Hack Races.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 400, 7 January 1890, Page 2

Hack Races.

[to THE SUITOR.]'

Sia,— "Hack Owner” ia certainly deserving of commiseration in having to run his little “ non-Oarbine ” hack against trained hsraes, but he overlooks one or two points which affect the other side ot the question. He lays soma stress on the point that horses entered in handicap events are trained, but ignores th; fact that the majority of horsis competing it) hack races are brought to tho poet with as much, and in some oases more, condition than the so-called trained horses; also, that if a Club accepts ths sntrles ot the latter, it would be a manifest injustice on tho part ot tbs handicapper to allot them a weight disproportionate to ti;eir nertormancss. I agree with “Hack Owner ” in tbinking'it inadvisable tor two classes of horses to m«t in the earn# race, and think tfiat the difficulty might bs obviated by eliminating from the programme the word hack, and substituting tor it, “ Horses that have never won an advertised race of more than Uhovs,"—l am, Ao,, Abiroor*.