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NO FREE BADGES FOR OWNERS. Owners of race horses in other parts of the world do not enjoy the privileges accorded them in this country, and the following from a Melbourne paper makes interesting reading in view of conditions here: "Some time ago a number of race horse owners petitioned the Victoria Racing Club and the Victoria Amateur Turf Club authorities with a request for complimentary admission tickets to the race courses controlled by these bodies on occasions when horses were entered by them for the days program. A reply was received to the effect that, while it was recognized that there was some justice in the claim, the issue of tickets could not be agreed to as sue-xested, but a request for a refund on the day following the meeting would receive consideration. Many of the owners who sisned the petition objected to this method of overcoming the difficulty, and 011 a further application iKing made it was announce! that the decision with regard to the refund w uld be adhered to. This matter as well as other disabilities which owners allege they are under will be considered at a meeting to lie called at the conclusion of the Victoria Racing Clubs spring carnival."
