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A OUEER OUTER DECISION The stewards at Aqueduct made a peculiar and unprecedented decision Tuesday in allow ¬ ing King a race over the wrong course to stand Of this affair the Morning Telegraph says To cap all at the end through a blunder that might easily have been avoided the last race was not run over the course as scheduled on the program It was at five furlongs but was run over five and a half furlongs The mistake was evidently due to the fact that the men in charge of the starting machine got the two starting points mixed and placed the apparatus at the five and a half furlongs instead of at the five furlongs furlongsThe furlongs The race was won by Vigenta Vietnam an outsider in the betting and immediately the blunder was known pretty nearly every other owner repre prepare ¬ sented scented threatened to enter a protest The stew ards bards decided that as the horses had actually run the five furlongs the race should stand The matter does not seem to be definitely covered in the rules unless it may come under Rule 142 which reads as follows An objection to the distance of a course officially designated must be made before the race An objection to a horse on the ground of his not having run the proper course Or of the race having been run on a wrong course must bo made before the numbers of the horses placed in the race are put up unless under special circumstances the stewards are satisfied that it could not have been made within that time timeThe trimester The mistake may have been a costly one to E Peters whose mare Fair Eebel Feeble led into the last furlong and possibly might have stayed long enough to have won had the race been run over the proper course five furlongs Mr Peters thought he had grounds to protest the purse though no formal protests were made at the time
