THOSE BOYCOTTS

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 104, 4 May 1937, Page 15

THOSE BOYCOTTS

During discussions on rival belting systems there have been, suggestions that win-and-place clubs should be boycotted by trotting owners and trainers (says an exchange). The good entries received by the Oamaru Trotting Club which uses the "Forbury" system, is sufficient indication that the majority of trainers • have sufficient sense to realise that if a reversion to the single-pool is to come it will have to be effected by moral persuasion. A boycott would put those participating in the position of strikers without any strike pay to lean on. In the South Island the clubs which use win-and-place include the Metropolitan, Canterbury Park, New Brighton, Oamaru, Ashburton, Methven, Forbury, Greymouth, Invercargill, Gore, Winton, and Wyndham, the only one of any importance adhering to the single-pool being the Timaru Club. The position is much the same in the North Island, and if the number of racing days is taken as a basis it is probable that win-and-place accounts for about SO per C£jnt. of the whole.