TWO HANDICAPPERS

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 69, 13 June 1927, Page 6

TWO HANDICAPPERS

SYDNEY MOVE OFFICIALS TO BE ELECTED? It is possible that in the near future Tattersall’s Club and City Tattersall’s will be tested on the advisability of having a new handicapper, so that, while Fred Wilson will handicap for the A.J.C.’s 15 days, the other six days of Randwick will provide variety in the matter of weight adjustments, comments a Sydney writer. A deputation may soon wait on the clubs concerned, and a noval suggestion has been put forward in the matter. A prominent member of one of the clubs is responsible for this suggestion. He holds that if an owner is dissatisfied with the weight given by a handicapper at Randwick, he should not be eternally under this supposed disadvantage. The appointment of a second handicapper by the other clubs that use Randwick wquld give him the chance of running there under the adjustments of another handicapper. TO BE ELECTED Consequently, it is his proposal that both Tattersall’s and City Tattersall’s should have a handicapper to stand for election each year, and members elect that official just as they elect a treasurer, an auditor, or a committeeman. As many of the members of both clubs are owners and trainers, the scheme might prove a success. But, of course, even under this plan, the idea of variety at Randwick might not be carried out, Tor members might choose Mr. Wilson in preference to others, and thus the position would remain as before, with one handicapper controlling all weights for Randwick and Warwick Farm. The idea that two handicapped would make a vast difference in weights may not be borne out by actual fact, for in all cities where there are more than one, it is striking how close the figures remain. Only in isolated instances is there any disparity. Some owners and trainers of Sydney are keen to see the experiment tried. Whether the clubs concerned will accede to the reqLiest remains to be seen. In years gone by, when applications were called for by these clubs, and the response was numerous, it was significant that Mr. Fred Wilson was still chosen as handicapper by both.