OFFICIAL CALENDAR WELLINGTON RACING CLUB. MIE Nkw Zealand Mail, has been appointed the Oflicial Calendar for the publication of all programmes in the District of Wellington, in terms of Rule 17 of the Rules of .Racing. Rule 17 reads;: —" The programme of each meeting n which the added money is UIOO or upwards must be advertised in full once at least in the Oilicial Calendar. The advertisement shall show that the programme has been approved by the Jockey Club, shall state the days on which the meeting is to begin and end, and the names of the stewards, judge, etartcr, clerk of the scales and handicapper." Ail notifications for the future published in this column arc so published under the authority of the Wellington Racing Club, and »re binding on country clubs and others, who must therefore duly note the same. PROGRAMMES PASSED : Masterton-Opaki Jockey Club—March 19th Otaki Maori Racing Club—May 24th Wairarapa Racing Club—March 21th and 20th. DISQUALIFICATION. Adam McMorran, disqualified by the Wellington Racing Club for life, and warned oil all Racecourses where the Metropolitan Rules are in force, for striking the rider of Jacob across the head while riding in the Second Hurdle Handicap at the Wellington Racing Club's Snring Meeting, November 18th, 1893. LICENSES. The following New Rules, passed as under by the Conference held in November, 1892, came into force on the Ist August, 1893. Trainers, jockeys, and apprentices must .make application at once. RULE IG7a. The Metropolitan Jockey Clubs shall issue annual licenses to trainers, jockeys, and apprentices. Only holders of such licenses shall bo qualified to train or ride nuder the " Rules of Racing-," except that an apprentice may for one month after the date of bis first mount in public ride races without holding a license. "Apprentice '' shall mean any lad employed in a training stable who has not previously ridden in public. . The fee paj'able for a trainer's license shall bo two pounds, for a jockey's license one pound, and for an apprentice's license ten shillings. 3. On application for a license the applicant shall forward to the Secretary of the Metropolitan Club of the district in which ho resides the necessary fee, together with his full name and address. Such application shall be dealt with by the Committee as they may deem fit. The Committee may also suspend or cancel any license, and any person whose liconse has been withdrawn or suspended on the ground of misconduct, or of the infringement of the "Rules of Racing," shall not bo allowed in any weighing-room, stand, or enclosure during the time his suspension is in force. 4 All licenses issued shall be immediately published in the " Official Calendar." 5. All licenses shall expire on the 31st July in each year. 6. An owner, or trainer, or both, who shall knowingly employ an unlicensed jockey, shall be fined any sum not exceeding twenty pounds each.
LICENSES ISSUED : Trainers —Wm. Davies, I. Freeth, H. Peters, J. J. Gravestock, K. McKenzie, F. Seccomb, C. Lyford, H. Fletcher, R. J. Walden, T. Olliver, S. Harris, H. Christie, P. B Crew. A. Peters. 11. McPhee. J. Swaysland, N. Miller, J. K. Huxtable, \Vi Hutana, Jas. Thomson, H. Killeen. Jas. Hilder. Jockeys—J. Armstrong, Jas. Peed, H. Peed, Geo. Bates, J. J. Gravestock, F. Seccomb, C. Penman, J. L. Proctor, 11. T. Withers. 11. J. Walden, Joseph Hughes, T. J. Daly, W. Thompson, S. Harris, F. Matthews, C. Spaceman Jno. Cooper, F. Hedge, R. Buckeridge, W. Buckeridge, P. Walkin, J. Keen, Jas. Russell, Maurice Cronin, Frank Merson, Cbas. Carmont, N. Miller, T. Winteringham, Isaac James, jun., Wm. Mcule. Wm. Thomson, H. Peters, Walter Lane, P. McDonough, James Thomson. T. Carmont, J. Hanna. Richard Hockley, John Jones, PI. Bills. Frank Tidswell, A. TrenKrove, Eriha Nana Himiona Teataotu, John Murtagh. Apprentices —L. Matthews, Gordon Russell, Hugh Ransfleld, John Carlctt. LICENSES CANCELLED. m McMorran's Trainer's and Jockey's Licensee, cancelled by the Wellington Racing Club, November ISth, 1893. FINES IMPOSED. William Brown, Jockey. £)■ t Wellington Pacing Ciub. l susijanded until amo' to the
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1152, 30 March 1894, Page 22
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