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New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume IV, Issue 198, 10 May 1894, Page 4

The name of Malabar appears in the list for the Winter Steeplechase Meeting of the A.R.C. ,and we are tempted to ask the Auckland Racing Club why is thishorse allowed to nominate for a race meeting held under their j urisdiction. Malabar has frequently raced under the rules of the North Auckland Racing Association —an institution which receives no recognition from the Auckland Racing Club—and has consequently had the ban of disqualification placed upon him. Now suddenly this bar is removed, no one knows why. AU that the A.R.O. say about it is that the disqualification was placed on the horse .. once, and that it has since been removed, but as for a reason, they have none to advance. Since Malabar was disqualified he has proved himself to be a good animal, and he has changed hands. But whether this has had any thing to do with the removal of his disqualification we are not in a position to say. If this is the sort of vacillating policy which the A.R.C. intend to follow they will gain little respect. Judging by the Malabar case, an owner need not .be very, much put out if his horse is disqualified, for without any mitigating causes, his disqualification may be removed any day. And in buying a disqualified horse an owner may be pardoned if he calculates upon the A.R.O. looking upon the new ownership as a reason why the ban should be removed. There is positively no valid reason why the embargo upon Malabar should have been removed* = in taking the same off the A.R.O. have laid themselves open to a charge of in- - consistency and deplorable weakness.. They may have an excuse (which is not apparent) for their action. We hope they have.