The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-05-08
RUSHVILLE HORSE CASE
ACTION OF NATIONAL TRoTTING AS
ISOLATION REVIEW BOARD.
Charges Against Dick WilsOn-Harris
Jones Denied acknowledgements
Running Race Results.

NEW YORK, May THE board of re-
view of the National Trotting Association
began its May session at the Murray Hill
Hotel to-day. and will hold daily sessions
until the list of cases to be investigated IS
disposed of. OF the many complaint cases
Investigated during the day only two were
Of Driver Frank Doble. who applied for re-
instatement. He was suspended by the
Judges at the trotting meeting held in Sau-
gus, Mass, last October. for twelve months
for pulling the pacing geiding Art Alec.
The judges reinstated him the following
day. but after a hearing of Judge Van
Wagner and T. S. Quimby, of Boston, and
Doble himself, the board decided that Doble
should remain suspended for twelve months
beginning last October.
The other case was a complaint made
BY Dennis Harrington. of this city, against
Dick Wilson, of Rushville Ind. Harring-
ton testified that he purchased the mare
Ruella as a two-year-old at an auction
sale in Madison square in November. 1929.
She was accredited with record of 2:25,1
in the sale catalogue, but after Harring-
ton had spent good deal of money in hav-
ing her trained the best she could do was
2:55 as three-year- and he claimed
that the catalogue record was a false one.
Edward H. Upton, of the Fasig-Tipton
Company, auctioneers, stated that Ruella
was one of the consignment of eleven
horses which Wilson had sent his firm to
sell, and that she was one of three TO
the names of which records were attached
Harrington told of his having requested
Wilson to refund the purchase money AMI
throw himself on the mercy of the board,
but Wilson had not done so. The board
decided that the National Trotting Associa-
ton should instruct its associate member
ship TO refrain from having any further
dealings with Wilson.
The matter of amateur owners who trot-
ted their horses TO wagon at matinee races
where there is no charge for admission and
that they should not have their horses
penalized on the records they make at
these events, was taken up. The case in
point was that OF the horse John a. Nc
kerron, owned by II. X. DevereauX, OF the
Gentlemen's Driving Club, of Cleveland,
@. Devereaux drove the animal at the
Readville (Alass.) track and won with him.
The contest was for a challenge cup,
which has to be won by member of the
same CLUB three times, not necessarily 10y
the same horse or member, and then be-
comes the property of the club The horse
McKerron had a record of 2:12Ia, but won
the race in 2:10, and the National Trotting
| Association had penalized the horse as be-
| ing in the 2:l0 class. Devereaux applied
| 20 the board of review not to have the horse
penalized, on the ground that the record
| was made strictly in amateur, and not
| professional. trotting. He presented his
| claim at length and showed the board the
| advantage OF the breeding of trotters by
amateurs, who spend great deal of money
without looking for financial gain. He
was ably supported by several other ANA
| teur owners. The case was taken under
| consideration.