RACING APPEAL
Sir.—The amazing result of The Vulture—Authentic case has surely exposed a weakness in racing control. The judicial committee who first heard the case and had the great advantage of having watched The Vulture with their glasses decided the placings should stand and left Authentic the winner. The district conmittee—a more -numerous and higher local tribunal—heard the appeal made for The Vulture. It confirmed the judicial committee. It was left to three North Islanders to overrale two larger and as competent local authorities. So Authentic, the most consistent horse racing, lost to a horse which cannot compare with him in this respect. I understand the only new evidence given at Wellington was that of the stipendiary steward who prosecuted the case here. Surely this would not lead three racing judges in the north to overrule 12 in the south, most—if not all—of whom saw the race.—Yours, etc., May 31. 1945. F. P. NEALE. [The secretary of the Canterbury Jockey Club and District Committee (Mr F. T. H. Bell) had, no comment to make on this letter.]
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Press, Volume LXXXI, Issue 24582, 2 June 1945, Page 8
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