IMPORTANT REMIT

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1020, 10 July 1930, Page 13

IMPORTANT REMIT

PROTECTION OF BACKERS RULE UNALTERED Arising out of the Guy Bingen case At Invercargill and the Lord Haldane case at Thames, when the horses named won and were disqualified, but the decisions were subsequently reversed on appeal, two remits were presented to conference yesterday, proposing that in future cases the dividends should not be paid out until the appeals are heard. The remit to this effect from the Winton Club was defeated, and the other from the Thames Club was withdrawn. The argument against the remits was that the holding up of totalisator investments in such cases would seriously affect the tinnacial results of a meeting-, particularly in the case of small clubs, and that dividends should continue to be paid out according: to the decision of the club stewards. [The public were hopeful that the remits dealing - with this question, and previously dealt with in the The Sun, would have found favour with delegates at the conference. The defeat of the proposed alteration to Rule 425 leaves the punter in the same unsatisfactory position and at the mercy of officials who have power to decide a protest on the course, as occurred at Thames.—’ ‘Aba ydo s”]