The Disqualification of Falcon.

Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2928, 4 July 1878, Page 2

The Disqualification of Falcon.

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(from our (hebald's) own cobbespon-

DENT.)

; Dunbdin, Tuesday/ •' The sporting writer of the: Star replies to-night to the anonymous correspondent who last week wrote in adverse terms of Mr McGee, and,approvingly of his dig. qualification, under the norn de piuniie. of "Blair Athol.'' The Star's contributor goes on to show that "Blair Athol "deliberately stated more than the facts, has argued from false premises, and has disingenuously withheld certain undeniable facts which would have told against his arguments. He says, also, that " Biair Athol " described in a most' unfair way the Selling Race, and the manner Falcon was ridden. The last clause of the letter is as follows i— "With regard to Mr McGee V beingl- -' ever dissatisfied' with handicapping his horse .' Blair Athol,' of course, knows more than I do; but, I can assure him that owners in the Southern pro* . vinces are all ' ever dissatisfied.' At all events, I have never yet come > across a satisfied one. The Auckland handicapper is not the only one that'has put us to ' trouble. No handicapper's billet is a bed of roses, and Southern officials could unfold innumerable tales of the abuse they have heard lerelied, at them. The cost of management of Mr McGee's training stable I know nothing about, but am certain the expenses attached to entering his horses and racing them for two years would make a con* siderable hole in the £810 he won in stakes during that time, £2C9 of which' was bj fluke, and no one but Tommy Hodgsen was mustered to train four or five horses." I notice that Mr McGee has during that period employed other jockeys besides the redoubtable Tommy, and young McGee and those extra hands would, I imagine, require to be paid.