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New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume IV, Issue 204, 21 June 1894, Page 4

Another matter is the “barring” of horses on the totalisator. When St. Hippo was barred for the Great Northern Derby we took occasion to the justice of the club in doing so. The colt’s owner of course acquiesced, but even then there is no rule of racing which gives power to stewards to bar a horse in this arbitrary manner. Then there was the barring of Liberator by the Reefton Club. As we once before pointed out, it is a question where this sort of thing is going to end. An owner may know the horse who can run second and pay a fair dividend. All he has to do is to get his horse barred, win the stake, and back the second horse. Or stewards might take it into their heads to bar a horse for private reasons of their own. It was surely never contemplated for a moment under the Rules of Racing that this barring of a horse should he allowed.