Identification demanded

Press, 31 May 1977, Page 33

Identification demanded

PA Masterton | The identity of the Waikato stud under suspicion for; falsifying its returns must be released this week. Blood-1 stock agent, Mr Glyn Tucker, said in Masterton on ' Saturday night. Mr Tucker was addressing the “Philip Morris Filly off the Year” function. “The New Zealand Racing) Conference has had thisi information for two years. It’s time it did something and did it now,” Mr Tuckerj said. “If not you people who have built up a flourishing and worthy thoroughbred industry are in danger of having your credibility in disrepute. “At the moment every stud in the Waikato is under suspicion,” Mr Tucker said. “The Australian press has assaulted us over this matter. “A leading Brisbane news-, paper has carried a front-i page story on this issue carrying a heading ‘What the hell are you doing’.” Mr Tucker said another Australian paper had gone so far as to name a stud as the one involved in the scandal. That was not right. The stud concerned should be named immediately, Mr|

Tucker said. "The whole thing is bad news for our industry.” Mr Tucker said he was appalled that the New Zealand Racing Conference had allowed quarter horses to be registered. “I am sad to say that thei legislation which has allowed this in inept. “The Mana of our whole; thoroughbred industry could be destroyed in one fell swoop. I am staggered to find we have opened the door to an opposite breed,” he added. CONFERENCE V lEW Mr A. R. Algie, Secretarymanager, of the Racing conference. said yesterday that the conference was not yet in a position to say whether there will be a formal inquiry into alleged irregularities concerning breeding returns furnished to the conference by a Waikato stud according to a Press Association message from Wellington. I In two cases consideration iis being given to the blood--1 typing of the horses and as ! these samples are required Ito be sent to England for , analysis the final decision is not imminent.” Mr Algie said that Mr Tucker was in error when stat-

ing that the Conference hadi had the information for two years for it is less than 12! months since the racecourse inspector began the present} inquiry. “I do not share Mr Tu-' cker’s concern regarding thei registration of quarter horses,” said Mr Algie, “for registration purposes quarter horses are in the same category as a farm hack of unknown pedigree and horses which have as their sire or dam a trotting horse. There have been numerous occasions in the past when such horses have been registered for racing and some have raced with success. “It should be remembered,” said Mr Algie, “that unless the sire or dam of a horse is registered with the conference the parentage is designated as being of unregistered pedigree, even though the particular sire or dam or the horse itself may in fact be registered with another association. "Unless the sire and dam of a horse are both entered in the New Zealand Stud Book the progeny are not eligible for admission so there is no question of any quarter horse that is registered for racing being eligible for entry into the New Zealand Stud Book.”