AUCKLAND SPRING FIXTURE

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 466, 22 September 1928, Page 7

AUCKLAND SPRING FIXTURE

NOMINATIONS NEXT FRIDAY SOME IMPORTANT CLAUSES Nominations for all events on the Auckland Trotting Club’s spring programme, which comes up for settlement on October 13 and 17, will close at 5 p.m. on Friday next, September 28, with Secretary A. G. Mabee. The October meeting, which opens the light-harness season in the Auckland Province, is always a popular one with owners and trainers in various parts of the Dominion, and as a result they respond liberally to the call for nominations. This is not to be wondered at, considering that the club is allotting £B,OOO in stakes for the two days’ sport, and that a schedule has been drafted to attract the speed kings of the land. Renomination Clause This year the club has decided to adopt the “renomination clause,” which has been worked satisfactorily by several trotting bodies in other parts of the Dominion. The clause referred to states: — Placed horses on the first and second day of a meeting doing better time than that specified in the classes for which they are nominated on the second or third day may be renominated for a higher class of race of the same distance on such second or third day. Such nominations may be made at any time, up to half an hour after the finish of the last race of the first or second day of the meeting. Any questions arising under this provision shall be determined by the stewards, whose decision shall be final and binding on all parties. Owners who have representatives engaged in the Great Northern Derby, which is being staged on the opening diay of the forthcoming fixture, would do well to note that the final payment for the classic also falls due on Friday next at 5 p.m. Qualifications of Eligibles ..Several events have special conditions in connection with the qualification of entrants and the appended clauses are worthy of consideration by those who intend nominating for these items, and thus obviate any chance of finding their charges tagged “Ineligible” when tho handicaps are declared. Horses to be eligible to start in races for which the conditions are “have done” or “been handicapped to do” a given time, must, prior to the time of nomination, have registered a placed performance (first, second or third) at a registered race meeting, cr been handicapped to do the time by a handicapper recognised by the club or its committee. Where the condition is for horses that “have not done” this shall be deemed to mean at time of starting (unless otherwise stipulated), and horses after nomination doing better time than that specified in the class, and some distance for which they are nominated, shall be ineligible to start.