ACCEPTORS FOR SATURDAY

Southland Times, Issue 24422, 30 April 1941, Page 9

ACCEPTORS FOR SATURDAY

SOUTHLAND WINTER MEETING

Excellent acceptances have been received for the winter meeting of the Southland Racing Club at Invercargill on Saturday. The trotting events have attracted big fields and the programme gives an average of 10 horses a race. Following are the entries: — THE SOUTHLAND HURDLES. £155. One mile and a-half.

THE TREVATHAN CASE

ASSOCIATION’S ACTION CRITICIZED

The New Zealand Trotting Association was responsible for an astonishing action associated with the awarding of the stake money in the Telegraph Trot at the Gore Racing Club’s summer meeting, comments The Mataura Ensign. The happenings in that race are well known to the racing public. Through Trevathan being restive at the start and breasting the tape, the barrier on the limit mark was broken and the front horses moved off to a false start. All but four pulled out at the starter’s call, and these four persisted and completed the course. The official position was clear. Once the horses leave the birdcage they are in the hands of the starter. The starter having ruled “no start,” the trotting stipendiary steward, official representative of the New Zealand Trotting Association present at the meeting, ordered the four horses back to the start to complete the race. The facts were made clear at the time, so cleai- that the stipendiary steward did not even feel called upon to ask for any official inquiry into the happening on the spot. About a fortnight after the meeting F. Johnson, owner of Trevathan, lodged an objection with the Gore club against the awarding of the stake money in the event, holding that the race between the four horses following the false start had been a true race. The stewards of the club considered the objection, but held that under the Rules of Trotting the objection had not been lodged within reasonable time. Against this decision Johnson appealed to the New Zealand Trotting Association, with the astonishing result, advised to the Gore club through the Press, that the association had ruled that the stake money should be paid out to the horses which finished in the stake-earning places from the false start.

The association’s action appears quite out of order. It has carried the matter past the point of appeal and made its decision on a question which has not been the subject of inquiry by the Gore club. The controlling body of the trotting spbrt has come in for criticism on several occasions of late, but the present comedy appears to transcend anything yet. The matter is not likely to stand as it is. The officials of the Gore Racing Club are incensed, and the unfortunate part of the happening is that it is on the cards that the trotting sport in Southland may suffer. The Gore Racing Club provides eight trotting events in the season, carrying stake money to about £l2OO in a province strong in trotting horses but short of races. Past happenings culminating with the present incident have inclined quite a few of those in control of the club’s affairs to the view that a full programme of galloping events would prove to the club’s advantage.

OMITTED FROM ACCEPTANCES (P.A.) CHRISTCHURCH, April 29. Pearl Shell (scr) was omitted from the official acceptances for both trotting events at the Amberley Racing Club’s meeting and Malapert (scr) was omitted from the Howhai Handicap.

Araboa 11 8 Triple Cone 9 0 Flagman 10 8 Astral Flame 9 0 Kippen 9 2 Rosaleen Dhu 9 0 Viking 9 0 INVERCARGILL HARNESS TROT, £140. Class 3.43. One mile and a-half. Castle Blaney it yds bhd Flying Peggy it Jimmy Drusus (T.) 24 Lichfield it Sunny Dell 36 Lustrous It Bonnie Sandy 48 Recast it Jackie Coogan 48 Recharge It Nancy Guy 48 Red Wolf It Fransol 60 Scatterbrain it Brown Cloud 72 Sea Fortune it MYROSS HANDICAP, £125. Seven furlongs. Gnohill 9 0 Remembo 7 12 Ackemma 8 5 Anglo French 7 12 Gold Robe 8 4 Shantyman 7 11 Royal Chorus 8 2 Music Hail 7 Dolita 8 0 AWARUA HANDICAP. £250. One mile and a-quarter. Royal Lancer 10 2 Heidelberg 7 11 Wild Career 8 .) Southern Sail 7 0 Waitoru 8 4 Fidelis 7 0 Peony Rose 8 2 Half and Half 7 0 Aravane 8 0 SOUTHLAND STEEPLECHASE, £165. About twr miles and a-half. Spendthrift 11 2 Rifle Range 9 0 Trisox 10 . 1 Panara 9 0 Gay Boa 9 13 Polar Star 9 0 Pride o’ Central 9 3 OTATARA HARNESS TROT. £150. Class 3.39. One mile and a-half. Bonnie Sandy it Brown Cloud 21 Jackie Coogan it Glen Guy 36 Nancy Guy it June Tide 36 yds bhc Erin's Star 48 Aidus 12 Irish Guy 48 Fransol 12 Loyal Sun 48 Lochiel's Pride 12 Peter Young 48 Lunch Hour 12 Prince Charles 48 BLUFF HANDICAP. £125. One mile. Mosgiel 8 11 Ackemma 7 11 Gnohill 8 6 Royal Money 7 9 Aspire 8 6 Scotch Queen 7 7 Noko 8 5 Lucky Feather 8 3 PRESIDENT’S HANDICAP. £155. Seven furlongs. Araboa 9 0 Sailing Lady 8 0 Strip 8 13 Sea Lady 8 0 Waitoru 8 13 Gold Flight 7 6 Phalanx 8 'v Colonel Rouge 7 0 Boaform 8 2