HANDICAPPING PROBLEM
MAIDEN PERFORMERS “BILLY” HAS GRIEVANCE “Billy Carbine” writes: I am only a beginner at the trotting game, and the other day I went as fast as ever I knew how. This was the first time I had taken the game on. I got well licked off the front mark. Well, because I want to have another go at the same game, the man they call the handicapper (?) sticks me away back in the ruck and asks me to do 3.42 for 1% miles, while he has practically made a gift of a race in another class to a female friend of mine, who went 3.29 1-5 for 1£ miles, and is now placed on 3.38. Now, sir, if it is fair to put Joy Bird on 3.38, what about poor Billy Carbine, because he did his best and went 4.53 for two miles? [“Billy did not notice that Gold Dial, who won from 4.45 at Hamilton in 4.42 4-5 is still on a 4.44 mark in the President’s Handicap at Whangarei, although she is on the limit, 4.42, in the Cup.—Abaydos.]
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 221, 7 December 1927, Page 10
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183HANDICAPPING PROBLEM Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 221, 7 December 1927, Page 10
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