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winning post on courses where there are two judges^ 

 boxes or more. The going on these courses is generally 

 good, despite the climate. English trainers cry 

 out at a spell of dry weather and lament that they 

 cannot gallop their horses. How is it Colonial 

 trainers can get their horses fit when the ground, 

 eight or nine months out of the twelve, is much 

 harder than in England, no matter how dry the 

 summer ? Is it because the Colonial horses are 

 sounder on their legs, and have better constitutions 

 than English horses, or is it the system of training ? 

 There must be some reason for it. Very few Colonial 

 horses are raced in plates, a still less number in 

 shoes, and yet the ground is often hard. One 

 reason horses can be trained so well in such a 

 climate is the care and attention bestowed on the 

 race tracks. Australian trainers grumble at the tracks 

 in their own country. I am afraid they would grumble 

 still more at many of the English tracks. 



Mr. T. S. Clibborn, the Secretary of the 

 Australian Jockey Club, has had much to do 

 with making Randwick such a perfect course. He 

 is an energetic reliable secretary, but the A. J. C. are 

 more conservative in their notions than the Y. E. C. 

 This is not Mr. Clibborn's fault, and I think if he 

 had a freer hand given him he would do even more 

 for Randwick than he has. 



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