THE ACME DISQUALIFICATION CASE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2210, 10 March 1886, Page 3

THE ACME DISQUALIFICATION CASE.

■ [ToillE^Ewibl!;] } >'' ; f'; : ■f'Kj Sir—Would you kindly allow me space to give the public a "detailed account, of, tho action as the Tinui Jockey Club in the. above matter, and seo if it will rebound to their credit, and as it is a topic of con-:: ' ■ Toraation just now' m. tho Wairavapa ■by many of your readers, a littlo light on the subject will bo satisfactory to many.. In the District Hack llace, horses to be the bona fido property of working men, the won was a legal candidate and compSd with the conditions of the race, bufc-bwore the start a rumor went about that there would bo : a protest if ho won. Notwithstanding this ho was freely backed by the public, but of course the clever division who put up tho job knew the next .best thing in it—Try. Luck—and of course backed him on the machine. Now f) protest was that;the same horse, me, had been nominated for other than a Jiack race, and it was alleged lie was the identical animal nominated by A. McLeod for the Maiden Plate at Carterton last . November, but Mr McLeod's nomination was a bay mare Acime (Note the difference of-the spoiling of the name) which nomination was scratched, and never showed up to bo identified, nor was' such' an animal known in the' district, so a lot' .of people jumped to the conclusion that the hack Acme—who is -a i/elding and McLeod's nomination a mare—owing to similarity in names, was oiio and the, jame. Now I had the hack. by name', Acme last Spring, and I ran him for' two hack hurdles, and one hack flat race,:' '"■% never gave anyone permission or authority. to enter him in any race whatever, ;ahd owing to the similarity of the name";!, was particular in impressing.on the; Stewards] of.tho Carterton.Club;that inyvJiack' was &ft the ■ animal;':' entered'';' : '.'for" their weeting in-the;:;Maiden;Platd; when I entered him.; in the-.SHacfc Hurdles. When ■tho.'.liprotest flidered by the Tinui Stewards, the", evidence taken before that august body, was conflicting,, and thoroi.was plenty-'of'a' Main class who were;either actuated'by. phonal malice, or/the dividend to. bo drawn from the other horso,'to- utter untruths, or statements they got by hearsay.' These were the principal' statements that. the stewards acted .'on;.and awarded the (takes to tho second, horse. 'The owner, myself, mid another'witness suggested that the secretary of the, Carterton Club ihould be applied to, who would be able to give the nomination in!.question as it was really made. ]f they had taken this course—obviously tho pioper one—in due respect and oourtesy .one club oives another, the certainty of getting. an authentic answer and in due deference the stewards owe tho backers of Acme in the machine from being robbed by the clever division, and not arrive at a conelusion on the statements of men who are ready to qualify their arguments with their fistjon those who refuse to swallow thorn. !M stewards wero advised by a gentlemaffiuf good racing experience, thai allowing Acme to be tho animal nominated for the Maiden Plato at Carterton, the nomination was informal, and did nol constitute a nomination. Now comes the cruel part of the story. On the first daj of tho Tinui races Acme was. nominate!; foTto bracelet race by a lady, where tht fin.' and second horao got a bracelet each, fio ran second and is entitled to second bracelet; but tho stewards, acting on theii infallible knowledge of racing law, »warded the second bracelet to the thirc horse, who was distanced and neyei weighed i» and consequently was not ii the raco at all. And they do this without giving Acme's nominator tho slightes 1 notice. The stewarc's of the Tinui Jockej Club collectively must imagine Admira Rous small potatoes compared ■to thei: arbitrary and roughshod decisions, and ii Ignoring the public and horse owners oi mere statements of maliciousanasordii people, who are ready to do a lot for tionsideration, and the suoiier the Tinu Rewards torn something about racing th better fofll concerned, I arn, &c, T. A. LYONB.