CONDITIONS ALTERED.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 227, 25 September 1929, Page 15

CONDITIONS ALTERED.

METROPOLITAN T.C. SPRING

MEETING

The New Zealand Metropolitan Trot- | ting Club lias issued the programme for jits spring meeting to be held on November 12, 14, and 13, and the big prizemoney on offer should ensure big nominations. Experiences at the club's August meeting have been responsible ror several necessary alterations, and as now framed little fault can be found with the programme. At the August meeting there were several races in which the con- ' ditions read "for horses that can do 4.40 i and have not done or been handicapped to i do 4.33 or better," and as a result of this stipulation several horses, through putting up fast times, became ineligible for ■ events for which they had been nomi--1 mated later at the meeting. The conditions of these races new include the following: "For horses that can do 4.40 or 1 better, but are not assessed by the clubs handicapper at 4.33 to better."' Other new conditions are as follows: Horses haying an Australian record, but not a New Zealand record, shall be subject to a penalty of 2s for one mile and one and a-quarter miles, 3s for one mile and a-half, and 4s for two miles to their Australian' record. Assessed by the club s handicapper means "handicap declared by the club's handicapper for the race in question." In the event of a rehandicap placing a horse outside the limits of the race in which it has already been handicapped, it shall nevertheless be eligible to race in that event, but will be transferred to the correct class when next handicapped. Horses nominated for races for which they are assessed by the handicapper as ineligible will be trausfeiied to a race of similar distance for which tliev are eligible. There is still more responsibility placed on the shoulders of the handicapper, but the new idea seems an improvement, and should meet with general approval.