NEW RULES OF RACING.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 408, 5 October 1889, Page 3

NEW RULES OF RACING.

lx determining bo repeal the old racing rules, and make law from the let of October tho rules adopted at the Wellington conferonce, the 'Auckland Racing Club have actod sensibly. The Canterbury Jockey Club resolved this week to adopt them, and it seems certain that the other Metropolitan Clubs, with the exception of Duhedin, will also follow the example. 1 There was a lot of surprise expressed among the members of the A.R.C. on Wednesday that the Dunedin Club should wi&h to diftsenjb because one or two rules interfered with Fome particular country club. The Metropolitan Clubs should back up the work of their delegates, for no doubt the members of tho conference have the cause of racing at heart ; and it is necessary that the adoption should be universal. Although the Auckland Racing Club have brought the new rules into law, they do not intend to do away with the two old rules referring to jockeys licenses and the Distressed Jockeys' Fund, which are to be made into a by-law, and which should have been incorporated in the new rules by the delegates. The following are the rules referred to :—: — 173. No .jockey shall ride in races on the course until he shall have obtained a license from the Committee of the Club, on application at the oflico of the Club, and paying to the Secretary a foe of ono guinea annually, which will go towards a Distressed Jockeys' 1< uiul. 174. Every jockey shall on application for a ireensi- furnish the Secretary of the Club with his full name and address. A list of the licensed j jockeys shall be kept in the olftce and published annually. The objections to the new rules by the Dunedin Club, briefly stated, are — (1) That a rule obliging all programmes to be advertised in the official calendar iv nob of sufficient importance to justify the extra expense. (2) That if the amount per diem for one meeting i 3 raised to £100 it will seriously affect some of the small meetings in the Obngo district. The law as at present works without complaint or abuse, and there seems no good reason for changing it. (3) That tho meinbors of the Club regret that tho conference did not agree to the proposal made by its delegate regarding the amount of stakes to be given, as providod by rule 22, subsection V — namely, that the amount be reduced from ,£2OO to £150 per diem for clubs holding two meeting in the year, or allow the present fixed amount to be applicable to clubs within a reasonable radin.s of largo centres of population. At the Dunedin meeting one member, Mr (iourley, said it was quite evident that the circumstances that governed Otago in this matter were not applicable to Canterbury and Auckland. If necessary, a special rule might be made for Otago, and another for any other district wheie it was wanted. Many of the smaller clubs in •bago had been in oxistence as loi£ as tho Dunedin Club ibself,and not one word had been Baid against them, and so long as that was the case so long should oney be allowed to race, even although they only gave £50 a day.