FORBURY PARK TROTTING CLUB

Evening Star, Issue 22351, 29 May 1936, Page 4

FORBURY PARK TROTTING CLUB

MONTHLY MEETING OF COMMITTEE The monthly meeting o£j;he Forbury Park Trotting Club was held last evening, when there were present Messrs 6 S. Irwin (chairman), J. M. Samson H. Archbold, W. J. L Coughlan A Clark, T Fogg, C R. Hadfield, H. Hallidav, D. C. Jolly, J. Mitchell, A. G. Neill. J. Richardson, and J. Trengrove. Mr R. J. Dunlop, owner of Young Travis, who dropped dead during the Winter Meeting, wrote thanking the club for the trouble taken in forwarding him the skin of his horse, which he was having tanned and preserved. The reports of the stipendiary steward, racecourse inspector, and gates supervisor in connection with the recent meeting were received. ■ ' Tho New Zealand Trotting Association advised that the Judicial Committee’s finding in the inquiry held into the interference in the Peninsula Handicap had been endorsed. A statement of accounts, showing a loss over the Winter Meeting, was presented, and considering the climatic conditions experienced was considered satisfactory. In response to a request from the director of the New Zealand Institute for the Blind a donation of £2 2s was made The New Zealand Trotting Association advised that nominations for seats on the board must be in hand by June 20.—1 t was decided to nominate the retiring members—Messrs’ J. H. Williams, J. R. M'Kenzie, and J. AT. Samson \ It was also decided to forward three remitiS for consideration at the annual meeting of the New Zealand Trotting Conference. Rule 195, regarding the time allowed for _ the confirmation of telegraphed nominations ; rule 231, mailing it necessary that all applications for licenses must be first approved bv a committee before,endorsement. by a secretary; and rule 270, providing that all horses going on to the track to do their preliminaries must be I'iddL i or driven the same way as the race is run. It was decided to apply for the following dates next season Spring Mooting, October 22 and 24; Summer Meeting, January 28 and 30;.and Winter Meeting. May 27 and 29. Accounts amounting to £423 6s 2d were passed for payment.

In response to a request from driver# t was decided to make an opening m the railing on the outside of the track near the mile and a-half starting barriers so that in the event of bad we*, ther drivers will be able to take their horses under the trees for shelter.