RACE PROTEST

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 119, 13 February 1935, Page 15

RACE PROTEST

Win of Rin Tin Tin WAS RIDER ELIGIBLE? The decision in the Hornby Handicap, the first race at Riccarton on Saturday, is the subject of a protest, it is understood, and the stakes have been impounded until the connections of Imperial Spear, the second horse, decide to continue with the matter or not. The protest concerns the qualification of B. Shand, rider of the winner, Rin Tin Tin, as a hurdle or steeplechase rider, the condition being that jockeys in this event shall have ridden in not fewer than three hurdle or steeplechase races in the previous two years. According to a statement made by Shand to the stipendiary steward, Mr. G. N. McLean, that jockey has ridden in three jumping races within the prescribed period, but on one of those occasions ii was a chance ride, he having mounted a fallen horse and completed the race on the animal.

If Shand needs the inclusion of this incident to qualify him, then it is apparent he must be ruled out, as he was not the official rider of the horse and could not have weighed out.

If the judicial committee of the Canterbury Jockey Club is asked to give a ruling, the qualification of Shand will hay' 1 a vital bearing on the eligibility of Rin Tin Tin to be recorded as the winner of the Hornby Handicap. TOLAGA BAY CLUB Handicaps Declared The following handicaps have been declared by Mr. Vile Shannon for the annual meeting of the Tolaga Bay Jockey Club to be held on February 21:—

WAIHATJ HACK HANDICAP, of £4O. Seven furlongs.

Acceptances close on Friday, February 15, at 8 p.xn.

Sunny Song .. 10 8 Bothwell 8 13 Big Book ... 10 1 Collision 8 1 Alby 10 0 Wolsov .... 8 3 Purse 10 0 Vahid ore 8 9 (told Stitch .. 9 10 Flying Mimic 8 9 Foreign Mono} <) 8 Victor Colima 8 0 Memnon 9 6 Lockfast 8 0 Fortene .... s 13 Prince Henry 8 0 HAUITI DISTRICT HANDICAP, of £25 Five furlongs. Summerhill .. 9 0 Peggy Defoe 8 7 Malapert .... 8 1 — Okawa .... 8 7 Patient Audiea .... 8 7 Prince 8 10 Ballyculanc . <8 7 Rod Gold ... s 10 Wharua 8 7 The Bru slier . 8 7 Hea ven 1 y—T win Takurua 8 7 gelding S 7 UAWA STAKES HANDICAP, of £50 One mile and a quarter. Sunny Sky .. 9 0 Big Dook .... 8 3 Marching Grumpy .... 8 0 Song 8 13 Gold Stitch .. 12 Synny Song . 8 10 Bothwell .... 7 6 Kahunoke 8 9 Valadore .... 7 0 WHAREKAKA HACK HANDICAP, of £35 Six furlongs. Warvane .... 9 3 Wolsey 7 4 Purse 9 o Master Cynic Quake 8 10 Prince Henry 7 0 Fortene .... 8 Valadore .... 0 Unexpected 7 Flying Mimic 7 0 DISTRICT HANDICAP, of £15 Seven furlongs. Summerhill .. 0 fl Peggy Defoe . 8 7 Malapert .... 8 12 Okawa s Patient Audiea .... 8 Prince 8 10 Ballyculanc . 8 7 Ped Gold .... 8 10 Wharua .... 8 7 The Brasher . 8 8 7 Heavenly— Takurua .... 7 Twill gelding 8 I FAREWELL HANDICAP, of £40. Six furlongs. Good Hunting 9 5 War vane .... 8 7 Sunny Sky .. 9 4 Hunting Day 8 3 Sunny Song . <j 3 Foreign Big Dook ... 8 1(1 Money 8 Alby 8 9 Quake 8 fl Grumpy .... 8 i Flying Mimic 7 fl