Riot at a Paris Race Meeting.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 23 September 1890, Page 2

Riot at a Paris Race Meeting.

A serious riot, in which bettingmen were the ringleaders, occurred at Pans on July 28rd at the race meeting. Of the fourteen horses engaged in the second race only one passed the winning-post* In the third raoe there was only one startfr. The peop'e on the course thereupon lost all patience, and, not content with hooting at the jockeys, broke down the fonco round the enclosure. shouting, %< Down with the thieves."

The officials with great d.ffi ul y prweut^d per onal yd ence. M.-.ny pvip'e subsequently went to ai adjoining field, and collected hay, wit i which they kotked the coinse, setting it on tire. Tli3 polic- relanguished the flames, and after order ha? been restored the starter attempted to desp-i eh the h rses for the Prix des Artilleurs The crowd, however, collected at the starting point, and b ocked the cour c They were dispersed by the police, but ■when the race started about four hundred collected at a bend in tliu course, over which they placed various obstacles. The jockeys rode home at a walking pace, followed by a heoting crowd. It w.is deeded (o abandon the meeting, and when this became known the people dispersed. A number of arrests were j made.