SPORTING.
(Per Press Association.) v CHRISTCHUROH, this day. A Bpefiial meeting of the committee of the Canterbury Jockey Club was held yesterday to consider the Hon. J. I>. Ormond s coinnlaint against the handiqapping of his hordes, at the club's autumn meeting. The folio wing resolution was unanimously carried : 'That alter carefully considering the reason* furnished by Mr Henrys as to the weights allotted to Bollin m the Great • Autumn Handicap and the Final Handicap, the committee accept his explanation as entirely satisfactory, and considers that it entirely disproves Mr t>rmond's charges of incompetence or unfair treatment, and were further evidence necessary that Mr Henrys' judgment' was right, it is afforded by 4he ft performances of Bolhn at Hastings." The committee also considerMr Ormond's complaint of Mi handicapping of Woodhey and Diamond Star, with the result that Mr Henry's explanation was accepted as perfectly satisfactory. _
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 11854, 19 May 1909, Page 3
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