SPORTING

Marlborough Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 139, 16 November 1887, Page 3

SPORTING

THE PIIOTEST AGAINST LOOHIEL

We take tho following from our exchanges :—The protest wl'Yh has been entered against Loohiel, the winner of flic New Zealand Cup, seems r kely to devolope into a sporting cause celebre. The latest •’•’formation on the subject is that Mr D. O’Brien has commenced proceedings against the Canterbury Jockey Club, Mr Waiter Stringer beYg retaYed as b’s

legal representative. Although tlie stewards on Thursday evening over-ivYd the protest after taking evidence, they have withheld payment of tho stakes pend’ng the result of O’Brien’s action. There appears to be a general concensus of that so far as tho question of fact is concerned there is no doubt whatever but that tho horses were started at the wrong place. Tho principal depended on by the objectors is the fo’YwYg : “Rule Ih’J. —The horses shall bo stai.cd from a walk. If the starter n”ow a statu to tako place Y front of the staitYg post, the start is void, and the horses must bo started agaY, and the starter shah forfeit a sum not excecdYg £.)().” On Saturday the Club was solved with legal process, calling upon them uo show cause why the race shou’d not be declared null and void.

“Pegasus,” the sportYg v. ’.tcv of the DunedY Star, who was present at the C.J.C. McetY.g, said it was no secret that Mr Stead tried to wY the N.Z. Cup with Beresford and that Loohiel was not given his head till it was seen that his stable companion was beaten. Liehiel was the most heavily backed horse Y the race, and his victory was the hardest knock the ring ha ve ever had. CouceruYg tho Cup difficulty, thosuMio w viler says: The Jockey Club took evidence on T au-sday re. Mr O’Brien’s protest in connection v 'tli the New Zealand Cup, and though the clearest evidence was given that the stoic took place two choYs or more Yside tho post, they disallowed it. .An injunction was immedhitely served on them by Mr Walter Stringer, as so’Yitor, not to pay over the stakes to Mr Stead, and tho matter w!”

next come uo in tho law Courts. Tiiis means that tnerc wi’ l be no sot” Yg over the Cup t/’ 1 the matter is decided by tlm law Cor is.”