The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-08-03
STAKES TO
The WINNER
Decision of Race Track
Judges.
NO PROTEST ALLOWED
Investigation Board Says Objection
Was Trumped up One and
! Unsportsmanlike.

After a careful investigation. Messrs.
Cluney. Campbell and Judd, the judges of
the match race run last Saturday between
Brock and Manuleli, have unanimously
decided that the stakes must be paid over
to the hackers of the winning horse.
yhe MAIN reason for their decision is
that in their opinion the objection was a
any leg innate grounds for protest, the
jockey who rode Manuleli would have
made his protest at the time prescribed
by the rules of racing, instead of waiting
to be prompted by persons who were
heavy losers on the race. The judges in
ed by the fact that the boy who rode Ma
nuleli was not novice at the racing bus
mess. and therefore would have been
keenly' alive to the fact had a foul on his
horse been committed.
The following extracts from the Cali
fornia Jockey Club racing rules, which
obtain on the local track, are appended in
explanation Of the views taken by both
parties, as well as by the judges.
| Rule 5-The express conditions of race
supersede all rules when they conflict.
] Rule 1O4-A horse crossing another, SO
as to actually impede him, is disqualified,
unless the impeded horse was partly IN
fault, or the crossing was wholly caused
| by the fault of some other horse or
jockey. Complaints under this rule can
only be received from the owner, trainer
or jockey of the aorse alleged to be ag-
grieved, or by the Judges, and must be
made to the clerk of the scales or to the
Judges before or Immediately after his
Jockey has passed the scales.
| Rule 131-Every objection must be made
by the owner, traiher or jockey of some
horse engaged in the race or by the off,
cials of the course, and to one OF the
Judges of the race, or to the clerk of the
course. or to the clerk of the scales. or tc
one of the board of directors.
Rule 133-An objection to a horse on the
ground of his not having run the prope,
lcourse, or of the race having been run or
a wrong course, or of any other matter
occurring in tie race, must be made with
in quarter of an hour after the winner
has weighed in, and before the number.
of the horses placed in the race are pu,
UP, unless under special circumstances
the judges are satisfied that it could no
have been made within that time
, Now that the affair is definitely settled
a few words on the matter may not bt
anriss. The judges had no alternative bu
To decide as they did, and there is no prec.
edent in racing that could have infiuenc
! ed them In giving a contrary decision L
the rules are to be lightly regarded rae
ing would be reduced to a state of chaos
While the rule book appears to be boun(
! with much superfuous red tape, hard ant
. fast lines must be adhered to If the hes
interests of the sport are to be respected
No one saw the alleged foul but John GU
derkirk, and from his position as startel
. at the time he says the foul was made
1t was simply imposs BILE for him TO SAY
definitely if foul were committed or not
Brock was UNNECESSARILY the better hors,
I and won on his merits. If the MANUEL
people had any objection to Ferre.ra rid
ing Brock, on account of his disqualified
ton, they should have made it before tn,
race was run. In racing, as in othel
J sports, the decision of the judges or ref
cree is frrovokably final unless extra ordi
! rary circumstances, which in the presen
instance were lacking, warrant its rever
sal; If this is not acknowledged as wei
place an automaton in the jud cial stand
! Captain Cluney is reported as having sal,
! that he witnessed the foul and rendered
his decision too hastily. This he most EN-
phatically denies, and that he made an,
such remark as attributed to him is in
credible, for 1t would simply mean tina
! by his statement he had compromises
hlmself to such an extent as to prov,
hmself utterly unfit to judge horse race
and to inevitably preclude him from eve
I again ornamenting the judges box.
! The thing Is over and done with: TIL
: best horse won. If a forfeit of say, s25
were made necessary before an objection
was considered, the number of farcica
protests would decrease appreciably
) Perhaps the most remarkable fruit o
: the investigation was the amazing ignor
ance of the most eemen airy rules of rae
ing displayed by persons who profess ant
, call themselves horsemen