DUNEDIN HANDICAPPING DIFFICULTY.
The settlement of the Dunedin handicapping difficulty with Northern horseowners, appears to be almost as far off as ever. A telegram says the Club have further postponed the matter, after a lengthy letter from the handicapper. Mr Stead’s letter in reply to the circular sent to him by Mr Sydney James, the D.J.C. secretary, is very fair in tone, and he says that “if he can assist the Committee in removing the causes which have led to the friction he will bo happy to do so.” At the same time, Mr Stead sticks to his allegation about certain Otago stables being favoured by Mr Dowse. He does not state who the owners are, and it appears on the surface this is what] the D.J.C. want to force him into. In the concluding part of his letter Mr Stead remarks:—“A handicapper occupies a most thankless office, and owners at times are very unreasoning in their complaints, but when the horses in one or two stables appear to be treated time and again with marked leniency, and no explanations are vouchsafed, it is scarcely to be wondered at if credence is given to startlingly circumstantial statements respecting the alleged cause of such favours,”
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Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 477, 4 June 1890, Page 5
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204DUNEDIN HANDICAPPING DIFFICULTY. Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 477, 4 June 1890, Page 5
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