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PREVENTS KICKING AT THE START. . "Mr. S. Miller, the Australian racing expert, who has just arrived homo from his trip to England, seems to have a high opinion of English horses or rather the best of them but he pre-fers our way of managing racing," says the Australasian. "He gives oue good reason wh,v the starting machine is not the success In England that It Is with us. The horses are placed too far apart. In England the starters seem to think the horses will kick when bunched up at a start as they are with us. This is just what they will not do. It Js wheji they liavoa little room that tlicy let go. And they stand better at the barrier when closely packed as with ps. I would like to hear of an Australian starter like Mr. Tom AValson trying his hand at starting in England- with the single-strand machine they-have -at ftnndwick. I think ho would soon show that the starting gate Is a good thing."
