TURF PROBLEM
CAN WOMAN JOCKEY BENEFIT BY MAN’S RULES? PECULIAR FINISH TO RACE Times Cable. LONDON, Monday. The National Hunt Committee will be the final arbiter in the case of Miss Jean Sanday, who mounted a horse named The Breezer, in a steeplechase at Haydock Park after it had thrown its rider. She finished the race on its back, and the point now is whether the horse is entitled to be placed second in the event. Miss Sanday’s father not only trained but owned The Breezer. The problem might have gone to the House of Lords had the committee not consented to deal With it. Any man duly qualified under the conditions of an actual race and able to make the proper weight is entitled to replace a disabled jockej\ It is a man-made rule and does not specifically debar a woman, but it says: “Any person may remount provided that he,” etc. There is no mention of “she.”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 864, 7 January 1930, Page 9
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159TURF PROBLEM Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 864, 7 January 1930, Page 9
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