TROTTING AT HUNT MEETINGS
(Pek United Press Association) TIMARU, July 19. The committee of the South Canterbury Hunt to-day decided to protest against the action of the Racing Conference in deciding that after January 1, 1936, no hunt club shall include a trotting event at a totalisator meeting. It is felt that the South Canterbury Hunt is obliged to consider the interests of farmers over whose country they hunted, and to stage a trotting race, especially as jumping and hunters’ events were so well catered for on the programme. It is considered that the hunt clubs concerned should have been consulted before the resolution was passed, and it was decided to ask Christchurch, Waimate, Otago, and Birchwood Hunts to fie associated with the protest. JOCKEY’S APPEAL DISMISSED (Per United Press Association) WELLINGTON, July 19. The appeal of the jockey, A. J. Gilmer, rider of Ruby Meteor in the Wellington Steeplechase last week, was dismissed by the Wellington District Committee at a special meeting to-day. Gilmer was suspended for three months by the Wellington Racing Club’s Judicial Committee on a finding that he deliberately attempted to run Valpeen off at the last fence, and it was against this decision that he appealed.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22628, 20 July 1935, Page 19
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