LATE SPORTS AND PASTIMES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2561, 23 July 1909, Page 5

LATE SPORTS AND PASTIMES.

1 THE TURF. RACING CONFERENCE

IPlill PItKRB AsSOOIA'I iON.] WELLINGTON, July 22. •The Racing Conference resolved that for the purpose of securing a ruling as to whether any club can refute t<j< giant a license to any bookmaker who exercises liis calling at an unregistered meeting, the president be empowered, if he thinks fit, to authorise any one club to refuse a license in such.-a* case, and that such club be indemnified for any liability occurred in regard to any such refusal. Y i

Amendments to the rules were agreed to as under:—

Any person being the owner of the progeny of a sire may nominate such for a Sires’ Produce Stake, subject to the consent of the owner, or if the owner of the sire reside outside the Dominion the nominator shall be responsible for the entry fee of such sire, and shall receive any stakes. At a meeting where no totalisator is used, and not more than £l5O is given in stakes, the stewards may, with the previous authority of the Metropolitan Committee, on being satisfied that there are not sufficient licensed jockeys on the course who can ride the weights, issue emergency riders’ certificates available only on the day of issue. No whip or substitute for a whip, bridge-plates, or anything worn on a horse’s legs, shall be allowed in the scales in weighing-in or weighing-out. If the jockey cannot draw the proper or declared weight the clerk of the scales shall allow him one pound. Riders of placed horses must weigh in under a penalty not exceeding £SO. No rider in a hurdle race or steeplechase shall be weighed out unless he is provided with a skull cap. If any ticket be purchased on a horse which does not weigh out. the stewards may order the amount’paid on the purchase of the ticket to be refunded on production and delivery of the ticket, but no refund shall be made when the horse on which the ticket was purchased has weighed out. Any disqualified jockey or trainer shall not be debarred from obtaining employment unconnected with the training of horses. Every disqualified person entering upon a racecourse or otherwise shall thereby incur an addition to his sentence of one-third of its original duration, and shall be fined not less than £5 for every such act of disobedience, before such sentence shall he considered to have expired. The Auckland Metropolitan Committee recommended that the life disqualification imposed upon one Harris, in connection, with the Hierarch case, at Auckland, should be reconsidered, and a remission of sentence made. The trainer of the horse was also disquali-

‘ied for life, but the committee now considered that Harris (one of the owners) was not implicated to the same extent in the matter as the trainer. Sir Geo. Clifford said that as the disqualification had been imposed by the conference, it would have t-o deal with the question. It was one which should not be considered hurriedly. He moved that three judges be appointed to consider whether a remission of sentence should be allowed. —This was agreed to.

THE AUSTRALIAN STEEPLECHASE

United Press Association —Copyiucut (Received Julv 23. 12.50 a.m.) MELBOURNE, July 22. Workmaster and Boisdale are unlikely to start for the Australian Steeplechase.