THE V.R.C. HANDICAPPER.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 105, 26 February 1891, Page 4

THE V.R.C. HANDICAPPER.

Mr E.-. T. Barnard, handieapper to 'ihe Victoria Racing Club, has tendered r his resignation, and the Committee ■of the club have decided to ask him to remain in office until after' the l autumn meeting. ' l Mr Barnard consented to do so, • but it is understood that his resignation will take'"Bffe'ct immediately ' afterwards. Tae retirement of 'the veteran handi- • cap^effWthe Victorian Kabing Club . creaWs"' another gap- in the ranks of the old-time racing men/ Since 1869, :in which' J 'year 'he"' was appointed by -the chief racing club of Victoria,* Mr .Barnard lias practically controlled the whole facing field of- the colony.' The imere fact' that v he' has' handicapped ;no less ban twelve ' Melbourne Cups, ito say nothing of scores of races of jlesser note, at once marks him out .among the principal figures in tbe of-racing men; to whose efforts rthe present gratifying state' of the .turf iv Victoria,' 1 and; indeed, in Aus--"tralia, is due. Mr 1 Barnard's experi- . «nee of the turf dates ' back to a vei y -early period. In v an experience of twenty-one ' years' ' Mr ' 'Barnard can take bis ''hearers back to ' the' day when the Melbourne Cup was a stake of £S'OOJ- and was still considered trie* .great event of the ' racing year. The early^ triumphs' of Veno and the two - conaecutive /dead heats 'of Flying Dutchman and Saladin are memories .almost as fresh to him as the victory • of Martini- Henry, or the final success •of another son of Musket in 1890, "Carbine's year. — Dunedin Star. The results 'of ' the Newmarket Handicap, Australian Cup and Champion Stakes, to be run on Saturday Tuesday arid Thursday next will be posted outside tbe Star Office- immediately after receipt.