockey Club and is necessary at the race-course. The dollars also go on the pari-mutuel. Yet, 2,000 would-be Jockeys still
of the Tramway Company, to name results and comment must be phon- this struggle certain and much two of those chiefly affected, have ed as the race is being run, as the
More figures? Well, let's look at write to one Epsom trainer every less remote. What capacity for had to in all out for the past few ponits flach past the winning post. Hata cars we needed to curry pas- the triumphs of a Donoghue or
the tramway company and buses. year, cach dreaming of emulating A battery of inotype machines Was resistance may still reside in weeks.
to deal with the edited copy turn sengers to and from the Valley, and Richards. Madrid and Valencia is not Printers had to work overlime to 10
the fact that And that despite a typewritten story into mital slugs, at the end of each meeting you see Tindeed to be regarded as negli. Print the thousands of programinic Frames of type-cach frame a com- long string of each waiting for stable apprentices have to be
that are useless after å day's racing,
be locked and their fonds.....
dentured..for Ave. years and even gible; it is, however, hopeless, unless they are kept as souvenira plete pages
taken to the basement where the of an extra-special win.
In Hongkong, nearly all the people then stand only one chance in ten with the hand of every man
printing presses await them.
public and perhaps patronising the Mimbers' Stand of riding In
one chance in twenty of riding n holding down the balance Have you thought of the amount
On Derby Day, the "Telegraph" travel by car.
jew winners. of work thul is necessary to prepare strongly in favour of the Insur those race-books: Of the maze of was selling the results of the Derby Either way, the job of controlling
Stanley Woutton estimates. In- dain that must be compiled! Just on the streets of Hongkong seven truffle gives many a trofile officer a
after the winning pony
didentally, that it costs gents.
nearly ratuitous headache, passed the post.
£1,000 to make a jockey; and the turn over the pages and are for your minutes self.
But, os far as the buses and trams jockey, when made, often comes Nobody connected with racing can
very
well out of the business with less than
cost afford to be idle. There is a cer- are concerned. It koks tin mechanised routing, not only for in the traffle returns at the end of the of making him in his
the week. It is the kind of news pocket.
costs One more figure? It keepers In the city, for the cinema Valley. The wonder is that this houses and for cabarets and hotels, about $50 a week to keep in irain- mechanisation, far from dulling the for people, Anished with the racing, ing one of the ponics which will be glamour of racing, has enhanced it.
like to ro on spending money when ving the crowd at the Valley to- day the thrill of its Bfe-when the One day Hongkong will have the they return from the course.
cry goes up again; "They're off!"
-To-day's Thought- HERE were we fallen in a great question of the law, whether the grey mare may be the better horse or not,
Huw is ul that information
the newspapers, but for everyone that means business, too, for shop- CREAM or POWDER
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connected with the events at the
Defeat, in the case of Loyalist Spain, is great also, and in this hour of their fallen fortunes it is impossible not to respect the the courage and tenacity or Loyalist armies who have held out so long against fearful odds, overwhelmingly superior equip ment and the failure of demo-telephones are installed. The Presa several years the Hongokng Jockey Rabing in Hongkong is on a very box must have communications with Club has toyed with the idea of in small scale compared with racing in offices in the city, so that the stories
other parts of the world. Take the of success and defeat can be flashed in the totalisator-the mechani- Australia, for instance. It is
ent marvel invented in Australia.
#reatest racing country in the world, to the waiting presses. Have you ever thought of the extra organisa- This remarkable robot is People travel from one end of the tion that is necessary in order to romance in itself. It takes less than country 10 the other and that's Australian bring race results quickly to news twenty seconds on A mechanical some distance, for the
coastline is very much further than
cracy. The men who fought for Spain have incontestably shown the mettle of their Spanish pasture. Though all else be lost to them, they have kept their
honour.
There is double-tragedy in the haste with which Britain and France have extended recogni- | tion to Franco in the fact that insistence was not made that a prerequisite should be an assur- ance from the Insurgents that there would be no vlctimisation for persecution. Incidentally, the Loyalist Government announced
THE SHINING HOUR shortly after the fall of Bares-
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lona that it was prepared to negotiate for pence If Franco would offer this guarantee. It was refused,
There is a reminder in the threat of terrorism against anti- Insurgent "criminals" that the end of the Civil War will not necessarily end the terrific loss. of life hostilities has brought to Spain, just as there is a remin- der in the recent declaration that Italian troops would not be withdrawn until peace came, that security and national indepen- dence are still far away, and that European tension will not and with the collapse of Loyallst resistance.
Peace in Spain will not Im- mediately resolve the doubts and fears which have been perplex- Ing. the capitals of Europe since. the Civil War began two and a
Shali
At every big Race mteling special ultimate
in icebanisation. For
GRIN AND BEAR IT
By Lichty
"ye'll appeal the verdict. Juist discovered our client han $500
sor didn't know abouidenATKE
-SIR THOMAB MORE.
Scarlet Pimpernel 'Lost Everything'
Somewhere in Sussex.
just
THE Searlet Pimpernel of the Spanish war, Captain. Edwin Christopher Lance, D.S.O., who for the last eigh- teen months had lived in a prison under the daily threat of the execution squad, arrived secretly in England
ecently.
mer monastery
Captain Lance was accused by were 2,000 of us imprisoned in a for- near Figuras, El the Spanish Republicans of hav-Collel. Before that there had been ing smuggled out of the country only 300. more than 100 men and women) "Seven others were packed with me of noble birth, wealth, or in my tiny cell. Before that I was political hostility.
in the Uruguay, the prison ship in
was regarded as the most dan- Barcelona port. Once or twice, dur gerous inan in the country," he said in air rafts, we were taken for a "t had two crime theets. No. 1 ne- crtalce round the Mediterranean.
"I was arrested three times, on cused me of being a spy, No. 2 of
each occasion for explounge, the last being an accomplice.
"At the moment I am the most mo in Madrid in 1837. I owe my ignorant man in Europe. I do nai escupe entirely to Mr. Stevenson, who know what has been Lappening for saw Dr. Negrin, the Prime Minister, the last year and a half. When I on severní occashhis to plead for me." crossed the French border with the British Minister in Barcelona, Mr. Ralph Stevenson, I had to sak him; who was 1ng of England now, "I have lost everything I had ex- cept my gold signet-ring. My father gave it to me on my twenty-firat A rolling enfeteria to give factory 15, birthday, and I have higten it in workers on speedy production lines many places, including ny mouth mid-morning and afternoon EUROKE, and between my toes,
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