ALLEGED OFFER OF BRIBE
AN INQUIRY HELD (Per United Press Association) AUCKLAND, June 6. The Auckland District Committee held an inquiry into the allegation that an attempt was made by an outsider to offer a bribe to the jockey P Burgess to pull Suleiman in the Waihou Handicap on the first day of the Te Aroha Jockey Club's annual meeting in February The committee decided that another jockey who was alleged to have been involved in the matter was not guilty of any evil intent, but he was admonished and advised to communicate with racing officials immediately if any incident of the kind occurred again.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23828, 7 June 1939, Page 17
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