TRAINER AT ROSEHILL

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 47, 18 May 1927, Page 6

TRAINER AT ROSEHILL

FREPARED DONCASTER WINNER NOT TAKING IT LYING DOWN “Bailie sot our letter, and knows the reason for the Rosehill Racing Club debarring him from training on our company’s track after the end of this month.” Thus Mr. Theo. J. Marks, chairman of the Rosehill Club, when asked last Thursday for further details concern - ing the trouble with the well-known owner-trainer, R. Bailie, whose successes this season include the A.J.C. Challenge Stakes and Doncaster with Don Moon. Apart from this, Mr. Marks declined to make any statement. TRAINER AT A LOSS The action against Bailie has caused a sensation in racing circles. That trainer states that, notwithstanding Mr. Marks’s reply to a newspaper representative, he is at a loss to know the real reason which has influenced the club in adopting extreme measures against him. He states that the letter he received contained nothing explanatory. Bailie says: “There is absolutely no sense of fairness in the treatment meted out to me. I was not even given an opportunity to thresh the matter out with the committee. I have had my quarrels with the track oflicials and was more or less instrumental in having the course made more public than when I began training there. Other than that, I can recall nothing that would bring any friction to a head. WANTS OPEN INQUIRY “I am very upset at the turn things have taken, as I have laid out large sums of money on my property and staples at Granville and if I have to move from that district it will mean a heavy loss to me. “But I am not prepared to take my medicine lying down. I would be satislied were the committee to hold an inquiry, to which representatives of the press were admitted, so that both sides of the story could be heard. But if the club won’t come out into the open, I’ll light them.’' - It will be recalled that wherv Bailie had bought his stable at Granville four or live years ago he was at first refused permission to tra,ih on the Rosehill racecourse. However, after correspondence with the directors he was given a trainer’s permit.