Racing Conference.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 9820, 20 July 1900, Page 5

Racing Conference.

[per press association.]

Wellington, Last night.

At to-day's sitting of the Racing Conference* it was decided that no new jockey's license be issued unless the applicant has served three years in a recognised training establishment; that no trainer shall run horses in his own name unless he is a registered partner in their ownership ; that the programme of every meeting held between 30th April and Ist September shall contain at least one flat race of not less than one mile on each day ; that two-year-olds shall not be allowed to race in any handicap in which horses other than two and three-year-olds are engaged ; that no jockey who is also a trainer shall ride in any race in which more than one horse trained or owned by himself runs, but if only one horse so trained starts, he can j ride that horse and no other.

The totalisator permit committee recommended that any club which has no permanent racecourse or improvements to

the value of £250 be not eligible for permit after the year 1900-1901. This was agreed Jto. Rule 7 was interpreted that country clubs having trotting races on their programmes must give the full amount of stakes according to the rules. On the motion of the Greymouth Jockey Club Rule 163 was amended, making it compulsory that all horses running in the same ownership shall be bracketed on the totalisator. The following new rule, drafted by the chairman, was agree t d to: —"On the request of the judges ib shall be tbe duty of the Jockey Club to investigate any collateral offences remitted by the judges for their consideration.' The Hawke's Bay Jockey Club moved, "That all clubs giving stakes of the value of £500 or upwards at their meeting shall have one weight-tor-age or classical race at such meeting ; the stake for such race shall be in proportion of not less than 10 per cent on the total added money given in stakes at such meeting. This regulation shall not apply to meetings held between 31st May and Ist September." —This was negatived. It was decided that country clubs shall before June Ist in every year submit dates for their race meetings to the metropolitan club of the district, and the metropolitan club shall transmit them by Ist July, with any remarks thereon that may appear necessary, to the Conference. It was resolved that the Conference at its annual meeting shall fix dates of race meetings throughout the colony for the ensuing racing year. The question of having a uniform hurdle for the colony was relegated to a committee to consider.