A VENDETTA
DOINGS IN FRANCE SCANLON GIVEN A FALL W. Scanlon, the Victorian jockey, who rode in Paris successfully on April 22, has been the victim of a sensational incident in a race, believed to be the result of organisation by French jockeys against Australians and Englishmen. The French racing authorities have ordered a full inquiry, believing that a revival of the vendetta against foreign jockeys from which Steve Donoghue suffered in 1922, is at present operating against the Australians, Scanlon and E. Simmons, and two English jockeys. Scanlon was riding the favourite, Carmosa, trained by Frank Bullock and owned by M. Wittouck. He was about to come through, when the leading filly suddenly swerved, bringing down Cavmosa, flinging Scanlon through the rails, and hampering an English horse ridden by an English jockey. The stewards suspended the offending jockey. An additional inquiry was held, as the result of a prominent racing man making a statement that he overheard French jockeys plotting to bring down Scanlon. It was also alleged that Scanlon has offended the Jockeys’ Trades Union by winning a former race which was regarded as a good thing for a French jockey’s mount, after which he was warned that if an “accident” happened to him it would be his own fault.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 978, 22 May 1930, Page 14
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212A VENDETTA Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 978, 22 May 1930, Page 14
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