RACING OWNER FINED: HORSE

Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27636, 18 April 1955, Page 5

RACING OWNER FINED: HORSE

DISQUALIFIED

MICHAEL BRIERLY’S WIN AT RICCARTON

Michael Brlerly has been disqualified for the Wigram Handicap, a race he won on the second day of the Canterbury Jockey Club’s meeting at Riccarton last week. Michael Brlerly was not eligible to run in the race, which was run under hack conditions, because he had won his way out of hack class when he was successful in the Milford Hack Handicap at Ellerslie on November 8, 1952. That race was worth £525 to the winner. Michael Brierly’s owner, J. S. Shaw, was fined the minimum of £25 on each of three charges by the judicial committee of the Canterbury Jockey Club on Saturday. Two charges dealt with Shaw incorrectly nominating Michael Brlerly for the digram and Merivale Handicaps, and the other with running the horse in the Wigram Handicap at the club’s autumn meeting. Shaw admitted the three offences and said he had overlooked the fact that the horse had won one race worth more than £5OO to the winner while he was investigating the horse’s aggregate earnings. In imposing the minimum fine on each charge the judicial committee took into account that Shaw’s conduct in respect of entering and running his horses had at all times been exemplary, and that the errors were inadvertent. Spike Jones, Dahlia, Ultra, and Chellene finished second, third, fourth, and fifth behind Michael Brlerly in the Wigram Handicap and each is now promoted one place.