Los Angeles herald., 1892-12-18

before the board of review some more.
While there is no doubt that Frank
Noble, the owner of Alcryon, was the
criminal in the case because he sole, the
race and Nelson bought it, yet the aim
of turf congresses should be to prevent
com promises of this sort, and ineure
bona fide contests. It has ended up,
however, in the stallion Nelson being re-
instated, but his owner is merely put
upon probation. II he doee what is
straight hereafter (Which will be an up
hill job for him, by the way, his dis.
abilities will be removed.
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There were 96 cases on the docket
when the board of review conventd-
The member from California was absent,
and 30 were many others. The most
important one is that OF Leicester, from
the Buffalo track, in which the judges
ove,ruled the action of both the starter
and distance judge, and gave portion
of the purse to horse that was over
15 feet outside of the flag when
the leading horse paesed the wire. The
rules on this point have since been
amended. The trotting rules and trot-
ting decisions under them have been
full of incongruities for years. In 1881
the great stallion trot at R ,chester cav
Hannis very properly sent to the stable
for not winning one heat in five, but
the judges gave him the fourth money
in the race, although he was out of the
race when it was decided. They should
have taken the fourth money and APP
portioned it between the first three
horses.
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The finances OF International Trotting
association are in very good shape. 1t
had to it's credit on November Let cash
balance of S22 O79 SO and the balance TO
the credit of the trust fund was Sl2,-
263 S4 The latter fund will be almost
ex,inguished by the decisions of the
board at its present meeting and at the
adjourned meeting in May at Chicago,
as it consists principally of cash held
under protest The total membership
is now 518, the largest in it's history,
and is in healthy contrast withits mem
hership of 203 in 1857, at which time
Mr.. M. M. Morse became the secretary.
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The "welching" of certain western
trotting associations whose officers had
embezzled stake money, or, in ether re-
| spects, appropriated to their own uses
| funds that had been deposited with
| them as entrance money in sweepstake
races, received notice at the hands of
| the board to the effect that their mem
bership was forfeited. This makes the
| Columbus (Tenn.) an outlaw and every
body that was connected with it during
| the Jones fasco. Mr.. jones is in big
| luck today to be on the outside of the
| Nashville penitentiary, to my notion.
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| The Bellefower-Sarbina case came up
| at the same time. and as it contains q
| matter of local interest to California
| horeemen l will dwell upon it at greater
| length than if it were strictly an east
| ern race. It grows out of the Kentucky
stakes for three-year.ol at Lexington
| in October last. The race was for q
valuable prize and the distance was a
mile and repeat, instead of the usual
mile heats, 3 in 5. This reduced the
distance from 100 yards to 80, but the
distance Judge in the first heat went to
the old station, 100 yards, and the race
started with Directum, Sarbina, The
Gear and Belehower. All but The
Czar were bred in California.
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The first heat eaw bad break on the
part of Bellefower, who lost great deal
of space by it, while the others were
trotting as steadily as clocks. Marvin
made an effort only to save his distance
in this heat, and had to trot the laet
half mile in l :05 to accomplish this.
The next heat Bellefower won and Ss-
brina came in fourth. Directum went
on and won the race, the Gar second,
and the judges placed Bellefower third.
Against that decision Goldsmith pro-
tested in behalf of Sabrins, alleging
that if the distance judge had been in
his proper place in the first heat, Belle.
| flower would have been distanced, and
could not have started for second heat.
Miller and Sibley finally withdrew their
claim for third money, and Goldsmith
got it. HIDALao.