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AUSTRALIAN FIELDS TOO UNWIELDY. Dissatisfaction at thirty-four tWW -year -..Ids running in a race at Warwick Para last Batarday lias eaii-d tnc Breeders. Owaera and Train, rs AmMekttfea t.. make ■ move towards keeping the fields o! ■■tlMkm meeting- within bounds. At I i iiilttT in. •■ ling of Go- - y named on Monday hist is was decided to reanmat the Metropolitan Uaeing ClalM BoaehlU, Moorefield, Warwick Farm and Canterbury Park I to resort to divisions whenever the noram left in any race exceed twenty. Kvn if the etoto canoatwad confer with tin- owaera and trainers on the matter, it is improbable they wil! agree t « lark I maximum as that suggested, but noaafitly to MHM extent. and would lie satisfied with twenty-five. It is undeniable that on some suburban Hacks there .ire start ing -ixoiits at which an outside HeaitMMI ill :l field even of tjrfala minimises ■ horses . ham-e of winning, and though at. id. -iits are vcrj few oil i in- metropolitan ••horse" course., it must not he overlooked that abnormally large • f ieW« tend to their occurrence. 1 have not heard whether Hie Association content platen approaching the Australian Jockey Club as to what should l e the maximum field at Rand-wick, but in lew of the tremendous entry for some of the racea unihnnn they will also give that consideration be fact the dubs autumn meeting commences — Pilot in Sydney Referee of Match 22.
