TURF SENATION.

Shannon News, 28 June 1927, Page 3

TURF SENATION.

favourite not on course . TITLED OWNER FINED. LONDON, June 7. j The Hurst Park stewards—Lord > Lonsdale,; Lord Derby and Sir Samuel Scott —summarily fined Sir’’ Henry _ Busby Bird the maximum of ; £SQ aba reported him to the Jockey" Club for - an unprecendented incident *in the Vyner Stakes. Three minutes before the start, when the numbers were up, - the stewards discovered that Sit Henry Bird's Galloper King, then a heavilybacked 5 to 4 on favourite, had not ; arrived. , , Sir Henry Bird says that be order- -■ ed the jockey to weigh out, believing that tho horse would arrive by road motor in time. . Actually the horse never left the training stables in Berkshire. -Amid the bookmakers’ loud protestations, the long-priced Tinto, on which there was a last-minute rush of money, wou in a canter. - . Sporting Life writes: “Tinto officially started at 6 .to 4. British sportsmanship prevailed even in that bedlam following the withdrawal of Galloper King’s number. A prominent amateur rider who had a moment before taken Tinto at three to one for hundreds of pounds returned to the bookmaker, and said: “This is unfair. Let the bet stand at starting price. 1 Newspapers are unanimous that sill bets should have been automatically , cancelled in such circumstances.