A HINT TO JOCKEY CLUBS.

Evening Star, Issue 4127, 19 May 1876, Page 4

A HINT TO JOCKEY CLUBS.

At the races held at Tabot the other week, a horse, the winner of a selling race, duly advertised to be sold, was put up for sale (says the * Clunes Guardian’) by the secretary of. the race club. A reserve of LlO was put upon the animal, and the sum was promptly bid by the owner, a well-known resident of Lexton. A by-stander 'amongst the crowd named Phillips bid Lll, and upon the horse being passed forward as sold, im--mediately claimed his bargain. The secretary and members of the race committee present refused to accept the higher bid. Phillips, however,, stuck to the horse, and was ultimately given in charge for illegal detention of the animal. When Mr Dowling, P.M., adjudicated upon the matter, he immediately ordered Puillips to be released, and severely commented upon the police having arrested the man, and a very pretty action for false imprisonment seemed likely to eventuate. At the court, however, the case appeared in another form by the police summoning the secretary of the race tlub for acting as an auctioneer without a license, Phillips, who was summoned as a witness, stated that he had “ squared” the dispute concerning the horse by accepting from a pro minent member of the race committee the sum of L2 as compensation. The race club secretary, with the greatest naivete, openly stated that it was merely intended to go through the “form” of a sale in order to pass the horse over to the owners The presiding magistrates, Messrs Dowling, P.M., and Wilkinson, J.P., fined the defendant L2 and coats, remarking that no doubt he had aated in the presumed interest of the race club, or the fine would have been much heavier.