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New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume IV, Issue 205, 28 June 1894, Page 5

The barring on the totalisator finds a place on the country delegates’ list, and he sums up the position in the following terse motion, “No horse shall be barred on the totalisator.” And the power to do so should certainly be taken away from stewards or owner. Let us take the barring of St. Hippo for the Derby of 1893 and see what was possible. But before doing so let us state we have not the slightest desire in what we are about to say to make the slightest insinuation respecting anyone. We are merely putting forward a supposititious case and showing what might be done. St. Hippo was a moral for that Derby. His connections must have known that much respecting the colt, and they must also have known that Brown Alice (an occupant of the same stable, mark you), judged through her trials with St. Hippo, was the mistress of the others. The "race proved that, for the records of the event show that St. Hippo won in a hand canter and that Brown* Alice won just as easily from the rest of the opposition. Now she paid dividends of 18s and 9s. Knowing what two representatives he had in the race, what sort of an inducement was there for St. Hippo’s owner to bar him, when he could win the stake with him and receive a most respectable dividend from Brown Alice. St. Hippo would have only paid a matter of shillings. Comment is needless. Barring should be done away with, and we hope Mr Alison’s motion will receive the attention it deserves. His last motion, “ Thit all meetings of conferences be open to the press ” also receives our unqualified approval. What right have the delegates to hold their meetings in the existing hole in the corner, Star Chamber fashion. It is an insult to the racing bodies and to the club represented not to give them any opportunity of learning what were the arguments used for or against a proposition. Mr Alison’s motions are admirably conceived, and we wish them every luck.