SEVERE RULES TOWARDS JOCKEYS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1628, 8 March 1884, Page 3

SEVERE RULES TOWARDS JOCKEYS.

The Jockey Club at Home do not intend to hold their hands at trainers' malpractices, as jockeys who gamble and own horses aro also marked. The Racing Calender of Jan. 3 has the following :—'Jockeys wishing to have their licenses to ride under the rules of racing renewed for 1884 arc requested to apply as early as possible, giving their christian names and full addresses to Messrs Weatheby, Tho stewards of the Jockey Club give notice that in future licenses will only be granted to jockeys on conditions thai they are not owners or part owners of any racehorse. Leave may be given, on special application, to jockeys to own one or more horses, but this permission will only be granted when the jockey is also a trainer, and the horse is to be trained in his own stable. It having been represented to the stewards of the Jockey Club that many jockeys are in the habit of betting largely on horscraciug, the stewards hereby give notico that such practices will not be tolerated in future; and that any jockey who may be reported to them for this offence, and who may be proved to the satisfaction of the stewards to have become engaged in betting transactions, will be liable to have his licence at once withdrawn."