“SIT-DOWN” ON TRACK
RACEGOERS’ PROTEST LIGHT FINE FOR JOCKEY (0.30 a.m.) ' LONDON. March 25. Racegoers staged a sit-down strike at the Nantes racecourse as a protest against insufficient punishment of a jockey who, it is alleged, pulled his horse to let his stablematc win. says Router’s correspondent in Paris. When the jockeys returned to the scales, the racegoers held up the three placed horses and then took up a position on the track and blocked the way for 45 minutes until rain dispersed them. The jockey was fined £l.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 21980, 26 March 1946, Page 8
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