"RINGER” DISQUALIFIED

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 196, 20 August 1934, Page 4

"RINGER” DISQUALIFIED

OWNER AND HORSE. ARREST FOLLOWS. ADELAIDE, Aug. 18. C. Prince, owner-trainer of a horse called Bedlock, and the horse itself were disqualified for life by the South Australian Jockey Club stewards. As he left the inquiry room, Prince was arrested by detectives and later charged with having obtained stake money at Murray Bridge by falsely pretending that a certain horse was Redlock. The horse was impounded. It is alleged that the horse which won the race was Erbie. The real Redlock is bow at Malmsbury, Victoria. Allegations that the horse called •'Bedlock’’ was in reality Erbie, who has been thrice disqualified for life for being a "ring-in,” were made by the nolice prosecutor in the Central Court, when C. Prince was remanded on bail on a charge of having obtained money from the Murray Bridge Racing Club by false pretences. rate at Holbrook in October, 1933. was won by a gelding Duke Bombita. which, it was alleged, was identical with Erbie, a successful galloper on gvdnev courses- Life disqualifications were * imposed upon four interested parties as well as upon’the horses Duke Bombita (a bay gelding by Bombita from Cueini) and Erbie (a brown geldir.g by Bombita from Cirvo). One of the parties©, a trainer, subsequently appealed successully against his disqualification. The life disqualification of two others and of the horses, was, however, not interfered with