RACING INQUIRY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 20, 20 December 1932, Page 2

RACING INQUIRY.

FINDING IN EARTHQUAKE CASE Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, Dec. 20. Disqualification for a period of one year from December 19 had been imposed on the horse Earthquake and on F. L. Turley, D. W. Morgan, F. L. Fenton and Mrs M. L. Turley by the final judgment of the appeal judges of the New Zealand Racing Conference in the Earthquake case. The judges were Sir Charles Clifford and Messrs G. Gould and A. T. Donnelly. They say that after carefully considering the evidence adduced at the inquiries before the Greymouth District Committee, and hearing Turley, Morgan and Fenton they were satisfied that the evidence established beyond question that Earthquake was and is owned by Turley. Mrs Turley was unable to appear before them, but they had the opportunity of reading an affidavit by her which had been placed before the Greymouth District Committee, and Mrs Turley stated she could add nothing to the affidavit. They were satisfied that the various registrations of Morgan, Fenton and Mrs Turley as owners at different times of Earthquake were devices to conceal the fact that the horse was owned by Turley throughout the period. They, therefore, find that Turley, Morgan, Fenton and Mrs Turley were guiltv of corrupt practices under the Rules of Racing.