THREE LOSE LICENCES

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 672, 25 May 1929, Page 10

THREE LOSE LICENCES

COMMITTEE’S DECISION Press Association CHRISTCHURCH, Friday. The Licensing Committee of the New Zealand Racing Conference has cancelled W. S. Young's licence as a. trainer for failing to notify his change of address. The committee has cancelled H. MeSweeney’s licence as a trainer, and E. W. A. Rosewarne’s licence as a jockey, while J. Barry’s licence has been mad-# conditional. E. C. Browne’s application for a jockey’s licence has been refused; also N. K. McDonnell’s application for permission to work in a stable. Incorrect Card The men who cried “Correct card’. Card of the races!” at Wanganui last week probably thought what they were purveying were really correct cards. But where they? Just listen to this: Race 1, on Thursday, the Purua Hack Handicap, run in divisions, was a perfect jumble, horses being numbered from 1 to 14, and then 15, 15a, and so on, to 24a. After the club's decision to open the totalisator onl3 r once on the event, it would have been reasonable to have expected that the 34 acceptors would have been distinctly divided into “first division” and “second division,” instead of running them right on and leaving the public to sort out their respective fancies from brief division lists at the end. And the pedigrees contained in the 30-odd pages would make a Bruce Lowe enthusiast weep! Royal Acre’s dam was given as Euroclydon; Flying Binge’s dam as Cushla; Warplane became War Plane; Broxt was by the mare Ambitious, out of an imported stallion, Arrowsmith; Fallow was an “aged colt”; and Latakia did not have an age a tall! Joke Form was true to label, being the progeny of two wellknown Taranaki sires, Monoform and Wairiki, while Whenuatonga, Naselle, and Good Cheer were all of the “no division.

One of the Best The popular Auckland winter meeting opens at Ellersli© next b-atuida). The principal events are the Great Northern Hurdles and the Cornwall Handicap. On the following Monday. J une 3 (King’s Birthday), the Great Northern Steeplechase will he decided. Yoma’s Performances

In answer to a correspondent: Tomas placed performances to date this sea- j son are as follow —Third with 8.5 to j Wenday 7.8, and Anolo, 7.8, in Malone | Memorial at Stratford summer; won j Wellington R.C. Handicap, with 7.3. at , Wellington, summer; won Egmont Cup j with 7.11 at Egmont, summer; won j Taranaki Cup with 8.4 at Taranaki, j summer; second with 8.13 Rapine, j 92, in Wanganui Cup, at Wanganui, autumn. The stake money Toma has j won this term amounts to £2.000. Missing Ellerslie B. H. Morris. R. G. Morris, and J. j Barry will be riding at the Otaki meeting. Barry will be on R. Johnston's | team. Served Its Purpose The 9st minimum affects very few clubs nowadays, and it is about time that it was completely discarded (says a Southern writer). The idea of raising the minimum 4Slb in winter, when the going is generally heavy, seems repugnant to common sense, but. like other antiquated ideas, takes a lot of killing. Its chief object is to allow riders to go to the scales without the necessity of wasting in unfavourable weather. This could be accomplished with an 8.0 minimum without sacrificing the interests of those who generally ride at the top of the scale.