JOCKEYS’ STRIKE

Hokitika Guardian, 2 December 1930, Page 7

JOCKEYS’ STRIKE

' FOR SAFER RACING. (Australian Press Association) SYDNEY, November 30. The jockeys engaged in the last race at Mdorefield Park races yesterday, the Carltoli Mile Handicap, went oil strike until the field was reduced to eighteen, stating that otherwise racing would be unsafe. An inquiry will he held into the jockeys’ strike tomorrow. The field in the Carlton Mile was originally twenty-two, to which the jockeys objected, as being top many for a small course like Moorefield, which has been the scene of many former accidents, owing to overcrowding. Several seratehiugs;had reduced to number nineteen, and the Committee' declined to listen , to the jockeys’ appeal for a further reduction. As a result of this there was a twenty minutes’ delay. Finally the owner of Ralston obligingly scratched his horse, thus reducing the field to eighteen, and complying with the jockeys’ demands, and the race was run. . ...

SYDNEY JOCKEYS’ STRIKE. " SYDNEY, December.!. Arising out of the jockeys’... strike at Moorebeld races on Saturday, an inquiry was held at the Australian Jockey Club l offices to-day i when, after receiving an expression of regret from the jockeys concerned, the Stipendiary Stewards decided to take .no action. It is undertsood that a; petition is being prepared hv the jockeys, asking that there should be some limitation on the field on the suburban courses. T -v