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AUSTRALIA RECOGNIZES VALUE OF RACING. In enterprising Australia there is tin failure to recognize the value of racing and Hie efficiency of sporting news as a factor in immigration. The high commissioner in London is kept informed by cable of the results of all important sporting fixtures and immediately communicates them to the London press, with the KSSlt that one reads almost daily such n nvs Mtinonneenients as this in the leading English journals: "We learn through the high commissioner for Australia that Sasanof. the Melbourne Cup winner. ran second t" Desert Cold in tic Auckland Islington Plate, which was run in record time. The New Zealand Summer Cup was won by King Lupin." Not only is racing in Australia not suspended during the war. but the government takes especial esn that during the progress of the war those who have gone across the seas shall be kept informed of the progress of the racing at home. In pursuance of that policy The Anzac Rulletin is published for circulation in Europe, and these are a few of the matters that the compilers of the latest isiie to reach Canada evidently considers Australian soldiers wil be interested in: "Linacre is at the head of the winning sires for the first eaarter of the racing season. "Five of the acceptors for the Melbourne Cup were trained by 0. Wheeler. "As an indication of the heavy going at Flo:n-ington on Derby Day. times were much slower than usual. The Derby was run in 2:41%, or ." .. seconds slower than Patrobas won the same race last year, and the Maribyrnong Plate in 1:06%, the slowest time for the race in thirty-nine years. "On account of the action of tie- y. T. C. Committee in refusing to allow the admission of ladies to the official enclosure. Mrs. O. C. Flemish, the owner of Cagou, withdrew her horse from further engagements, including the Queensland Cup.
