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EXPERIMENTING WITH STARTING FLAG. An interesting experiment was made Friday. Mav 20. al Maisons-I.alhtto. and probablv the aareeea which attended it may bring back the old method 1 ..f starting with the tl.ig. On that occasion the gat.-was only used as a means of bringing the horses no level to a certain position. When this had been | accomplished bT the assistant starter, the signal was s;iven bv the starter, who stood aaaW paces in ■ advance with hi- flag. It is aaaaaaaa, with reason that the oaMal who is iu rroai of his borers is a i better Jadge of their being on level terms than when perched iu a stand and having to fiddle with either i a button or a dismantled squirt. — London Sportsman, i
