PRINCE HUMPHREY CASE

Taranaki Daily News, 17 July 1929, Page 11

PRINCE HUMPHREY CASE

HIS IDENTITY ESTABLISHED REPORT TO THE AJ.C. COMMITTEE. REASONS FOR THE CONFUSION. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Australian Press Association. Received July 10, 11.45 p.m. Sydney, July 16. An investigation by Mr. C. Yuille, registrar of racehorses, into the identity of Prince Humphrey has established the fact that he is a bay gelding, three years old, by Duke Humphrey (imp.) from Princess Hazel (imp.). He is branded B under an inverted V on the near shoulder and 5 over 136, now almost invisible, on the near thigh. He is a bay with black points. The other horse whose brands were compared was Cragsman, which Mr. Yuille finds is a bay gelding, three years old, by Duke Humphrey from Shepherd Princess. He is branded B under an inverted V near the shoulder and 5 over 144 near the thigh, and has a large star, streak and blaze over the left nostril. Both fore posterns are broken white, and both hind pasterns broken white. Mr. Yuille adds that the evidence indicates that the confusion has arisen over the names of the respective dams rather than that of horses had been confused by any similarity of appearance. The reason may have been because the full brands of the two horses were omitted from the catalogue of the Woodlands disposal sale. Mr. Yuille remarks that had the secretary of the New Zealand Racing Conference checked the applications for registration of the two horses, or had each applicant checked his own application for registration at the time with the registrar certificates, the error would then have been apparent. The Australian Jockey Club committee to-day approved of the registrar’s report and it was decided to call upon Mr. Maclndoe, the ■ owner of Prince Humphrey, to register Prince Humphrey and amend 'his nomination of that horse for the Epsom, Metropolitan and Warwick Farm Spring Handicap, paying £1 fine in each case; otherwise the entries will be declared invalid. He is called upon to pay the costs of the inquiry into the horse’s identity. The A.J.C. committee also held the New Zealand horse Star God ineligible to take part in the Epsom, Metropolitan and Warwick Farm Spring Handicaps. The rules provide that a horse outside the Commonwealth can be entered without prior registration, but as Star God happened to be in Sydney when nominated the horse should have been registered beforehand. o