STAKES TO BE PAID,

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 160, 8 July 1937, Page 22

STAKES TO BE PAID,

CHARTERIS BAY CASE. DECISION OF ASSOCIATION. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON'. Wednesday. The New Zealand Trotting Association at a meeting to-day decided to advise the Auckland Trotting Club te> pay the stakes to the placed hoiwes in the Charteris Bay case. Following an objection by Mr. A. K. Commons, stipendiary- steward, to the Hist prize in the Mangwe Handicap, on the first day of the .Auckland Trotting Club's winter meeting on June 1!) being awarded to the winner. Charterie Bay. on the ground that the hoi**- was wrongly handicapped ill being on the 3.40 mark, the judicial committee of the Auckland Trotting Club impounded the stakes and referred the case to the New Zealand hotting Association. The matter" was covered by rule 400.

The chairman, Mr. H. W. Kite.•hingha'm. said the case was distinguished from the l)e S;>to case at Methveii. , in which the horse who wa* properly linml-k-iipped on CO.vds had started on 48yds. Charters Bay h«ul been, wrongly handicapped on the limit instead of 12yds, but had started on the murk;-., awarded, and once an acceptance liaif; been received under a handicap that had to stand. It was disclosed that the connections of Charterie Bay had started the horse in good faith, believing that «s it had not run into a place for seven months it had been let out a second. The horse is now on a 3.35 mark for a mile and a half.

The meeting also discussed rule 133, which give* clubs power to accept nominations of placed horses in any- class for a higher claee at the meeting* and decided to advise the Auckland Trotting Club that the proviso to ite rules that a horse had to do better time than its present aissessment wae contrary to rule 133 and ehould be deleted from future programmes.

The decieion of the stewards of the Auckland Trotting Club not to disturb the platings in the Cornwall Handicap, following an inquiry into the running of the winner, King's Play, in comparison with his form in the Adams Memorial Cup, was confirmed.

The Canterbury Park Trotting Club's action in reducing P. Gallagher to D grade for three months for careless driving wae approved.