A MISTAKE

NZ Truth, Issue 1043, 21 November 1925, Page 13

A MISTAKE

But Whose Error P HANDICAPpTrS' LOT I (From "Truth's" Special Auckland ' Rep.) "Truth" knows of a prominent handicapper who was generally believed to have thrown one horse into a Bracelet up north recently, when m reality the name of the 'horse submitted to the weight adjustor to handicap was entirety different from the one nominated. As a matter of fact, the horse concerned was not eligible to run m the Bracelet, owing to having won a hack event before the date of acceptance or m reality time of starting. . It is almost certain that had ' the horse l'ef erred to been eligible to start he ...would at least have shared favoritism With the actual winner. ; However, the incident only goes to show that a handicapper may be blamed for mistakes at times, when m reality he is not guilty of an error. In the case under review, it was all m the spelling. .of "a name. .....-, -„ "A wrong letter m the horse's name the handicapper treat the entrant as a maiden pure and simple. .And he would have been able to clear himself m the matter absolutely ; had the horse concerned been eligible to start and have Avon. ,