TROTTING

Evening Star, Issue 19839, 12 April 1928, Page 3

TROTTING

MEETING OF THE ASSOCIATION [Peb United Press Association.] CHRISTCHURCH, April 11. A meeting of tho New Zealand Trotting Association was held to day. The New Brighton Trotting Club reported on what is known as tho Free Advice case in the Eclipse Handicap at the New Brighton Meeting. Jt was held by tho Judicial Committee of the club that Bryce, driving Free Advice, had interfered with Baron Bingen, and tho committee altered the judge’s placings, making Baron Bingen (Clarke) first and Free Advice second. Bryce was fined £25, In the course of the discussion to-day reference was made to the rumors current that the patrol steward (Mr J M'Creanor) was interested in Clarke’s stable. It was decided to rotor the matter back to tho club, and a further resolution was carried that Mr M'Creanor should be given an oppor tunity to deny the rumors. The protest lodged by T. G. Fox against Audubon Child, winner of the Kaikoura Trotting Cup, was considered. The case had .previously been considered by the executive, which had commented on the'scanty notes of the evidence taken at the first inquiry, and had reported that it iVas unable to recommend that the protest should be uphold. Tho association found as follows; —That the association expresses grave dissatisfaction with'the manner in which the case was conducted by the club, and, further, that the bail turn, which has been advanced as the cause of the alleged interference, must be improved, and that no further programmes of tho club will bo passed by the association until satisfactory guarantees are forthcoming that tho matters mentioned have been attended to. It was decided that C. Carnie, trainer of the horse Harold Moor, a winner at Invercargill, be called upon to appear before tho association to show cause why he should not ho dealt with under the rules for having trained a horse pther than his own while holding only an amateur license. It was also decided to order that the stakes should be paid out to the second, third, and fourth place-fillers. The case of J. Walsh, driver of Needles at Oamaru, and tho appeal of the owner, Mr A. Lindsay, were considered. The Oamaru Club had reversed the judge’s placing*, making John Dec first and Needles second because of interference by the wrongful use of tho whip by Walsh.-—Mr J. M. Samson moved that Walsh be disqualified for six months.—Eventually it was decided to refer the case back to the club, asking for an opinion whether the interference was wilful or not. Mr Lindsay is to bo informed that his appeal was not lodged within the specified time. The case of the disqualification of A. E. Adams, jun., for three months at the recent Wanganui Meeting was considered. Eventually it was decided that as the Judicial Committee was wrongly constituted, there being six members instead of five, tho matter be referred back to the club, and that up to the present the disqualification on Adams does not exist. F. Holmes applied for a remission of Ihe term of three months’ disqualification imposed on him by the Forbnry 'l’rotting Club in January.—lt was decided to advise Holmes that the board could not see its way clear to accede to bis request. _ . On the recommendation of the Incensing Committee, it was decided that F. G.° Holmes’s driving and riding license he cancelled for two months, dating from Saturday next.