RULES OF RACING

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19373, 10 July 1937, Page 7

RULES OF RACING

VARIOUS AMENDMENTS DEFINITION OF HACK BACK TO 7st. MINIMUM (Pur Press Association.) WELLINGTON, last night. In future the definition of a hack will be a horse that has not, at any time prior to the time of entry for a flat race, hurdle race or steeplechase, won a race of a value of £250 or more to the winner, and such races of an aggregate of £SOO or more to the winner, according to a remit passed at the annual meeting of delegates to the New Zealand Racing Conference. Mr.. J. S. McLeod presided. The recommendation, passed at the last conference for a 7st. 71b minimum in the flat races was rescinded, the rule reverting to the 7.0 minimum. Rule 260 was altered to read that every apprentice jockey who has not ridden 30 winners shall be entitled to claim an allowance which shall be 51b in the case of one who lias ridden more than 10 winners but not more than 20 winners, and 31b in the case of one who has ridden 20 but not more than 30 winners. By 39 votes to 11 the conference resolved that every starter shall marshall the horses in every fiat race as nearly as possible in a straight line so that the race shall commence from a standing start.

Relaxation in Country The executive committee’s proposal, “That with a view to making country life more attractive to young men and women and also to create interest in the breeding of horses and in riding as a health-giving exercise, the New Zealand Racing Conference hereby resolves that in horse races run at sports club meetings, in which racehorses owned, trained and ridden by persons other than licensed trainers, jockeys, apprentice jockeys, stablemen and persons employed in or about the management, training, riding or care of registered horses, such horses need not be registered nor their riders-qualified to ride under the rules of racing before being eligible to be entered or to start in any race lo be run at any such sports club meeting,” was carried.

The following officers were elected for the ensuing year: President, Mr. J. S. McLeod; vice-president, Mr. T. 11. Lowry; executive committee,’Messrs L. W. Nelson, Auckland, D. E. Wanklyn, Canterbury, A. C. Hanlon, Dunedin, T. E. Coates, Greymouth, G. D. Beatson, Hawke’s ' Bay, W. T. I-lazlett, Invercargill, the Hon. J. McLeod, Taranaki, J. H. Perrett, Wanganui, C. W. Tringham, Wellington.