VARIOUS MATTERS BROUGHT FORWARD.

Marlborough Express, Volume LIV, Issue 126, 31 May 1920, Page 5

VARIOUS MATTERS BROUGHT FORWARD.

RJSEERVED FOR RACING

1921

CONFERENCE,

WELLINGTON; May 31. At the conference1 between Sir George Clifford and the jockeys, a. request, was made for an increaso of 50 per cent, on losing'fees and a flat rate of 5 per cent, on all winning mounts and place money above £1(K). Sir George ©lifibrdi agreed to bring ' the proposal before the Racing Conference and support it. The jockeys argued; in favor of increasing the minimuni weight to seven stone and making the top weight always nine stone. After a long discussion it 'was agreed to debate the proposal at the* Racing Conference. The riders also asked that welter weights should be carried froni May Ist, instead of from June sth as now,. to August 31st. It was agreed" that clubs should be asked not to postpone the starbingtime of-races; that riders, if doing preliminaries, should be; allowed torettirn to the bird-cage when the> weather was wet: that jockeys should have a right to be represented by a. licensed Jockey at all" inquiries, and that all pi^ngrammes must havp a. hurdle race or jumpers' flat handicap and oiip apprentices' race on them. The Jockeys' Association hold that ■the conference was non-representa-tive, but claims that some' of tho matters considered had already been put forward by the Association and refused.