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ARABS INVENTED THE STARTING GATE It was with the Tnthwjell StaUv at Lincoln just twenty years ago that the stalling gate Avas com pulsorily introduced on Englii courses Few con ¬ nected Avith the turf would care now to revert to the old flag system of starting The gate which had been an institution on Australian courses for some years before its tdoption in this country in 1000 would seem to have had its origin among the Arabs In Horsrs of the Sahara General Daunias gives the account of a race as described to him by the famous Emir AbdclKadir The horses are grouped trselher by tens but before allowing them to start nr1 to prevent faNo starts the following precaution is taken a rope is stretched across touching the animals clusfs the two ends of which are held by two men London Morning Post
