DISHONEST JOCKEYS.

Otago Witness, Issue 2456, 10 April 1901, Page 44

DISHONEST JOCKEYS.

During a chat with a certain Otago trainer recently he told me that some years ago when mentor to a rather successful two-year-old, he got a great knock-back by the running of the said youngster in Christchurch, and that he -had not, up to the day <m which he mentioned the matter to me, [yet given up the notion that he had been the ijvietim to the machinations of the rider on f jfchat occasion. Similar things happen in it would appear, judging from ,&he following extract: 'It will come as a shock to Sam toates to see the California!! goekeyß closely shut up between races, and kinder lock and key. There they are kept— pQ for their ewn good, of course — innocent of what they are to ride till escorted from the cage to the weighing entelowre, and thence into the saddle. Amen'fcans hold that fielders, backers, agents, and feoute are as hurtful to young 'crouehers"s knorals as they are to his master's racing pocket, and so they -take the bull by the Corns, and duly cage tip the youngsters during all intervals of racing." Commenting on this drastic "reform," "Martindale" eaya : Just fancy the hard things that would te said, if our A.J.C., at the coming autumn meeting, locked the boys up in the topmost room of the scratching tower, and ©nly allowed them out to mount their horse, and go to the post. Some of our leading punterß, and a few of the "books," might find it a more difficult matter to make «noney than they do now.