A TASMANIAN INQUIRY

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 54, 1 September 1926, Page 7

A TASMANIAN INQUIRY

EVIDENCE OF SERIOUS MIS-

DEMEANOURS.

Por some little time past there haß been great stir in Hobart trotting circles concerning .the allegations of. questionable tactics amongst men prominently connected with the sport, and at the request of the ■Attorney-General, Mr. A. G. Ogilvie, the Tasmasian Trotting Association held an inquiry into statements published by.; a mainland journal in connection with allegations made against A. J. Gibson.and A. Foster by G. Watt, sen. The official .finding states that evidence was taken on the truth or otherwise of allegations.

;. (a) That, one official has on occasions asked riders to let him know when they were out to win, so that he could place money on their horses; (b) That' one of the stewards of the ■NorthallPark Trotting Club, A. Foster, apparently ; sat on an inquiry into the running of Mallee King on sth June last with his mind made up, and

(c) That for business reasons a certain official, who sat on the inquiry, could not possibly be a party to the disqualification .of certain trotting connections.

Such evidence was fully considered, iwhen memiers of ■ the association sitting on the inquiry unanimously decided upon a course of action, as a result of which • A.i J. Gibson will be called upon to show '.'cause at a meeting of the association to be held later, why he should not be removed from the position as official, namely, steward of the Northall Park Trotting Club.