TROTTING NOTES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 25560, 13 June 1944, Page 2

TROTTING NOTES

By Sentinel The light harness racing season will terminate with the two races on the South ..Canterbury Jockey Club’s programme on -“"with a view to assisting owners whose sulkies have been damaged in a race, it has been decided” (says the New Zealand Trotting Calendar) ‘ to establish a sulkv fund. For some time a sub-com-mittee of the New Zealand Trotting Association. at the request of the New Zealand Owners and Breeders’ Association, has been arranging a scheme which has now been accepted by the representatives of the Owners and Breeders Association. At presTnt the scheme is on a voluntary basis and all owners of sulkies are urged In their own interests, to contribute to the fund which will come into operation on August 1 next. The objects are to establish a fund by which persons registered with it mav claim therefrom, in accordance with the rules, an amount approved bv the trustees as compensation for a sulky damaged or destroyed at a totalisator or non-totalisator race mseting held by a club or racing club, or at a matinee race meeting or trial meeting run under the auspices of a club or Owners and Breeders’ Association. The scheme has been made possible by the financial assistance received from the trotting clubs and from the Canterbury Owners and Breeders’ Association.