Appeal likely
Due to the non-availabil-ity of counsel for both sides, the appeal against Freightman’s disqualification from first equal in the Firestone Eurosteel Pace at Addington on January 3 is unlikely to be heard until after the $250,000 Max Harvey Auckland Cup. • This being the .case, it will solve a rating problem for the Southland four-year-old Malaz, which reached open class (to be eligible for the cup) after winning the Firestone Pace outright. However, because there is no penalty for dead-heats in trotting, Malaz could be reverted back to a C 9 assessment and thus miss a start in the Auckland Cup if the Freightman appeal is successful. The New Zealand Trot-
ting Conference is to seek clarification of the rules to find out whether Malaz can remain an OC pacer if he wins or is placed again before the Freightman ap-, peal is heard.
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