TROTTING CONTROL

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 584, 9 February 1929, Page 11

TROTTING CONTROL

NORTHERN CRiTICS CONDEMNED •V writer in a Southern sporting paper, who has quite evidently not attended any trotting fixtures in this province for some time, devotes some space in praise of the general control of the sport throughout the Dominion. His heroic effort to whitewash certain happenings, ©f which, apparently, he has no first-hand information, is ludicrous, but his attempt at gallantrv in this respect might have been more commendable had he refrained from an unwarranted attack upon the rank and file of patrons, and the vituperation levelled against Northern sporting writers, who have been drawing attention to certain affairs, not of an imaginary nature, but cold, hard facts, and referred to in the hope that closei' attention on the part of the authorities will result in remedial measures being taken that will eliminate mistakes and place the popular sport on a footing that will result in greater public confidence. The Southern “armchair critic,” following, no doubt, certain instructions, should be charitable enough to give his fellow writers credit for an endeavour to elevate further the standard of the sport, and the long-suffering public credit for unbiased judgment. TROTTING FIXTURES Wellington T.C.—February 16. Kaikoura T.C.—February 23. | Otahuhu T.C.—February 23, 27. 1 Invercargill T.C.—February 27, 23. Marlborough T.C.—March 1. Waikato T.C.—March 2.