Feilding Jockey Club

Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 47, 22 April 1884, Page 2

Feilding Jockey Club

A meeting of the Stewards waihelci, at the Empire Hotel on Saturday evening*" A letter was read from Mr D. Scott applying for a re-hearing of the- case re the disqualification of Ahua. : ' ;: It was resolved, That the application be not granted. The matter of the Gnndagai-Sundown fiasco was then considered, and a number of witnesses examined, ultimately.' .-^"i • A resolution was passed to the folto,w ft < ing effect, "That in the opinion ot ;j|e Stewards tbe owner of Sunddwd'is blameless in the matter of the swindld'ftf connection with the Hack Hutdle mcsp A second resolution was.passedii^That' Tom Wood be warned off tne course, and that he be not allowed to run, ride, or train any horse on the Feilding Jockey Club course for ever, for corrupt prac? k tices in connection with running a ndrsis named Gundagni at their mte ! * meeting, and that the Wanganui Jockey* Club be asked to endorse the same." Two men named Atkins and Johnston who entered horses for the Hack Hurdle Kace, were found to be involved in 'the fraud^and were directed to be summoned by the Secretary to attend a meeting to be held on Saturday, the 3rd of May, to give them an opportunity of clearing themselves. - Two Palmerston men, whose names it. is not necesxniy to mention, are also to be summoned io attend, that they may explain their connection with the race.