Racing News, 1926-1991

In 1926, in February, the first issue of "Wiadomości Wyścigowe" was published in Warsaw, which was the official body for horse racing published by the Society for the Encouragement of Horse Breeding in Poland, pursuant to the provisions of the "Racing Rules" established by the Minister of Agriculture as a result of the Act about horse racing. "Wiadomości Wyścigowe" announced all regulations regarding horse races and the totalizator, internal announcements of racing societies and reports from subsequent racing days, information on licenses issued to trainers, jockeys and stable staff, penalties imposed on people who committed offenses, stable statistics, horses and stud dogs, etc. However, no articles were published in "Wiadomości...".

For the first two years, the magazine had the subtitle: "Official Body of the Society for the Encouragement of Horse Breeding in Poland." In 1928, it was changed into the "Official Body for Horse Racing" and remained so until the outbreak of the war in 1939. The first editor of "Wiadomości Wyścigowe" in 1926 was Mieczysław Radwan. From the next year - 1927, Stanisław Haman edited this magazine for four years.

In 1931 and 1932, the editor of "Wiadomości Wyścigowe" was Jan Laszkiewicz, responsible in the Society for the Encouragement of Horse Breeding for maintaining the Stud Book of Thoroughbred Horses, the author of many articles about this breed of horses both in the interwar period and after the war.

In 1933, the editorial office of the magazine was taken over by Eng. Stanisław Schuch.

As calculated by Prof. The Prusai editions of "Wiadomości Wyścigowe" in the years 1926-1939 contained from 1012 to 1918 pages. The number of issues and their volume were not determined in advance, and "Wiadomości" was printed as needed. The last issues of a given year contained very valuable information for readers and those who complete the yearbooks of the magazine, right next to the issue, in parentheses, the word (last).

“After the outbreak of World War II, racing was interrupted and the publishing house was suspended. But the Germans resumed racing, first in 1941 in Lublin, and from 1943 also in Lviv. The horse racing authority was relaunched under a changed title as "Rennkalender für das generalgouvernement". The magazine was also published in Polish as "Race Calendar for the General Government". The yearbooks contained from 368 to 982 pages. The last issue under the rule of the occupier was published in Krakow on July 8, 1944. The yearbook was completed by the Polish authorities with number 5, published in Lublin on December 28, 1944.

In 1945, the publishing house returned to its former name "Wiadomości Wyścigowe", but from 1952, when the publisher became the State Horse Racing Tracks, a separate state enterprise - Warsaw, Race Track in Służewiec, the subtitle of the magazine was: "Official Bulletin of the State Horse Racing Tracks ".

Information on who the editor of "Wiadomości" is has ceased.

Author: Leslaw Kukawski
Equestrian and Breeding Dictionary