Late Turf
AUSTRALIAN TROTTERS HANDICAPPING PROBLEM BOARD’S RECOMMENDATION (Special to THE SUN) CHRISTCHURCH, Today. The report recently furnished bv Trotf^S 1 'S ltte s ° f the Xew Zealand e S B ° ard on the question of penalties for Australian horses was preffightl t °4 t ?. e bo ?. rd at a meeting last . £t , er discussion, the report * as . adopted, and it was decided to forward it to the handicappers. the committee recommended that some agreement on the point between the New Zealand and Austrai. controlling bodies, handicappers should be recommended to handicap horses imported from Australia as having run 2sec faster for one mile or a mile and a quarter. 3sec faster mile and a half, and 4sec faster lor two miles, than their Aus£l.a„Uan records for these distances l£ wa « suggested that the main reasons for tho success of recent importations from Australia were that tile kew Zealand tracks were faster, and that insufficient particulars were with the list of Australian performances.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 699, 26 June 1929, Page 13
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163Late Turf Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 699, 26 June 1929, Page 13
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