"SCHOOLING" IN PUBLIC
In the September issue of the "English Jockey Club's "Racing Calendar" is a notice containing a very positive injunction against the apparently fairly prevalent practice in England of schooling horses in races.- ■ -,- -■- ■.••
"The stewards of the National Hunt Committee/ the notice says, "have had their attention directed to the frequency ■with which", Sf past, seasons, horses hare been run apparently with no other object, on the part of thdse.-xesponsible, than that of providing them -with a 'school' over the fences, -which is manifestly improper and irregular.. . _:.....
"Every horse taking, part in a race is presumed to he running .on his nierits ■witt* the object.of.*innin&;j£ possible, and the stewards give notice that, in future, any person who is reported to them as ha-ring run a"'-horse simply for 'schooling' purposes -n-ill be severely dealt ■with. . ; "Stewards: of meetings are requested to be particularly observant in this matter, and to fully exercise the powers conferred upon them by the rules of the National Hunt Committee."
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Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 125, 23 November 1932, Page 4
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165"SCHOOLING" IN PUBLIC Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 125, 23 November 1932, Page 4
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