THE LATE RACE MEETING.

Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1145, 30 March 1872, Page 2

THE LATE RACE MEETING.

[to the editob.]Sik — Having read a letter in your issue of the 22nd iust., signed R. Richardson, [ in which that gentleman is greatly surprised at the remarks made by me on the Handicap and other races, I think Mr Richardson might with a very good grace have left out the words " and other races." Remarking on the Greymouth Jockey Club Handicap, he says that 1 have not been in any way explicit, especially when I did not name the horses that had their riders exchanged. It would be very much out of place for me to particularise parties, but a look at the "correct card" would satisfy a,ny inquisitive person that changes did take place. Mr Richardson admits, in his letter, that if the Eagle had been better managed, and had not had an " accident at the turn," he would most likely have been differently placed at the finish. In this particular I agree exactly with Mr Richardson. I presume the accident referred to is one of those peculiar misfortunes attending horse racing in which no bones are broken, and generally end in aprotest. When I take into consideration the accident at the turn, so well described in Mr Richardson's letter, I come to the conclusion that if Mr Richardson had paid more attention to Peeress and les3 to Black Eagle, that they would have passed the post in the following order, viz. :— Peeress, 1 ; Black Eagle, 2 ; Misfortune, 3. Mr Richardson, in justifying those gentlemen who handicapped the horses for the Gold Fields Handicap, wants to know if I was aware that this race was half a. mile shorter than the other Handicap. I refer Mr Richardson to a letter of mine in your issue of the 15th inst., which will satisfy him that I was fully aware of the distances of the different events, and also that it might have been from want of knowing better than any other reason that the horses were haudicapped as they were. This being my last, I will finish by saying that, if any of the horsey men will explain how it was that the Peeress was not in as good a position at two miles in the Gold Fields as she was at the same distance in the Greymouth Jockey Club Handicap, they will oblige me, and at the samo time satisfy the public that everything was square at the late race meeting. I am, &c, ■The Rambler. Ahaura, March 25, 1872.