N.Z. RACING CONFERENCE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXI, Issue 19059, 11 July 1924, Page 5

N.Z. RACING CONFERENCE

(Pct Press Association) WELLINGTON, July IQ. ’ The following remit was carried.—< That subject to specific penalties by these rules provided, in the case of certain specific .offences, the stewards may punish at their discretion any official, trainer, jockey or other person subject to their control guilty of any miscon duct, or breach of duty by a fine not exceeding 50»sovs., or by suspension from acting, training, or riding. The president moved (at the request of the Licensing Committee) that if a handicapper cannot be present at a race meeting for which he is appointed handicapper, the stewards, or commit* tee, shall appoint a deputy or assistant* handicapper. No licensed trainer shall be appointed handicapper, nor shall any paid official of the club other than the duly-appointed handicapper frame the handicaps for such club. This was carried.

A motion by Auckland that six persons should be elected annually to constitute a stipendiary stewards* confer* encc committee was carried, as was another that in all matters in which, bj the rules, powers and discretions wers vested in the president, he might confer with tho committee before taking any action. A Dunedin remit “That In no ca«e should the levy paid by any club be less than three guineas for each day’a racing,” was carried. The president’s motion “That three remits dealing with the amount of stakes should be held over till next conference,” was carried.