AUCKLAND CUP PLACINGS ARE TO STAND

Grey River Argus, 4 February 1948, Page 6

AUCKLAND CUP PLACINGS ARE TO STAND

P.A. AUCKLAND, February 3. The appeal by J. H. Marshall, owner of the racehorse, Howe, to the Auckland District Committee against the decision of the Stewards of the Auckland Racing Club in altering the judge’s placings in the Auckland Cup at Ellerslie, on December 26, was dismissed to-day.

Howe was the first past the post by a neck from Balgowan, with King’s Ransom a nose away third. The stewards had held an inquiry into an allegation of' interference, and had altered the placings to: —Balgowan first, King’s Ransom second, and Howe third. It was against this alteration of the placings that Marshall appealed. At the conclusion of the hearing, the following resolution was passed unanimously: “That the Auckland District Committee, having considered the grounds of the appeal lodged by J. H. Marshall against the stewards of the Auckland Racing Club, who had placed the horse Howe, which was first past the post in the Auckland Cup, 1947, in third position, awarding the race to Balgowan, and placing the horse King’s Ransom second, in terms of Rule 285, and, having considered evidence taken at this inquiry by the Club’s Judicial Stewards, and having heard Mr Terry and Dr Mazengarb, as counsel for Marshall, and viewed moving films exhibited bv the appellant and by the Club respectively, unanimously agree that the horse Howe was guilty of causing interference with the horses Balgowan and King’s Ransom in terms of Rule 289 (2) "(B) of the Rules of Racing; and that the Stewards’ decision under Rule (2'85) (1) that the chances of Balgowan and King’s Ransom were interfered with, in the circumstances was a right and proper one. The Committee, therefore, decides that the appeal lodged by Marshall be dismissed, and I hat the action of the Stewards of the Auckland Racing Club be. and is hereby, confirmed”. Rule 285 (1) says that if, in the opinion of the stewards, a placed horse, or its rider, has interfered with the chances of any other horse, or horses, they may place sveh firstmentioned horse immediately after the horse or horses «o interfered with. Rule 289 (2) (B) states that a horse may be disqualified for a race if it jostles, or itself or its rider in any way interferes with another horse or the rider of another horse in a race, unless it is proved that such jostle or interference was caused by the fault of some other horse or rider, or that the horse or rider jostled or interfered with was partly at fault.