A COSTLY ERROR

Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 305, 20 September 1943, Page 7

A COSTLY ERROR

Dominion Special Service,

CHRISTCHURCH. September 19. The Southland-owned Sal’s Pal was responsible for two sensations at Oran, hrtt bv his remarkable finishing effort in t.iO first division of the Ohapi Hack Handicap, and second by his disqualification lor the ll .lu'st as the public Celt prepared lor Paper Lily’s success Sal’s Pal came on the scene and though he seemed to be only eantering and his rider only appeared intent on keeping him on a straiglit pa it. hrn long strides soon threatened the R-tdet s position and he beat her narrowly, but =oln There was hardly time to appreciate I he spectacle before it was waltzed that somethins was amiss as tlie of the sic ond division was held up for several mtnUt Later it was announced that Sal’s Pal had been disqualified and it transpired that his rider, R. J-, ? la ckle, y al Shed out 81b overweight, making his weight. ♦• ■ • By some clerical mistake the A !! ' L appropriate book was altered to a no? to 9.1. and tlie owner, as reqitired by the rules, signed the alteration evlilentlj without noticing the incorrect stewards gave tlie ,na tP '’, I ?or7 s w^To onation. but under tlie rules there was no o| tion but to disqualify tlie ll, ? r . se ' 11Y Sal’s Pal is a four-year-old gtld b„ *’> Salmagundi and had lll8 „ he burton on the previous Satimlaj carried over a stone overweight ana nn ished'in the middle of the ! l j® one no doubt about ins bi illutm. •. of .1, Cochrane’s team at Gore,