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HANDICAPS IN N.Z. (By Telegraph—Per Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, May 7. The Committee of the New Zealand Trotting Board reported to-night on the handicapping ol horses imported from Australia. The Committee recommended that, pending some agreement on the point between the New Zealand and Australian controlling bodies, the liandicappers should he recommended to handicap horses imported from Australia as having run two seconds for a mile or mile and a-qnarter. three seconds !)>r a mile and u-half, and lour seconds tor two miles faster than their Australian iecords for these distances respectively show. It was suggested that the main reasons for the success of the recent im,inflations from Australia were that the New Zealand tracks were faster, and that insufficient particulars were supplied with the list of Iho Australian perlormers. The report: was adopted, and it was decided to send it. to the liandicappers. It was also decided to renew the eflojis to obtain reciprocal arrangements with tnc Australian States in regard t<> the handicapping of New Zealand and Australian horses.
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Hokitika Guardian, 8 May 1929, Page 6
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