HECTOR GRAY EXPLAINS.

Shannon News, 5 June 1925, Page 3

HECTOR GRAY EXPLAINS.

Respecting his disqualification for life, Ilector Gray says the sportingpublic has not, heard his version of the affair. “Really all that happened,” he says, “was that a friend of mine sent nic in a note to the jockey’s room a.t Ricearton last November offering mo or Roy Reed £2OO if either of us rode Ruapapa in the Fendalton Handicap and won. 1 \ couldn’t ride, and suggested to Roy | Reed that'he should try and get it. } He told me I had better ask Quinlivan. 1 went and saw Quinli'van. [ and showed hi in the note, hut he : wouldn’t agree, and the matter dropped. I never had a ride in the race, and never thought any more about it. These are the actual facts. . . . “These facts are all true, and can be substantiated, by the man who sent in the letter; and this is what 1 am disqualified for life for. . . . “Anyhow, the sentence is out of all reason for the offence, if any was committed.”—N.Z. Times.