To the Sporting Editor, Observer.

Observer, Volume X, Issue 621, 22 November 1890, Page 15

To the Sporting Editor, Observer.

Sir, — Finding that the columns of your valuable journal are always open to expose vice and fraud, may I call your attention, and through you the public at large, to the unwarrantable conduct of the secretary of the Auckland Eacing Club, in scratching The Baron until the public had placed their money on other horses, and then at the last moment re-entering The Baron. What doe 3 such conduct mean ? Are the races to be jockeyed at the instance of this gentleman ? On an English or Australian racecourse, such conduct would black-ball Mm for ever. I trust you will not flinch t© root out this matter to the bottom. It is such manipulation of the starting and scratching of horses that damns the races, and makes in the miDd of the public the fact that the laces are for the benefit of individuals and not the public generally. At all events, such conduct as scratching The Baron at the late race-meeting, if done designedly and not by mistake, is not only unEnglish, and against the Rules of the Turf, but is a gigantic Bwindle on the public at large, which is deserving of the severest censure and exposure. —I am, sir, A Well Wisher of the Torf. Auckland, 14th Nov., 1990.