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RITA CANNON, the first woman racing correspondent, writing for the racing season fans, tells you.

How to

JUDGE A

PONY

HE season has opened, and from among the scores.

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of horses in training the supporters of the Turf will be looking for animals.to provide them with the undoubted thrill of winning races at the right time.

But here is something I would like to believe that the public. appreciated at its true value. All concerned with racing would benefit if people realised the fact that a pony is not a machine.

Just because a pony is feeling fit on his first outing and the luck of the race goes his way and he is able to win is no reason to accuse him of being a rogue or his jockey of being incompetent or even worse if he does not happen to win' the second time he appears on a racecourse.

A Rest After Winning

OWNERS, trainers, and jockeys are all anxious to win as many races as possible. Naturally, they cannot always hope or even expect to do so.

At this time of the season trainers are particularly anxious to win quickly so as to find some line of form by which to judge the other ponies in their stables and to know how good or how backward they are.

Those ponies which will be running to-day, for instance, will be expected to win more races later on in the season. They have to earn their keep; and it is impossible to maintain a pony at concert pitch throughout the season.

Remember, a pony has to be tremendously fit, and the job of getting him so entails a great deal of clever, patient treatment on the part of his trainer and lot of exacting work on the part of the pony-work that testo him right up to his capacity.

When a pony is really fit he lia and is taken through the

Difficult. Griffins

I CAN'T RACE!

I'M ONLY TWO. NEXT BIRTHDAY.

OBJECTION BY THE COLT.

Watch for the pony that looks.

is capable of doing his utmost, rather exciting experience of jockey's job to teach the young but immediately after the travelling to Hongkong, and from pony to keep on his own, to con- as though he has some idea of the still greater excitement of serve his energy and to give his what is wanted of him. Watch

for the calm, collected pony--. supreme effort of winning a race that until he arrives at the train- sole attention to the demands of either wholly or in pet fent unions he has to be let down somewhat, ing stables, life is a bit difficult the man on his back.

rights and forbia republication.

though, of course, this is a quality not always to be expected given an easy time, and then for him.

It is surprising how little a among the youngsters who are Then he has a bit put in his great number of people know seeing a racecourse for the first brought up to fitness again for his next effort.

mouth and is gradually taught about the horseflesh they like to time and having their attention. In the list of materials destined

to obey it. After that he has to bet on. Watch the ponies walk- distracted by dozens of animals. submit to carrying a lad on his ing round the ring. Look out they have never seen before, and for Germany but détaïned by our Ministry of Economic Warfare we A DOZEN things may back..

for the one that walks with n also by the noises and sights of“ happen during that From then onwards he is built big, smooth stride and puts his the grandstand and enclosures. have proof of ВИСССИВ which

second attempt. Generally up by walking and trotting, and hind feet down in the hoofmarks Study the breeding of a pony betters expectation. It has been speaking, the ponies with which gradually brought on until he of his forefeet. That's usually and, particularly, the breeding of announced that more than both trainers and backers have can be galloped without any, dan- a pony that can gallop.

the dams. Then throughout the million ton have already been inter- the most difficulty are the ger of injury.

Watch them going down to the season, watch how ponies be- cepted by the Allied contraband griffins.

But even after a few months post. Look for the pony that have. control. Seizures of the very com- These young ponies are grow of that the average youngster gallops low and smooth, parti.u-. If you take an interest in rac-- modities essential to tho matning-during their two-year-old-does-not thoroughly realise what larly when the going-la hard, as ing why not study it from points

season; most of them do not is wanted of him. If he is being it is at present." know their work properly, and galloped with another pony, or yet the public expect them to more than one, his natural in-. run with the steadiness and con- clination is to edge over towards thesistency of old performers just the other animal and keep along.

bred and show a turn of speed. because they happen to be well side him,

The up.

tenance of armaments are still piling

fundamental weakness of Hitlerism's policy of aggression is that in all materials which modern warfare requires the territory of the Reich, with all that it has annexed, is singularly poor. The list of cap- tures shows at once the extent of the dopendence of German military offort on supplies which she can not obtain from contiguous coun- tries and the power of the blockade to stop supplies from overseas.

In two months 87,540 tons of petroleum and 81,500 ton of Iron ore were captured, tons of thou- sands of tons of manganese and aluminium ores, great quantities of copper, lead and zinc, and valuable amounts of rarer metale necessary in munitions. Materials for explosives and war stores bulk large in the list. The blockade has been specially effective againat armament Imports, and its effect is far greater than the figures exhibit. What is seized wo Can compute. What Germany had contracted for but found no ship- ping to bring must be a far larger amount,

There is no source from which

Watch These Points

MANY

of view other than the form- book? Some of the greatest. racehorses are completely mis-- judged by the form-book.

RACING is a great sport,

a good pony standing fourteen hands looks about twelve when

and one of its chief A few ponies of strong and he is galloping. He goes down objects is to improve steadily Let me give you a picture of dominating character may object and stretches himself. He does the breed of the racehorse. Don't racing from these youngsters' to allowing another animal to not bound along like a deer wast- expect ponies to be banged and point of view.

gallop alongside them, but the ing a lot of his time in the air leathered and knocked about just From the monsent a youngster majority seek company.

and slapping the ground hard to provide a winner for people- It is the trainer's and the with his hoofs.

who back. leaves the green fields of Austra-

66 BIG SHIP-EASY TARGET,

THEY SAY

Vice-Admiral J. E. T Harper, C.B., M.V.O.,

who compiled the official record of the Battle of Jutland. Ho comments in this articlo on an American admiral's condamnation of the 80,000-ton warship and gives his vlows on some of the points that govern Britain's naval policy.

WHAT should be the size of a battleship? It is good these deficiencies. Russis, reported that the United States has recently turned its

the Fuchror's ministors can maiço

If she chooses, if she will be paid back on the suggestion to build leviathans of 70,000 to and if the transport can be croat-80,000 tona in favour of something less cumbersome.

ed, may supply

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Vice - Admiral Harper, who entered the Navy in 1888 was for three years commander of the Royal yacht Victoria and Albert.

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But In This Case It Is:

A Target That Can

Hit Back!

to.

called a "ship of the Une, a terins which has now giyen "place "capital" ship.........

Guarding Empiro's Food

IT will be seen, therefore, that the term "capital ship" is not necessarily synonymous with battleship. At the moment it is; but if battleships, as- we know them, were abolished, tho- next most powerful unit would auto-- matically become the capital ship, or- ship of the line,

A nation such as ours, dependent: for its very existence on the sea.. must maintain a navy capable of do“. fending tho seas, Geographically eltuated as we are, with parts of tho Empire joined not by land, but by sen highways; with millions who live in the heart of the Empire-Britain........... dependent on imported food to save- thèm from starvation, our raval needs. are for and away above those of ai self-supporting continental nation. When dimensions of this nature aro

But must this navy of ours contain. battleships? Are those powerful, but. and perhaps suficient manganese. strain on munition factories is spoken of it is not surprising that

expensive, inviathans really neces→ But for the rest, her cupboard is raised to a higher tension the im- many ask if battleships are really necessary. First of all, we must are lost. Buch In baro. The Reich is isolated from porta

understand what is meant by the almed at are heavy guns, with assary? Should we put so many eggs

long a range as possible; massive into one basket? the countries which in the first prospect of Hitlerism in its firat word "battleship."

There is only one answer, Yes. ldo and deck armour to protect the The battleship is the king-pin of" half of the year supplied her with

A navy must consist of many cata-vitals from enemy guns and from the defence system of our Empire; or, war winter, With the loss of

the air; under-water half her imports. We know that Imports Germany has also lost gorics of ships, ranging in size up-bombs from

wards from the armed constal motor protection to withaland attack from A fleet of battleships forms a

In other

ords, "Britain's full-back mothing was being imported which markote. Nearly half her export hoat and mine-sweeping trawler; torpedo or mine; and as high, a A could possibly be produced Intrado was done with Britain and submarines; escort vessels; torpedo speed as can then be produced, rampart of scapower, and acts as a Germany and Austria and Czocho France and noutrals OVOIULAK. boat destroyers; cruisers, small and A ship, in short, which is strong protector of the weaker units; it la slovakia. These overseas importa The Reich is now unable to export large; and aircraft carriors, to men- enough to take her place in the line the last and anal word our sure

tlon only a few. "

of battle" when faced by the most ohfeld. If we were to abolish battle- wore absoluto pocosalties of the i through noutral countries or in

ships.the_femaining units of our fleet: A battleship is the strongest unit powerful enemy feet in existence, armament · programme. As tho" neutral shipping.

of the Beet to-day. The main points In Nelson's day such a ship was

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