APPEAL DECISION
SUSPENSION REDUCED The Wellington District Committee yesterday heard the appeal lodged by J. H. Jefferd on behalf of the apprentice jockey R. G. Howell, against the two, months’ suspension imposed on Howell by the judicial committee of the Wellington Racing Club on January IS. The ground for the suspension was careless riding of the horse Rakahanga in the Telegraph Handicap on the first day of the club’s January meeting. The district committee’s decision was that the action of the judicial committee be confirmed, but that the penalty imposed was, in the opinion of the committee, too severe, and that it be reduced to suspension for one month from January 18, 1941. The district committee added a rider to its verdict expressing io Jefferd the opinion that Rakahanga was not a fit horse lo be handled by an apprentice and that in future an experienced horseman should be employed. R. G. Howell has appealed to the New Zealand Racing Conference against the verdict of the Wellington District Committee.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 32, 7 February 1941, Page 8
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169APPEAL DECISION Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 32, 7 February 1941, Page 8
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