A BAD START
‘VH EN the New Zealand Trotting Conference adopted the “systematic" handicapping scheme, maximum penalties were fixed which gives adjusters still a discretionary power, but no provision was made for a “letting up" policy, although the New Zealand Metropolitan handicapper, Mr. G. Paul, appears to have made such a method applicable in framing the Addington allotment. When Young Blake was placed on a 4.29} mark at Auckland, he was liberally treated, and as pointed out in THE SUN at the time, it was the handicapper’s tip, and the trotter duly landed. On the concluding day off 4.29 in the pacer-3’ contest, Young Blake finished in third place, and rightly no penalty is awarded a horse in this class getting the small end of the purse. But in the bi% event at Addington, Morgan 0' men's fine trotter is “let up" 12 yards, being on a 4.30 mark. This is a bad beginning for the new system. '
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 726, 27 July 1929, Page 15
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158A BAD START Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 726, 27 July 1929, Page 15
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