Special meeting on betting

Press, 27 August 1979, Page 23

Special meeting on betting

A special meeting of the Trotting Conference is to be called to consider the on and off-course computer betting system proposed by the T.A.B. This was decided at a meeting of the executive held in Christchurch on Friday. The meeting, which will be held in the next few

months, will be asked to give the executive the right; to negotiate with the T.A.B. | on behalf of all trotting' clubs. Some small changes made in the qualifying sys-! tern. In future a horse fin-, ishmg second in a trial will; be deemed to have qualified'' should it record a time two ' seconds inside the limit. A horse finishing third 1 will continue to be granted a" qualifying ticket should it; better the required time by ‘' three seconds. Any B-grade horse win- ’ ning at a totalisator meeting i will be advanced a grade i even when the race is not i penalty-bearing. 1

i A horse finishing fourth in a B-grade trial will be eligible to be promoted to the higher grade. A sub-committee, which will include a representative of the Standardbred Breed ers’ Association, has been set up to investigate the possibility of licensing stud farms.

The $30,000 penalty limit 'or free-for-all and invitation ■aces will remain, but horses vith slower assessments •ecording placings in such aces will not be penalised. This will prevent a horse 'inishing second or third in t race such as the Auckland Cup being penalised to open :la _ s should its assessment >e C 8 or C 9 before the went. The president (Sir James James) and the chief executive officer (Mr J. Rowley) vere appointed New Zealand epresentatives to the meetng of the World Trotting Conference to be held in ’erth in November.