TROTTING CONTROL
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(Br Telegraph.—Prew Association.) } , CHRISTCHURCH. Thi» Day. [ At a meeting of the board of the New; Zealand Trotting Association a letter was received from the Rotorua Trotting, Club asking if it would be permissible to include in its programme a local saddle event for which the prize 'would be a trophy only, the race to be purely amateur in character. The association replied that there would be no objection provided the horses and riders were registered. The stipendiary steward reported on the unsatisfactory starting of a trotting event at the South Canterbury Jockey Club's Meeting. He stated that if a qualified trotting starter had been employed the, mistake, couM not have occurred. It was decided to circularise racing clubs including trotting events on their programmer asking that, wherever possible, qualified trotting- starters should officiate for trotting': .events.
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 108, 10 May 1933, Page 6
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140TROTTING CONTROL Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 108, 10 May 1933, Page 6
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