RACING AND TROTTING.
CLAUSE PERMITTING CHANGE REPEAL STRONGLY FAVOURED. Speaking at the annual meeting of the Auckland Trotting Club yesterday, the president, Mr. J. Rowe, said that when the 1924 Gaming Amendment Bill was passed by Parliament, a clause was included which allowed clubs to change from galloping to trotting or trotting to galloping. That clause had brought about a very unsatisfactory state of affairs. Several racing clubs in the South Island had made application to change over to trotting and he understood there were some trotting clubs in the North Island anxious to change to galloping. He had always stated that trotting did not want extra days at the expense of galloping, neither did the racing people want trotting clubs to change over to them. The clause was a most vicious one and had brought about much dissatisfaction among the clubs. If a club had a slight reverse it agitated for a change, instead of trying to meet the situation. The sooner the clause was repealed the better it would be for all concerned. The Trotting Conference was opposed to any of its clubs making a change, and was not hankering after any of the Racing Conference permits, but would do everything possible to continue the friendship and goodwill which had always existed between the two branches of the sport.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19719, 19 August 1927, Page 16
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