RACING CONFERENCE

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 9819, 19 July 1900, Page 8

RACING CONFERENCE

[per press association.]

Wellington, This day.

The RaciDg Confereuce opened this morning UDder the presidency of Sir Clifford. Every affiliated club represented. The chairmau read his annual report, and its consideration was made the firat order for to-nighb's pitting. The balance-sheet was adopted. In his annual report Sir George -Clifford paid a tribute to the Hon. James Carroll for the sportsmanlike spirit in which he dealt with racing questions ■which came within his administration as <Jolonial Secretary. Sir George ,drew attention to some points in which Teform would be advantageous, and he expressed the hope that the Conference would deal with the various matters suggested. The conference should regard with pleasure the more stringent .fiction against unauthorised > totalisators of Wking imitations of them. The jelic of ba"!3a.rUm which survived in the deduction of five per cent from winnings -was now confined to thirty clubs out of eighty-three. He announced that the .English Jockey Club had included the JJew Zealand Racing Conference on the list of turf authorities, having a reeiprocale arrangement with it for the mutual enforcement of sentences passed on offenders. He gave some interesting particulars concerning a spurious jockey •who may be a tout spieler or general rogue, who still discredits an honorable profession to which he is an unwelcome Jianger-on. The Dunedin Jockey Club moved that the following be added to the interpretation clauses <>f the Rules of Racing:— "Definition of race meeting—A meeting held for the purpose of carrying out a programme of racing by horses or ponies necessarily by a club) provided that any programme at which the total amount of added money or stakes to be competed for by horhee or poniee does not exceed £10, or of that value, shall not be deemed a race meeting within the .application of these rules." The motion ma lost.