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NZ Truth, Issue 1208, 24 January 1929, Page 13

I Riders Absent I I ■ • ;;%- .' ■"■/■ '• . ;. -„ ■ | | THERE were not enough riders | I *■ to go .round m the High |. i Weight at Trentham on Tues- | | day. ' :■;.'■' '•'.■ ■ ■'•■•■ '. ' =. «| The conditions of the race are | i so framed as to make it only i 1 open to horsemen who -have rid- | 1 den three times over a steeple- | I chase or hurdle course during | 1 the lasi: two years. | I Pale Star arjd General Wai =' I were, m the ordinary course of = 1 events, to have taken their place 1 | m the field, but riders, who J i would fill the. . requirements, = 1 could not be found.' . | | An effort was. made to get re- | | gular horsemen, but the officials f 1 m charge would not stand for I I this. - I = The scratching pen then had i | to be used. 1