JOCKEY APPEALS IN VAIN.
REMOVAL. OF SUSPENSION OFFER TO LEAVE NEW ZEALAND. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, this day. Hector Gray, formerly New Zealand's leading jockey, asked the Racing Conference to-day to lift its sentence of life suspension. Gray said in a letter that he had received an offer from India to ride, but whether he would be able to do s•> defended on the confertnee. Since his disqualification he had played the gam", lie had learnt his n and wuulii Llv o the country if 1 h-> conference imposed that condition. He did not ask that the conference shoul I errant :» rntiisr-'on h : s sentence in N'.*h Zealand, but that it should give him a chance of earning a decent living in some other country.
The application was considered in committee, and it was declined.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 164, 13 July 1928, Page 8
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