HACK RACE RULES

Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28801, 23 January 1959, Page 4

HACK RACE RULES

£3OO In Fines For Breaches (New Zeaiana Free, AMOctationi WELLINGTON, Jan. 22. Fines of £lOO each were imposed today by the executive committee of the New Zealand Racing Conference on E. C. Loisel and G. W. B. Greene, joint owners of Yoga, and on Mrs M. E. Nestor-Bayliss, owner of Heroic Dogger, for wrongly entering and starting the horses in hack races when they were not eligible. Loisel and Greene were charged with entering and starting Yoga In five hack races in 1958. the horse having ceased to be a hack after winning at Cambridge on November 9, 1957. Yoga was unplaced in the first four, and won the fifth at Whangarei on October 18, 1958. with a' stake of £205 to the winner. Both defendants pleaded guilty. and each was fined £5O fdr en-i tering the horse' and £5O for starting it at Whangarei. They were discharged on the remaining charges. No direction was necessary regarding the stake-as this had been refunded to the club. Yoga was disqualified, for all the races. Mrs Nestor-Bayliss was charged with entering and starting Heroic Dogger in five hack hurdle races during the latter part of 1957 when it was-not eligible. Heroic Dogger was unplaced in two of the five races concerned, but was placed in the other three, winning stakes to the value of £230. Mrs Nestor-Bayliss pleaded guilty to all charges, and was fined £5O for entering and £5O for starting Heroic Dogger in the Hack and Hunters’ Hurdles at Taranaki, which it won. > . ; StakeaJPaM Baek The committee directed .that stakes won by ,4he«borBe; in'; the races for whicn it Was not eligible. less tax, be paid to the Secretary of the Racihg Conference to be disbursed in accordance with instructions from the executive committee. The executive reported that the breaches were through mistakes, and there was no suggestion of any deliberate intent or. Improper motive. The chairman said breaches Of this rule were, regarded, as seridus and led to many sbmpJicatiOM. Accordingly, a substahtittlipaitgHy was" warranted. *"■ - ’V? CANTERBURY JOCKEY QLUB' ' ENTRIES Entries for all events at the Summer Meeting to be held at Riccarton Racecourse on Saturday, February 7.. will close at 4 p.m. today. —Advt.