NOTHING AT TAKAPUNA

NZ Truth, Issue 1180, 12 July 1928, Page 13

NOTHING AT TAKAPUNA

Now Horsemen Await Issue Of NeW Licenses ■ ■,■■>■ • ■ ■■ ■■'■■, - : (From "N.Z. Truth's" Special Auckland Representative.) . . The second act m ' ' No* them Racing Sensations " has been staged, and as a result at least one horseman breathes more freely. ■ . ;.■ ■.'.-.■ /' "■ „; ■-' _• \ '.. "': . ' ■'. ' ... 'THAT horseman appeared to be really Regarding the stir .arising ?out of the 1 up v against it when another rider— hurdle race at' Firohgia, there is riothsince outed— inferred, during the ing fresh to report. Rotorua Inquiry, that there may have „ „ ■ . ... . .. ■ been something doing at the Takapuna ' f ther ? .. was . a " v *. hi r 3 . '"j* 1 ? 6 meeting m January. nature of "rigging" ,t is hard. to However, after a lengthy inquiry last «magine npw_ any great financial week, when all the horsemen riding m gafn could have been a.mcd at. the High Weights at the January flx- The mee tihg is of the non-tote typo,, ture and trainers were examined, the a nd wagering is of the limited illegal Takapuna officials failed to satisfy or( j er> . ■ -i themselves that any malpractice had ' Therefore, if any collusion did' take taken place. c place it must have been of the "peanut" At least, that is the only con- variety, for it would be almost imposelusion to be arrived at from the, sible to get set for much.more than the finding of the Takapuna club com- price of a "half-handle;" mittee. ' It is no exaggeration to state that tual finding was given to the Press, ; thn . (,{ eaT etta butt and if 2f S£S<£! WftSJS a^oSemSfmr&dSysVSared ft ?* ™ wno ISW ?o f SKS to "rig" races for little more than a dip was concerned it failed to find any- trying of no sympathy. thing really tangible to prove there whjje &alloplng on Thursday mornwas_ collusion. , _ , ■ ■ _■■ ln& Jugt go str uck one of the posts of There is a feeling that the Auckland f Jt' niVtf ,« flft fpnce The iniurv wag not district committee may still deal with nal Se?ed seHous, bui i later^nTamethe matter. . riess developed and consequently the It cannot be denied that the pub- fllly will not be seen out at'Tr'eritham. He viewed the particular High This was bad luck for. W. H. Bwyer, Weights concerned with mingled who had the half-sister to Kiosk m good feelings, fettle, and she must have been very If nothing else, some good will hard to beat m her engagements. probably 1 result from the publicity * . * * • given the matter. . ' F. Tilly has four or five youngsters Though no suspensions were forth- to get ready for the coming season's coming, it is generally .believed that racing, but the Fordell mentor is not some northern horsemen are anxious hurrying them. He d^oes not believe m regarding their tickets for next season, early racing for two-year-olds, and, as Nothing but the publication of a rule waits until the end of October licenses for the new term will relieve before calling upon them for any seritheir suspense. ous efforts. ■