HORSE IMPOUNDED.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17246, 12 January 1924, Page 1

HORSE IMPOUNDED.

! THE KINGSDALE CASE. STATEMENT BY OWNER. i - si Opecial to the “ Star.”) DUNEDIN, January 11. The local detective force has ryot-hing fresh to record as regards the ringing-in of Willie Lincoln as Loolr Out at the Wyndhara and Invercargill summer meetings- The detectives are now awaiting the result of inquiries at Invercargill regarding the identification of certain persons said to have been associated with the horse when it ran at the southern meetings. Correa* poudence is also awaited from the Nenr Zealand Trotting Association. The detective force is concentrating on the Willie Lincoln-Look Out case in' the meantime. The allegations concerning Kingsdale, winner of the Balfour Trot Handicap at Gore on October 30 last, will then be investigated. Itshould prove of interest to reprint the account of this race as published in the “Otago Daily Times” of October 2‘J:— BALFOUR TROT HANDICAP. Of 135 sovs. One mile. '1 IC—W . Cameron’s b g Kingsdale, hi by King Daphie—Lauderdale mare. 6yrs, scr (Owner) f I—T- Cosgrove’s St Thomas, scr ■ - (J. Cosgrove) 3 4 —Samson's Glen Wilkes. 12yds (L. Lloyd/ "I Also started : 2 Alpha Bingen scr; 5 Aberfeigh scr. 19 Dandy DragoiU scr, IS Jessie Scott scr, 9 Oakland scr, Rothstar scr. 16 Railway Chimes scr, 11 Rosedale scr, 6 Somnus scr. 12 Kelvin Cakes 12yds. 13 Dark Rosine 24vd». 3 Landlord 24yds. 15 Quo Vadis 24ycbi 7 Stella Mans 24yds. 3 7 Miss Adonic 36yds. 19 First Chimes 48yds, 14 Quick match 48yds Stella Mans was slow to move off St Thomas led Somnus along the back and Kingsdale moved into third St Thomas led Kingsdale into straight, where the latter came on nu won by two lengths. Glen Wilkes w« ° lengths away, followed by Dark Ro sine, Aberfeigh and Landlady. Tim* 9 1 2 4 5 24 15se< ' 2min 24 2 sse 2mil On Thursday afternoon the Trottig£ Association ordered that. KiugaM should be impounded The horse wai therefore taken over from Mr Camera by the police and placed in Mr ti Grant’s stables. Aesterday morning an 1 Otago Daib Times ” reporter saw Mr Cameron. th owner of Kingsdale, and asked him ? he were prepared to make anv state ment. Mr Cameron, who is 'quite i young man, and is employed by Mesac Richards 8r03.. skin'merchants, sail that he was. Mr Cameron was verv candid in hi statements. He said that he had pat chased the horse from Mr Donellv, q bander Central Otago He owned tl horse. He trained him. and he had 11 first ride in a race on him in the B*j tour Trot. He onl v caught bis fi3 ln the straight, and his horse was 3 out at- the finish. Asked if it were true that he fid rushed his horse off the course at t« conclusion of the race. Mr Pnnirjl| said that he had not. and that, he h* ridden away from the course with M Cecil Hadneld He had only £3 his horse He had entered his -hosi tor the trot on the second dav of tft meeting, but he had hit himself * ~aoly in his first race that he not. start- him. He had no idea tha there was a suspicion regarding tfi performances of his horse until fi heard rumours on his return to Dim Ovain. He had therefore written to th secretary of the Gore Racing Club dfij informed him that he was prepared t> give full particulars regarding |] horse, but he had never received an reply. He had also agreed to alloi Mr J. Samson, the representative *' sen ’ Zealand Trotting Association to see the horse, and had brought hi? to Dunedin, but Mr Samson had iw come to look him over. He had nc thing to hide regarding his horse. ; The reporter then asked Mr CamerS w had not claimed the stake froi the Gore Racing Club. Mr Oath*** replied that it was for the son that Mr Samson had mforrtaed hii that the club would not pav /out th stake while there was anv suspicion.! to the record of his horse The reporter then suggested to Jfl Cameron that lie should makeian. jJ davit to the police on the lines* of 13 statement. 1 Mr Cameron replied that (be ha done this. He had made an l*ffida*i to the police to the effect that! King! dale, which had won the race *t Go*4 ” as the horse be had deliverer! to th Trotting Association on the prevjmj day and that he was not a ‘«\ring-iu_ He had a clear conscience oVer tl whole business, and he now jbropqS to make a claim on the Gore\Raci3 Club for the stake. \ * A Dunedin punter evidently had a idea that. Kingsdale was a prettv goq horse There was only £126 iOs o Kingsdale in the Balfour Trot, and c this amount the Dunedin punter hel 100 one-pound tickets. Ho therefor j lifted nearly £I2OO off the j The punter operated with a betinp j book and received a cheque for tl I amount a day or two later. It need not- be added that neithc L he Gore Racing Club nor the Nej . Zealand Trotting Association has bee ! very diligent or fair to both the own i or the cereral public in tracing t| ; career of Kingsdale. The race t*o place on October 20. and it has not v< been discovered whether an unjui j stigma has been placed on Mr Can ; eron.