The Late Race Meeting

Southland Times, Issue 90124, 25 January 1886, Page 3

The Late Race Meeting

TO THE BPITOJt, , BIB,— I see by the News of Saturday sthat in order " to soothe the savagebreast' 1 of the public assembled, a court martial was held by the itewardi of the Bacing Ciub to make ' enquiries as to the lutinirig of Violia apoa - the previous day, which ea'quiry, as might hate been expected, ended ia bunkuoi. , My own opinion about - ih-j affair is that tbe ' public dissatisfaction expressed was more oq - account of the manner in .which that same »ace'(the Plying Handicap) ba>i been got oft , , f or - as an onlooker from the stand* I caa most positively assert, that the state* ment openly' made to the stewards by Messrs Littlewort, owner of Vanderdecken, and T. B. White,- as to ibe ttrurs fry not > having been lowered until Violin and : Soli* - tude and one or two others were at any rate over Ode hundred jarde oa. their journey was txue } Vanderdecken not, aiaitian uut'.l it was lowered, and H*btia fc s,tbe dan c ou« torse in * /the race,Ueft at the post.- - tfo*, as this race -ir only oae of- six t urJoogs, of c jurse a fair •tart is of the greatest import a jce, aud any- ' thing resembling m.laixnee» should bj con» , * demned* I'he thought occurred xo me, upon looking through' Jhe names of the otfwials

rather an Anqmalons position to be placed in, viz , that of bandicapper as well as etarter; to the meeting. What, would they say to such a state of hifftir* the other side of the water ? A6k Gcoige Watson,— l »m, &c, - ; -CmjOOKEB