A NOVEL PROSECUTION.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 83, 8 December 1913, Page 6

A NOVEL PROSECUTION.

EXERCISING HORSES. At the Newmarket (N.S.W.) Police Court recently, Patrick Brennan and Charles Robson' (horsetrainers), William Welton, Thomas Mitten,, and 'John Stewart (jockeys), were proceeded against on an information charging them with having,"on November 12, in .Fern-street, Islington, ridden horses for the purpose of exercising them other than by passing through the street. The evidence of Senior-constahle Turn bull was that the defendants, each riding a racehorse, proceeded over Fern street into other streets, and back again, several times within half an hour. Mr J.Windoyer (who appeared for the defendants).submitted that passing through the. street was not meant to apply to persons who went out of the street. The Legislature meant it to apply to persons riding horses up and down the streets.

Mr M'Kell, S.M.: You mean that to.iriake.it an, offence, they would have to so to the end-, of the street and back again ?

Sub-inspector M'Hardy said the horses were ridden round, and. round for exercise, without any definite destination. The S.M.: There is no doubt they were there for exercise/ but many things are overlooked. ,He had seen horses being exercised in the streets. —in fact, broken in. it was rather a ticklish point, and he dismissed the cases.