UNPOPULAR DECISION

NZ Truth, Issue 1061, 25 March 1926, Page 12

UNPOPULAR DECISION

Exciting Scene at Brighton PUNTERS THREATEN JUDGE

(From "Truth's" Special Christchurch Representative.)

When the numbers went up declaring the plaeings after the finish of the Burwood Handicap at New Brighton, there was an angry demonstration by the crowd m the inside enclosure and they threatened to pull the pickets off the fence.

THE crowd 'waited for the judge to leave the box, having previously threatened to throw him m the river, but they failed to notice the right official and took to one of the timekeepers. It all happened because they thought Dillon Wilkes had beaten Judge Hancock and Talent. It was a tight and difficult finish. Turning for home,, Talent was on the rails Avith Judge Hancock alongside him. . Tlie pair wore being closely attended by Dillon Wilkes, and m the straight he had /to maJ<e his effort on the outside of them. Dillon Wilkes was under pressure all through the last furlong, and m addition to being hard

pushed he bored out to the outside fence. . Sixty yards from the judge he was about half a length m front of Judge Hancock - and Talent, but m the run to the post Judge Hancock and Talent came again. As the line was crossed, none could tell which had won but the judge. 1 . The driver of Dillon Wilkes said he v/on, and the driver of Judge Hancock vas confident that his horse was first to cross the line. " Three experienced horsemen who were alongside the judge's box stated that the. plaeings were correct. So it seems that it was a case, of the pocket affecting most people's eyesight. It so often does.