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New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume III, Issue 130, 19 January 1893, Page 8

Our Letter Box.

[We do not necessarily identify ourselves with the opinions expressed by our correspondents, though, at the same time, we gladly afford space to all communications on matters of public interest to the sporting community.—Ed. Sporting Review.]

THE PROTEST AT WARRENGATE.

(To the Editor Sporting Review.) Sik, —The protest at the races against Outer for the Final Handicap is one of the meanest and most unsportsmanlike actions that has ever yet been seen on a racecourse, and I can only think that the trainer of Eve must have been greatly influenced by the backers of Dr. Bennett’s mare in the machine, which would never have taken place if the Dr. had been present. Seeing the race as I did, after travelling through the immediate district I can assure you that the greatest dissatisfaction was universally felt at the result of the Stewards’ decision, and I fancy that a change of stewards would give decided satisfaction to the district in general. I travelled over forty miles the day after the races in question, and came across no man who was not annoyed at the way that the Stewards had given their decision in the case.

To mention the irregular way that things are done here; as regards the Electric Handicap I am led to believe that Slip, the winner, is partly owned by Mr Chapman, the starter, and I think it would have been more advisable for Mr Chapman to have handed over the flag to some disinterested party. A similar case, at the late V.R.C. (Melbourne) Spring Meeting occurred in the finish for the Oaks race between Trieste and Etra-Weenie, and the decision of the V.R.C. Stewards was that it could not affect the result of the race. I am, &c., A Sport.