JOCKEYS AND PUNTERS
Queensland's new stewards have created a Btir among, a number of prominent jockeys by questioning one of them concerning his dealings with a professional punter. The stewards have definitely announced that they will deal . harshly with any rider found working in with men of that class.
One of the scandals associated with the Queensland Turf for the last couple of years has been the buying of favourable mounts by prominent'jockeys' who have big betting men. behind them? It often suits a battling trainer to have the odds of £20 laid to him, provided he will give a certain boy the mount . on his. horse. Some profited by such dealings, butfothers found they were being used—merely as dupes for deeply-laid schemes..,.. More than one trainer, after agreeing "to: such a proposition, has had grave'efoubts about whether his horse was allowed to do its best.
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 72, 27 March 1933, Page 4
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146JOCKEYS AND PUNTERS Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 72, 27 March 1933, Page 4
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