SPORTING NEWS.
TTJRF LAWSUIT AT CHRISTCHURCH.
(by telegraph—press association. )
Chkjstchurch, Tuesday. Mk H. Piper, lafce trainer of the racehorse Sultan, sued Mr "Williams, the owner of the horse, in the Resident Magistrate's Court, to-day, for an amount of commission alleged to be due over the Dunedin Cup. After hearing the evidence, the plaintiffs counsel elected to take a non - suit. During his cross-examination, Piper said Cutts, the owner and trainer of Dudu, had made a proposal to him, two days before the Wellington meeting, to ask Mr Williams to scratch Sultan for the Wellington Cup, and take half the stake won by Dudu, and give Cutts half the stakes if Sultan might win at Dunedin. Piper wrote a letter objecting to the proposal to Mr Williams, but after consulting with W. White, the jockey, who opposed the idea, he saw Cutts again and destroyed the letter. Piper, however, affirms the horses subsequently ran on their merits. The steeplechaser Orangeman was sold to-day to settle a partnership account, and fetched 80 guineas, J. Rae being the purchaser.
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Auckland Star, Volume XX, Issue 180, 31 July 1889, Page 2
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