Disqualification for Life.

Hastings Standard, Issue 3, 29 April 1896, Page 3

Disqualification for Life.

THE MARE "FIONA."

At a special meeting of the Stewards of the Hawke's Bay Metropolitan Trotting Club last evening, the following evidence was adduced as to the identity of the brown mare that trotted in the Maiden Saddle at Hastings on March 19th, under the name of " Clive

Statement by \\ . Change.—l bought the mare " Clive " after the March meeting from Mr Amos Clegg, who told me the real name of the mare was " Fiona " and not " Clive," and that under the name of " Fiona" she won a Mile Saddle Trot at Lancaster Park, and trotted the distance in 2min 55sec, that being her best performance, and I am quite sure that this is the mare that trotted in the Maiden Saddle at the Autumn Meeting at Hastings, on March 19th, under the name of " Clive." This mare has a scar or slit in the off top eyelid, and the mare is aged. I delivered her to James Campbell at Clive at 12.10 p.m. on Wednesday, April 22. I had no idea that this mare was other than " Clive" until after the meeting was over. Mr Clegg also told me that the mare was by Blackwood Abdallah. " The following correspondence was read: —

" The President and Committee of the Hawke's Bay Metropolitan Trotting Club. — " Dear Sirs, —At your request I went to West Give on Friday last to examine the mare ' dive ' that started in a Two Mile Maiden Saddle Trot at Hastings on March 19, 1896. The said mare was delivered to James Campbell on Wednesday, 22nd April, 1896, by William Orange, who informs me of the fact. I called on Mr James Campbell to show me the mare ' Clive,' which he absolutely declined to do. I am confident that the mare I saw W . Orange with, and which mare he said he purchased oft" Amos Clegg as the mare ' Fiona,' is the same that trotted in the Two Mile Maiden Saddle Trot at your meeting on March 19, 1896. — A. Elboi'rne, Handicapper." [Copy of telegram to A. J. Rattray, Esq., Trotting Club, Christchurch, April 24th.] •• Campbell ships to Evans, Lyttelton, per Tasmania, brown mare supposed to be ' Fionaj£ ran here in Maiden Saddle aart'tiyejßjfc. name of Amos ,Cl<?gg. Pleay. earner met, el&oibwl," ana *Hj)|pitity

proved. Mark scar on top eyelid; evidence posted; reply.— \V. I). Lieland, Trotting Club, Hastings." The reply was as follows : "Have examined mare on board Tasmania, and recognise her as ' Fiona.' —A. -I. Rattray, Lyttelton." The Stewards of the Ilawke's Bay Trotting Club unanimously resolved — " That Amos Clegg, nominator and rider, and the brown mare ' Fiona,' alias ' Olive,' be disqualified for ever, and that a copy of the evidence and this resolution be sent to Mr Clegg and the following Trotting Associations and Trotting Clubs : Dunedin, Christchurch, Wellington, Taranaki, Auckland, Palmerston North."