TROTTING CONFERENCE.

Grey River Argus, 12 July 1922, Page 7

TROTTING CONFERENCE.

WELLINGTON, July 11. The Trotting Conference opened today, Mr John Rowe (Auckland) presiding. He delivered an interesting address. The balance-sheet was adopted without discussion. The views of the Canterbury Owners’ and Breeders’ Association on the question of losing fees for drivers and riders, and the yards system of starting, were" placed before the conference, which .suggested that the association should get some club to take up its views and present them in the form of remits, as this would ba mora expeditious. A proposal to run races with big fields in heats, was referred to the executive. At the conference, Mr Howe moved to adopt a common rule in regard to the appointment of stipendiary stewards, and racecourse inspectors, and the establishment of a Stipendiary Stewards’ Committe. The Racing Conference adopted a similar rule last year. The conference amended two subclauses to limit the powers of racecourse inspectors to investigating matters which gave reasonable ground for suspicion of corrupt practices, and to make action by stewards' committees optional, not mandatory.