INQUIRY MOOTED.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 63, 14 February 1939, Page 10

INQUIRY MOOTED.

PERFORMANCES AT FORBURY PARK. Per Press Assosciation. DUNEDIN, Feb. 13. The president, Mr B. S. Irwin, occupied the chair at a full meeting of stewards of Forbury Park Trotting Club this afternoon to consider the resolution adopted last week by the Board of the New Zealand Trotting Association regarding the “very great discrepancy between the respective performances of the horses Parisienne and Lucky Jack in the Dunedin Cup Handicap on the first day of the Forbury Park Trotting Club’s summer meeting and their respective performances in the Metropolitan Handicap on the second day of the same meeting.” The board was of opinion that an inquiry should be hold to ascertain the reason for such discrepancies, and suggested the advisability of the Forbury Park Trotting Club holding such inquiry. If, however, the Forbury Park Club preferred not to do so, the New Zealand association proposed to hold one, as there was a very strong feeling that the respective performances were so inconsistent as to justify those concerned being called upon to give an explanation of the discrepancies. The meeting of the stewards of the Forbury Park Club to-day was held in committee, but from what can bo gathered the stewards found that they had little, if any, additional information to work on to enable them to come to a definite decision. In the circumstances, they decided that, unless the stipendiary steward at the meeting in question, Mr F. Beer, had fresh information to place before them, they could not proceed any further. They, therefore, accepted the alternative offered them by the Trotting Association and agreed to ask it to conduct an inquiry. There seems doubt, however, whether the asssoeiation has power under the rules to conduct such an inquiry.