PAYING OUT AN HONEST JOCKEY;

Otago Witness, Issue 2356, 20 April 1899, Page 36

PAYING OUT AN HONEST JOCKEY;

The Australasian reports that at the Richmond Court on March 29, Andrew A. Jones and Thomas Barlow were proceeded against for committing a breach of the peace on March 27. The evidence of Sergeant Thompson and Constable Lawrence was that on the date in question they were on duty at the Richmond racecourse, where a race meeting was being held. After the finish of the first race, which was won by Cherry, the rider of the winning horse, a jockey named Barbour, when proceeding to the weighing enclosure, was rushed upon by defendants. The police pulled the latter away, but Barlow again rushed at and struck the jockey, and afterwards took the saddle off the horse's back, and threw it over two fences amongst a crowd of people. Defendants were then arrested, and on the way to the lock-up explained the reason, for their actions, which was that the jockey had disobeyed their instructions in allowing the horse to win the race. Defendants pleaded guilty, and were each fined 40a, or 14 days' imprisonment. On a charge of resisting Constable Lawrence when arrested Jones was fined 20s, or seven days.