THE TURF.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVII, Issue 108, 8 May 1909, Page 14

THE TURF.

NEW ZEALAND EACING CONFERENCE. DECISIONS OF APPEAL BOARD. [BY TETiTGEAPH — PEESS ASSOCIATION^ NAPIER, 7th May. Sir George Clifford and Messrs. George Hunter and J. W. Abbott, the judges appointed by the New Zealand Racing Conference, have had two appeals before them. They have remitted the Cunningham case to the Auckland Metropolitan Committee for consideration of fresh evidence, which had not been produced at the previous hearing by them. In the Royal Soult case, the judges'' decision is as follows : "In the matter of the appeal by Samuel George Lindsay, owner of the horse Royal Soult, and Mark Ryan, jockey, against the decisions of the Auckland Metropolitan Committee endorsing disqualifications imposed by the Avondale Jockey Club, the judges are of opinion that the horse Royal Soult was, with the knowledge and consent of the owner, Samuel George Lindsay, prevented from winning the Nihotapu Handicap, run on the second day of the Avondale Jockey Club's spring meeting, 1908. The evidence is not decisive as to whether he was s<T prevented by an overfeed administered by one William Jones, as alleged by him, or by being deliberately pulled by the jockey, Mark Ryan, though many circumstances seem to indicate that the confession of William Jones was conclusive as between himself and Samuel George' Lindsay. The judges feel compelled to give Mark Ryan the benefit of their doubt as to the method adopted in stopping the horse. They therefore confirm the endorsement by the Auckland Metropolitan Committee of the disqualifications by the Avcndale Jockey Club of Samuel George Lindsay and 'the horse Royal Soult for two years, but reverse the decision of the said club as regards the disqualification of the jockey, Mark Ryan. They call the attention of the Auckland Metropolitan Committee to the evidence given in this case by William Jones, and recommend that he be disqualified for life. They order the deposits of the appellants to be refunded. '