APPEAL UPHELD.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 139, 13 June 1936, Page 10

APPEAL UPHELD.

Stirling Lady Case—Race at Wyndham. & (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) DUNEDIX, this day. The decision of the appeal judges, appointed by the New Zealand Trotting Conference, to hear the appeal of Mrs. M. Clark, of Winton, owner of the trotter Stirling Lady, against the decision of the New Zealand Trotting Association dismissing her appeal from a decision of the Wyndham Trotting Club, is now announced.

The judges, Messrs. B. S. Irwin, A. C. Hanlon and .T. S. Sinclair, uphold the appeal and ordered the return of the deposits made by the appellant for the appeal, and referred the question of costs to the New Zealand Trotting Conference. Their conclusion was that the proceedings. which purported to lie an inquiry by the stewards of the club, conseouent unon an objection made bv the stipendiary steward, were irregular and ultra vires. Quite apart from this conclusion, the judges that the appellant could succeed on other grounds.

Tile, facts are that in the concluding race at the Wyndham meeting Stirling Lady beat Pot Luck, but the judge's pricings were reversed by the judicial' committee on the ground that Stirling Ladybored in in the final stages. The club's decision was upheld by the New Zealand Trotting Association, whereupon the present proceedings were taken.