SHORT STIRRUPS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1812, 26 July 1913, Page 5

SHORT STIRRUPS.

AND TRAINERS' "RINGS." JUDGE'S COMMENTS. IN WOOTTON-SIEVIERCASE. By Telegraph—Press Association—Oopyriirht London, July 21. Mr. Justice- Darling, in summing up in the Wootton-Siovicr libel case, said there was no direct evidence of a trainers' "ring." Ho commented on tho fact that Wootton's stablo hud betted enormous sums through a commission agent, who had settled up privately. Frank Wootton's ability to make large sum 3 of money was a great temptation to him to ride foully, though probably short stirrups were largely tho cause of his alleged malpractices. His Lordship hoped, for the credit of tho Turf, that the authorities would abolish short stirrnps. Taylor, the ex-Jockey, who gave evidence against Wootton, and stated that when he rode Mitral at Kerapton Park in December, 1907, Wootton, sen., had told him that if ho found Mitral going strong to run him wide at the turns, was a poor man, out of work, but apart from that the Court had noted that Mitral had lost when the stablo did not back him, and won when it did back him. The jury, in a rider, drew attention to the Judge's remarks about short stirrups. "THE STATE OF THE TURF." "TIMES" REVIEWS THE CASE. (Sydney "Sun" Special.) London, July 24. The "Times," in a leader on "The State of the Turf," says: "If we accept tho verdict of the jury as a just' presentation of facts, it is an unsatisfactory comment OE the state of racing in this country. A great point which it is possible to urge in favour of the Woottons is that they are so qualified by their undoubted talents to succeed in racing that it is almost inconceivable that they deliberately elected to run crooked." The "Times" urges the stewards of the Jockey 'Club to pay close attention to the so-called Foals Stakes.