The Gundagai Affair.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 125, 22 April 1884, Page 3

The Gundagai Affair.

■1 • . . „,. A meeting of the stewards of the,.: "Stoilding Jockey -Cluß" was held at Bei : ve'a Hotel on^atfirday ; v The following resolutions were pas: a^^—" rphat m the opiuion of 11^. — gtewarda the owner of Sundown: is blameless in-iUe^natter of tho swindle m connection the Hack Hurjile ■Race." ■■■<:'.. '■■;■ t : v;, "That Toni.- Wood ri be wai*ned on. v the, course, an^ that he^onqt alpwed 1 to ran^iidei o^r Imiin any horsei on the FeUding Jockey Club couvse foVeyer,. for corrupt practices m connection with running ahorse named Gundagaiat thefrltftenieeting, arid ihat the Wanganui Jockey Club be asked to endorse. _ the same.r . 1"'...' ' „ . The meeting then adjourned till Saturday, the 3*d of jytay. ; _

The facts of the case, according; to tbe jfoi'ton papei*, are as follows :-f-A gentleman s at_ Palniei-Hton, nanSed Biker, owned a horse Sundown, wh|ich he was*anxioaß to dispose of: i; H.e »vas i Hadvwed hj aßiinUivictual % -nAined Moore' to ran him at the Feilding races, as if well lie 'cofiKl get'rfjg^od pricCj him/ 3;i He agreed io ctd4o if Moore' took aft the responsibility indtxtjenfe' = "of training and? ranning ; him. Somej- : time after from representations made, t^ Wood, another Palmerstoh man,' tW the horse wtiß' not Wing done jus- » tfe» to, it was token from ; ' Moore paid fttrt r iii' Wood's hands, Ton the* sara,e •> te>ms; and if the hoi'se- won €he race •">-' he was to get a. certain pried for it. Webd apparently knew some days^. '■> before the races that Charlie*' was gqing^ c^tp=r\itt«. the horse was brought over to Palmeratoh and was being Staler : nitherei J - 'However, h4 ■'■ took' Srindd^n to Feilding- the day before jthe races, and according to a statement, ' 'lie then gave up all idea of runnjing him, tin. the grounds' tnat he wojild • : have no •'• show " against Charlie, in'd ' it is gai^ that he turned t)W horse jfo'r'' the night into a r graßs"pa«Jdo'ck. Frjom -what followed, it appears -thaV jthe : '"^wners of ChirHe induced Wood! to 'j'-WQcftr thciin to- rdh Sundrfiirnj which they did under the name of 'Gundagai, ''' the"' same individual; 1 '& man : - named » : Jobristohrenteiiifg tyW Horses:^ <htry of Charlie (late Gundag^i) irtts ' .j>Brfectly. good, but there aeems liftlb l : ; tKat ; the J horse' €F«tMag&/; yas entered merely to- throw diiHia ilre ( eyes of the public, aM if Charlie (»aJcr f fiflleu 'they wo^'ld doubtless : hjiye ■'■*■' clHiraed the stakes on the othei* hojrtie. : 'the rieal owner of Siiridbwtf only lad-^ ' peared on -the^eontse jufM'befyte jthe' '■'■ nice started, atfd onen^aiiy he^ fopiid ! . -life'boi-se was not etftere'di «rid J he Waa ( >' ttnable to tnd' Wotid or the jockeiy •who was to have ridden- r it. He saw the howe at length with another rjdeT I tab, aodvhe wias ; a ! by•tender that it was all right, his horse ■ fI entered «^ Gundagai^ aiid ithe a ' Ifibfefeß1 fibfefeB i b6ing ; then on thepoiuib of startiM he was powerless m thejnatter^ { i