WHAFFOR?

NZ Truth, Issue 1285, 17 July 1930, Page 13

WHAFFOR?

Sensational Protest WITNESS FAILS WKen Havering won the last day at-Trentham big punters went m for their chop and just.w hen they were working out exactly what they had to collect they were knocked for a row of. ashcans. TJP to the top of the pole on the numV.> ber. r board ran 1 the green flag— a protest 'had been entered. A thousand questions were, launched, each one boiled down, demanding to know: "Wfiaffor?" ■' It did not take long- for the reason to get abroad. The connections of the second horse, Pripcev. of Qrange, had entered a protest,' -riot y for anything that had happened m the race, but on the grounds that: Havering was not trained.'by the person' whose name figured on the card. , . Havering, who has had more than one; trainer, was given m the race book as being trained by "owner, Hawera." > The stipes started to rush round — a short priced favorite and the money locked up was no good to the club with the last race all but on them. The judicial committee was collect-' ed and then the word was 'passed out to send the complainant m. And then another sensation. The protesting party did hot want to go on with the plaint. That was that, and the committee had no other option than to allow it to be withdrawn. The man working the flags was told to let the crowd know, but' he had to run up the blue bunting, which means "protest sustained.";, ... Several punters collapsed, but when the brown — "protest dismissed"— went up they made quick recoveries. It was - difficult to find anything about the 'incident, tout from what could be gathered the witness for the complainant would not face the music when called on., He is said^to be a man well-known ' m both branches of the game. Havering did not have his owner to look after him A at Trentham, and it may have been on that ground that the protest was entered. What "Truth" would like to know is whether the £2, which must accompany a protest, - was . handed -back to the Prjnce (of Orange camp. It certainly should riot have been.