""We'll show an event," meaning the race-meeting as a whole, "and the human-interest stories around it.""
"Publicity material describes celebrities being given a small amount of money and being challenged to get to that month's main international race-meeting by whatever means they can."
"An uncle, George Pollexfen,17 afterwards astrologer and mystic, and my dear friend, came but seldom from Ballina, once to a race-meeting with two postilions dressed in green; and there was that younger uncle18 who had sent me for the rail-way-pass."