A SPEECH BY THE MINISTER FOR RACING.

Otago Witness, Issue 2301, 7 April 1898, Page 35

A SPEECH BY THE MINISTER FOR RACING.

(Fhom Oue Own Correspondent.) Auckland, March 29,

While it is recognised that the Hon. Mr Carroll finds his duty of distributing totalisator

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permits to the satisfaction of all racing bodies in the colony no sinecure, it would yet seem that the office has its bright side, if the regal manner in which " the Hon. Jimmy " has been entertained and feted by racing bodies in Auckland during his short stay here may be taken as any criterion. While it is generally conceded that the metropolitan body (the A.R.0.) have merely acted as true sportsmen should, and extended the right hand of good-fellowship out of courtesy, there are those rude enough to suggest that the minor club?, who have also taken a hand in the deal, have had an eye to next year's permits. If this be true, then they must have received a rude shock last evening when the Colonial Secretary, in reply to the toast of his health at a dinner tendered him by the trotting club, said that while he reciprocated the kindly feelings expressed towards him by those present he might say that so far as the issuing of totalisator permits was concerned the matter of good fellowship would not in this respect advance the claims of any club one iota. Racing club 3 t hould endeavour to purify racing so that they could guarantee to the public that no immorality existed in connection with their meetings. It was a duty that they owed the people to endeavour to eradicate the faults and blemishes of the past. This could only be done by making a careful selection of the stewards — only electing those who posseted the true instincts of a sportsman, and ■who would endeavour to keep racing pure. Trotting was on the wane in New Zealand, and they had in many instances to trust to the inclusion of the illegitimate element — he referred to pony races — to maintain the popularity of meetings held under the auspices of trotting clubs. Canterbury, where they bred trotbers and had things upon a better foobiDg, was perhaps an exception. Ttotting clubs, however, should not arrange their programmes so that trotting events were really subservientto pony-racing. It would be better, too, if they adopted the American principle of having class-trotting, which would, he thought, prevent the repreheosible practice of " ringing-in," or ab least would minimise evils that at present exist throughout the whole colony.