ATTACKS NOT JUSTIFIED
Every time a pacer or trotter in < Auckland 4vorks itself out of the slow ■ classes in v the north and is sent south, < an. attack is made on the handicapping , system. The pony pacer Bayard, now assessed on 4.25, provides the ground for the latest criticism: Anybody not familiar with the position might be led" to conclude that the system of penalties in Auckland was framed on a special basis, whereas actually the same almost arbitrary scale operates throughout the Dominion. The best horses in the north are forced-away from their own territory simply because the clubs are unwilling to < shorten the limits and provide races for them. Obviously a special table of penalties cannot be drawn up for one province, and if there are anomalies or . inequities in the Dominion system the remedy is to suggest ways in which they can be removed.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 39, 15 February 1941, Page 15
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147ATTACKS NOT JUSTIFIED Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 39, 15 February 1941, Page 15
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