JOCKEYS GENUINELY JIGGING.

Otago Witness, Issue 2325, 22 September 1898, Page 36

JOCKEYS GENUINELY JIGGING.

Says "Terlinga" : A correspondent in West Australia writes me that at a recent goldfields meeting two horsc3 ran a dead heat under {peculiar circumstances. Before the race their jockeys had a quarrel, and they continued it in the race. When they were coming up the straight, neck and neck, one rider leant over and tried to push the other off the horse. He nearly succeeded. Then the other got to work with his whip, and the pusher responding, the pair cut at each other until the poci was passed, and the judge declared a dead heat. The stakes were divided, so there was no chance of a return flogging; match between the jockeys. "The stewards," my correspondent says, "took no notice, although the flogging was going on right under their noses. Reading of this goldfields incident reminded me that I had read of a very similar affair which occurred at Randwick in 1869. The W. A. jockeys are probably unknown to fame outside their own colony,' but the delinquents in Sydney were O. Stanley and B. Colley, two of the m/ost prominent rioters in Australia. The race w*V3 the Doncaste"r Handicap, and Stanley rode Falcon, while Colley was on Circassian. The episode was thus described by 'Teeping Tom," in the Australasian: — "It appears that the offending jockeys wore on bad terms, and they chose to fight it out in the race, when, Colley having struck Stanley, a flogging match was carried on, the two running home right under the judge's box. Falcon was placed first, but on Colley protesting on the score of interference, Falcon was disqualified, and the race given to Tippler. Stanley was fined £20 and suspended for the rest of 1869, while Colley was fined £10 and suspended for the rest of the meeting." The W. A. and Randwick cases resemble each other, except as to the Result. If my correspondent has not overstated the facts, the stewards should have done several things, but I expect the disqualification of a couple of hot favourites is not the kind of job a goldfields steward would care to tackle.