TROTTING SPORT

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 210, 2 June 1944, Page 7

TROTTING SPORT

Handicapping Problems

As the result of a conference betwoou the committee of the Auckland Trotting Club and representatives of the Owners, Trainers and Breeders’ Association, it. was decided to ask the handicapping committee of the New Zealand Trotting Conference to consider at an early date proposals for the clarification of the present handicapping system and the separation or the table of penalties governing various distances in the faster classes The meeting was unanimous that the publication of penalties in accordance with stakes value would simplify matters tor al] concerned. A table of separate penalties for sprint, middle distance and two miles races for presentation to the handicapping committee was approved. It was the unanimous opinion that the present system or penalizing sprint winners at a mile and a half and two miles and altering the marks of winners at two miles over the shorter distances was not In the best interests of trotting. , , Adopting a recommendation made ny tne association some time ago. the Auckland club is forwarding a remit to the Now Zealand conference asking that the rules K o '*' prning the renomination of horses paniended making it obligatory on all clubs and that horses who become eligible can be renominated even if handicaps for the succeeding meeting have beep deelarefL