THE TURF.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2496, 8 May 1909, Page 3

THE TURF.

DISQUALIFICATION OF ROYAL SOULT ENDORSED.

[Per-Press Association.]

NAPIER, May 7. Sir. Geo. Clifford and Messrs Geo. Hunter, and J. W. Abbott, the judges appointed by ‘ the Racing Conference, liave had two appeals before them. They have remitted the Cunningham case to the Auckland Metropolitan Committee for the consideration of fresh evidence which had not been produced at the previous hearing by them. In the Royal tSoult- case the judges’ decision is as follows:—“In the matter of an.appeal by Samuel George Lindsay, owner of the horse Royal S§ult, and Mark Ryan, jockey, against the decisions of the Auckland Metropolitan Committee endorsing disqualifications imposed by the Avondale Jockey dub, the judges are of opinion that the horse Royal Soult was, with the knowledge and consent of the owner, Samuel George Lindsay, fraudulently prevented from winning the Nihotapu Handicap, run on the second day of tlio Avondale Jockey Club’s spring meotingj 1908. The evidence is not decisive as to whether lie was so prevented by an overfeed administered by one, William Jones, as alleged by him, or by being deliberately pulled by the jockey, Mark Ryan, though many circumstances seem to indicate that the confession of William'Jones was conclusive as between himself and Samuel George Lindsay. Tlie judges feel compelled to give Mark Ryan the benefit, of their doubt as to the method adopted in stopping the horse. They therefore confirm the endorsement by the Auckland Metropolitan Committee of tlie disqualification by the Avondale Jockey Club of Samuel George Lindsay, and tlie horse Royal Soult for two years, but reverse the decision of the said club as regards the disqualification of the jockey Mark Ryan. They call the attention of-the Auckland Metropolitan Committee to the evidence given in this case by William Jones, and recommend that lie be disqualified for life. They order deposits of the appellants to be refunded.”