RACE CARDS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1658, 27 January 1913, Page 6

RACE CARDS.

(To the Editor.) the 'Wellington races 'aro' *P» preaching, I would' liko to ask' if you think it fair and honest to the publio to start horses that aro not ou the e,ird. This happened .on tho second- day of their Jast meeting, in the' first, and also in the .fifth race, one paving:,a dividend.. Tho same thing happened at.Marton. 'A. winner "\ra's returned paying * pood dindeiul whostT tiMflti was not in the* raw bobk, neither' had ho accepted. If metropolitan clubs aw gointt io allow'this sort of thing, why . publish. any race books at 'all. Wo will then hare no books or bookies, • only the totr—a moichinft that feeds itself automatically controlled by the ring.—l [The statements made in regard to the welli'ngtdh 'mMtihg are.not quite in ac. oordanco with fact. Dannton, uhosenamv wai not printed in tho official card, started 'iir the openinp race on the second day' and paid a. dividend, but no s horM started ip the fifth race other than thces whoso names were printed on the card. The potion was that Dauntoli's, owne\ accepted before the meeting for all racr* for winch Daunton had been entered, and actually paid the money for all engage, monts. Through an bversighlv Daunton'e niuuo was omitted from tho book; but tho club had 110 option' but to allow tho horsa to start.J