RED TRAP SHOT

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29894, 7 August 1962, Page 4

RED TRAP SHOT

Mishap In Training

The Awapuni galloper. Red Trap, was destroyed at Riccarton yesterday after fracturing the sesamoid bones in his near foreleg while doing pacework on the sand Red Trap, one of three horses brought to Riccarton for the Grand National meeting by T. R Howe, was a nine-year- old gelded eon of either Red Mars or Booby Trap and Kehua. He was raced by Messrs A C. E Green and F G Thompson Red Trap was to have had his race as a hurdler in the Trial Hurdles last Saturday but he bad to forgo that engagement because of a bruised foot.

Two Trainers Fined

Alleged breaches Of the rules ol racing relating to employees were beard against three trainers by a speciallyappointed sub-committee of the New Zealand Racing Conference’s executive committee in Christchurch yfiterday. Mr G H Grigg presided W P. Hogan was charged with a breach of rule 146 (1) (A) of the rules of racing by employing for a period a jockey whose licence as a jockey had been cancelled Hogan pleaded not guilty, and the charge against him was dismissed. W. M Turner was charged with employing or otherwise permitting to work or to assist in any capacity in connexion with the care, control, or training of horses under his care, the same jockey from November, 1961. until about the end Of April, 1962 Turner pleaded guilty, and after hearing his explanation and replies to questions the committee fined him £lO L. H. Pratt pleaded not guilty to a charge of employing an apprentice jockey without first applying in writing to the last employer for and receiving a eatisfactory written character of the apprentice. After hearing Pratt’s statement and his cross-examination by Racecourse Inspector T. W. Allsopp, the committee "found him guilty and fined him £5