THE DUDU—SULTAN RUNNING.

Te Aroha News, Volume VIII, Issue 394, 17 August 1889, Page 6

THE DUDU— SULTAN RUNNING.

The outcome of the accusation of Harry Piper against E. Cutts over the alleged " cutting-up " in the last Wellington Cup has been that the last-named has requested an inquiry into the matter, and the Cantorbury Jockey Club will probably take tho matter in hand. From particulars of the evidence taken in Court, Piper's account was this :— Before the Cup was run, Cutta pointed out that it was a pity Dudu and Sultan should be competing against ono another ab the Hutt, and suggested that " Mr Hammond" should be asked to scratch Sultan for the Wellington Cup, take half the stake wort by Dudu, and. give Cutts half the stakes Sultan might win at Dunedin. Piper wrote a letter embodying this proposal to " Mr Hammond," but after showing it to White, the jockey — who said he knew his employer would not consent to the arrangement —he saw Gutts again, and ultimately destroyed the letter. In an explanation elicited from Cutbs since the Court proceedings, he throws a somewhat different complexion on the affair. He noticed, what was generally admitted, that Sultan was backward in condition, and would have no chance against Dudu in the Wellington Cup. He said to Piper he was sorry he had not seen MiHammond before leaving Christchurch, and proposed that Dudu should go to Wellington, while Sultan completed his preparation for Dunedin. He was so satisfied of Sultan's ability, when well, to beat Dudu at the Dunedin Oup weights, that he would gladly agree to divide the stakes won by the two horses. There was no suggestion that either horse should bo run except on its merits. The proposal was to withdraw Sultan from the Wellington Cup' and Dudu from the Dunedin Cup, and tho owners " cut up " the stakes won.