Our correspondence column; like flume of the Times, show that
the interest in the oadroverey whether racing shall continue proceeds with unabated vigour. Speaking from the standpoint of the impartial observer and without any desire to push our own view, we note that the general drift of moderate opinion seems to be in favour of a compromise, and of allowing racing under strictly professional conditions- i.e., racing with the betting and the luxurious picnic element eliminated. What the moderate man desires—witness several of the letters in Friday's Times—is that the continuity of British racing should, for breeding purposes and for the maintenance of our superiority in horses, be maintained, but that during the war all races should resemble as far as possible simple cross-country meetings, in which, as we hare said elsewhere, the horse, and not the barman or the book- maker, is the leading feature.
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