GHAY'S NEXT STEPS

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 75, 30 March 1933, Page 8

GHAY'S NEXT STEPS

RECOVERY OF LICENCE

Following the cancellation of his wovisional trainer'a licence by tha Licensins Committee of the New 'Zealand ttacing Conference, Hector Gray nrust now approach the Conference by two steps, and lie must be successful at each before he may resume training operations. At present, not only is lie unable to take auy part in the training of horses," but he canliot even go on a racecourse. All racing and trotting clubs in the Dominion have adopted the special regulations made under section 33 of the Gaining Act, 190S, which, among other things, provide:— The following persons shall be and are hereby excluded from the racecourse while the same is used or occupied by the Club tor a race meeting, namely: persons convicted of assault \Vhile Gray was.under the subsequently proved erroneously imposed life disqualiiication he was involved in an incident, more or less a direct consequence of the iingrounded verdicts then standing against Mm, which led to his being convicted of assault, and this cemviction, unless and until exemption is granted, automatically prevents his going on to any racecourse in the Dominion. To obtain relief from these regulations he must now apply to a combined committee of the Kacing and Trotting Conferences for. special excjipition. • . .- ■'' ■ This is the first step, that Gray "must take, and if he is successful he will have regained the right of going cm to racecourses. . ~ Following this step Gray must then apply again'in the ordinary way for a trainer's (or jockey's) licence. That is. to Bay, he must make application to the distiict committee of the district in which lie resides, and such committee, after consideration, will forward his application,, together with its recommendation (if any), to the secretary of the Conference for final consideration by the liJcensinj? Committee of the Conference. The Licensing Committee, under, rule SI of the Rules of Racing, has absolute discretion in the matter of granting or. refusing to grant a licence, and if it declines to grant a. licence it need not assign any reason for so acting. There is, however, a right of appeal to the Conference-ynder rule 102 agmnst any such decision, etc., pf the Licensing Committee-