HANDICAPPING EXTRAORDINARY.
TO TUB EDITOH. Sin,—l hope you will allow me through vour valuable "paper to take exception to the handicapping of the Waipa Racing Club. I believe the business of a handieipperist.o weight all tie horses so that they shall have an equal chance of winning. If this is so, I should like to know what chance Diek Hunt at 10st 121b. has with the Don at lOst 10lb. ; also, what chance Bob Sawyer has with the latter horse with lOst 21b. up. The Don has, 1 think, started in six races this season, winning three, second in two, and in the last, run at Ellerslie on New Year's Day, I have it on very good authority that he might have been second if his jockey had been " on the contract." Bob Sawyer, who has the appearance of an aged and broken-down pony, has not won a race for three years, his principal recommendation being that he succeeded under heavy punishment in getting within twenty lengths of the Don at Hamilton with sixteen pounds less in the saddle than he has got to carry at To Awamutn. I should like also to know what Mnskapeer (who has never run a race in his life), has done that he should carry 21bs. more in the Cup than Sir Walter, Memorandum or St. Michael, all of which have won races quite lately. If the Waipa Racing Club wish to present certain horse-owners with their prizes, why don't they advertise thefactalongwith their programme; so that the uninitiated may know which races are mortgaged, and which are not. I have lietrd many turfites who were not interested, say that the handicapping of the S.A.R. Club, was one of the worst productions they had ever seen ; but the perpetrators of this outrage on the owners of horses, have completely eclipsed them in every particular. If this is to be the ruling state of affairs, the sooner we have a paid handicapper in the Waikato the better, instead of leaving this delicate business in the hands of ienornnt amateurs as at present.—l am, sir, your obedient servant, Old Idkntity.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2422, 19 January 1888, Page 2
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354HANDICAPPING EXTRAORDINARY. Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2422, 19 January 1888, Page 2
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