RENOWNATION OE SLIPSTREAM

Press, Volume XC, Issue 27322, 12 April 1954, Page 4

RENOWNATION OE SLIPSTREAM

NO PROVISION BY CLUB IN CONDITIONS '

Slipstream, winner of the Reta Feter Handicap, the main event for trotters on the second day of the- New Zealand Metropolitan Trotting Club’s Easter meeting at Addington on Saturday, and winner of the Spreydon Handicap the previous week, will not be allowed to start in the New Zealand Hambletonian Handicap on the final day of the meeting. Slipstream qualified for next week’s race as a result of his win on Saturday, but the conditions of the prpgramme do not give the right of renomination. Slipstream has been nominated for the Intermediate Handicap next week, but as there is no back limit to the race he cannot be transferred to the New Zealand Hambletonian Handicap, as is provided in the conditions for the meeting. This is not the first occasion that owners have found themselves in the same position as Sir John McKenzie and G. B. Noble, owner and trainer respectively of Slipstream. The condition in the club’s programme, which says that the provision of rule 225 of the Rules of Trotting, covering the renomination of hojses which incur a handicapping penalty, will not apply, does not seem to be of any value. Slipstream's appearance in the New Zealand Hambletonian Handicap, one of the most important events on the calendar for horses of bis gait, would have aroused considerable interest.