RINGING-IN

Hokitika Guardian, 16 July 1929, Page 5

RINGING-IN

CHARGES BEING HEARD.: (By Telegraph-Press Association),.. \ 1 CHRISTCHURCH, July 16. The hearing of a case of alleged “ringing in” in which Leslie Holland, aged 28, a horse trainer, of Invercargill, and Samuel Bates, aged 36, a horse trainer of Orari, are concerned:, began this mbrning. original charge concerned an alleged Attempted fraud • at Canterbury -Park /(Trotting meeting on June 3rd, jjy representing that the trotting horse “Thorpe was identical with Bruce. Seven other charges wel’b preferred of alleged ringing in at Ash burton?‘.'Gore, Winton, Invercargill, 1 and Oainaru meetings. ' . .. *vs ;. Two other men Thomas Dowler,. a saddler, and William . Miller, ..qliap, Kerr, were added to the accused but the 1 police stated stated Miller had not yet been arrested. Chief Detective Carroll said that a man named E. J. Smith advertised the horse Bruce for sale in January, 1928. A man named Miller bought it for £IOO. His signature was witnessed by the mother of the accused. “ From then on Bruce disappeared,” said the Chief Detective, “ but a little after that Bates secured registration of Imperial Thorpe, which was trained by; Holland. Sometiriies Holland rode it and sometimes Bates. Imperial Thorpe was seven times in the money and it is in respect of these occasions that the prosecutions are laid. The stake money secured was over £4OO. Doubt was raised in the minds of the stewards, and the horse was identified as Bruce and impounded. Bruce was a very fast horse. It’s time for a mile was 2min. llsec. Imperial Thorpe was represented to he a maiden and was given much easier handicaps than would have been given to Bruce. That is probably why it won so much. The accused Dowler belonged to Timaru. Evidence identifying Imperial Thorpe with Bruce was given by E. J. Smith, a former part owner of Bruce, who described the sale to a man calling himself Miller, and identified the horse in the yard as Bruce. Another witness also identified the horse.