RACING SENSATION

Evening Star, Issue 19583, 15 June 1927, Page 8

RACING SENSATION

ALLEGED “RINGING IN”

NEW ZEALAND TROTTING MARE,

Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright

PERTH. June 15

(Received Juno 15, at 11.55 a.m.)

A sensation has been caused in sporting circles by the announcement that a prominent New Zealand trotting mare has been “ rung in ” in tho Eastern States and Western Australia. It is alleged that a mare was landed in Western Australia last year under the name of Gathered Gold. The mare lost her first race through being pulled from one side of tho track to tho other, but she won the second so easily that the stewards disqualified her and her nominator for two years for not having tried tho first time.

The mare was sold for £SO, and the vendors left the State.

The trotting officials became suspicious, and instituted inquiries, and kept tho horse in a private stable.

A recent arrival from New Zealand recognised tho horse as soon as he saw her.

It is alleged that she won races in other States under another name, and it is stated that tho New South Wales Trotting Association will take action for alleged “ringing in.” It is reported that tho New South Wales Association refused registration after the mare’s arrival from New Zealand. She then raced in country districts under another name, subsequently racing in Victoria and New South Wales as Gathered Gold.