PLACINGS AT RACES
-Press Association.)
Judge May Have Been Mistaken
(By Telegraph—
AUCKLAND, Last Night. Many patrons of the Auckland Trotting Club's meeting maintained ! that Our McKinney should have been j placed tbirdi in the Livarpbol Han- I dicap instead of Bonny Azure. After | the race Press representatives com- j municated witli Judge E. V. Suther- i land, but he said he could do nothing > as it was too late. - . This morning, the secretary oi" the club, Mr. A. G. Mabee, said that nothing cou'ld be done. The trotting rules ' provided that th'e judge liad five ! minutes in which to alter the placings. ! This was not done, and so he and Mr. Mabee gave the order for the dividends to be pa-id-out. Interviewed to-day the judge sgid that the colours were plastered with : mud, making it awkward to distinguish j them. Both he and the assistant- i timekeeper made Bonny Azure third It was not till the chairman of the Press gallery told him that Our McKin- | ney was third that he had any idea a i mistake had been made. "No-one is ! infallable," he said, "but the conditions were exceptional, and I might have mistaken the colours in the circumstances."
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 136, 25 June 1937, Page 15
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