REFUSED FOR TRENTHAM

Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 1, 1 July 1932, Page 4

REFUSED FOR TRENTHAM

-Refusal of the Wellington ■■ Racing Club to accept nomination is' the latest development in the Croupier case.- The colt was entered for events at the club's Winter Meeting, and his name appeared- in the nomination list, but he was not handicapped, and the secretary of the club now announces that his entry has been refused on the alleged'ground that it is not in order under the Rules of Racing. The action has been taken under rule 116, which states, inter alia:— -;• Rule 118: (1) The horsoa mentioned in sub- ; clause (2) of this rule aro hereby (a) Prohibited from being traine"d upon any - racecourse, or training track owned or occupied By, or in any way under the jurisdiction of, ■-■any racing club; . ' . ;. , (b) Declared to be ineligible to be entered \ lor or to start in any race. - Any such horse which is entered for or starts -in any ra«e shall ba disqualified for. that race. (2) The horses that shall be subject to the disabilities of subclause (1) of this rule are' the. following: ■ ' " (a) Any ■■ horso affected by any unregistered • joint interest. .: Apparently Messrs. John and James Paterson have entered Croupier for races .under the impression that the recent jiidg- . ment in the Supreme Court dissolving the registered partnership between them on „ the one hand and Mr. ,T. J. Corry on the f . other hand automatically resolved the 'joint interest registered with the New Zea- " land Racing Conference into one as be- • 'tween them (Messrs. J; and J. Paterson) alone.- The Rules of Racing make no pro- . vision for such a'case, and it would seem -that the Messrs. Paterson should have applied under rule 137 for registration of . the new joint interest now existing solely as between . themselves. They have _ not done this, and so the:Wellington.Racing Club, has refused the entry. : ■ .