New grandstand: Today is the Saturday before the Punchestown festival. On the front page, Valentine Lamb writes with good news. On Wednesday, a new grandstand is opened. The Managing Editor tells racegoers that the “muck of quagmire” that was once Punchestown has now been replaced by “a most magnificent stand, 300 feet long, with a 7,000 capacity, that along, with nearby facilities, cost nearly £750,000.”

Lamb points out that “it (Punchestown) took sixty years to realise that the twentieth century had arrived” referring to the 1960 construction of a “normal” steeplechase course, whereas all previous races were run over the banks. A hurdle course followed the following year.