SPORTING.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 65, 22 July 1913, Page 6

SPORTING.

WOOTTO.N t. SIEVIER,

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London, Jyly 21, la the case WCotton: versus Sievier, the Huxleya gafp ! evidence; stating that Woottoa nenp ordered .them to pull horses. |Uy| ' Sievier, in an |>|matidnai speech, said he wa« not thefi;l|s an spiel; liut, knowing something of "the bad side of the turf, he k|ew wheaohpraes were pulled and why|W}h werfe-poti backed. He aekod the jiffly to t i‘emcpiber WoOtton’s heavy winnings. He said this was a case where money spoke. ■William Baes gave evidence that he did not think Frank Wootton, in riding Stickup, the Cambridgeshire.

Taylor, an ex-jockey, gave evidence that he rode

Park in December, 1907. Wootton, (senior told him if he foum|#Wf%fl going strong to run him wide turn. Cross-examined, mitted that he was a heavy.; djdnker • *nd- was making a living^§» spying at trials from concealed p^i.tion® under hedges. ,11 ■" \

A Melbourne cablegram states that Lord Denman has purchased the steeplechaser Topmast, who will probably btt used as a hunter.