FURTHER INSTANCES

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 125, 29 May 1934, Page 4

FURTHER INSTANCES

-BARRING ON TOTALISATOR

*- Information as to ■whether a horse had ever been baued on the totahsitor in Xew Zealand was asked by a correspondent ( 'Wager") last week, and an affirmative answer was necessauly giv^n. 4 It i\ as stated that only one instance, th,at of St. Hippo in the 1893 ' Great Northern Dei by, could -be recollected. Another conesponclent ((Aghoriby*/) now writes thatVhe remembeis at l^ast two other ocicosionb on which horses were so-baried. "Aghonby" crates: —"Your answer to 'Wager* question xc buried hoises on the totahsator is~to my inind-eironeous. About 1894 a tiotting marc (the name has slipped my memory) was barr,ed at the Goie Meeting, I believe T.1 Bedding was , the owner. Liberator, one* of the best, was also barred in the Gieymoutli or Inangahua Cup, or Somewhere oh the Coast. Trusting you can look up records." "* The records have therefore been further searched about these dates, and the two instances to h,v\e been re vealed

veuiea. • The instance occurred at Gore on January 18, 1893, just over a fortnight alter the ,G.N. Derby m which St. Hippo had been 'baired. The mare was Mr H. Lambert's Kitty, and the race was the Handicap Tjine Trot at the Gore Racing ,Club's Summer Meeting. The field was eight strong, and the baired Kitty, handicapped 65sec, duly won, but the dividend was paid on the second horse. Liberator instance -was in the Autumn Handicap at the Reefton Meeting on April 1-of the same year. There were four starters in this race,1 and Mr. T. Daly's great gelding was baried Liberator won, but the dividend was paid out on the second horse, Maid off the Valley, owned by Mr. W. Claughesy.- On the second day of this meeting Liberator, raised 161b m the weights, had on.ly two opponents, Maid of the Valley , and The, Dreamer (who had finished third on, the . first day), but on this occasion .he was not . barred, and in winning again he paid , quite a fair price. , * ' ', The barring of horses aroused a storm 'of criticism at that tune, and,in 1895 "tb.e rule was added to the Rules ,of Racing that "no horse shall be barred'on the _ totahsator." , ~ „ "