LIVELY JOCKEYS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1773, 7 August 1888, Page 3

LIVELY JOCKEYS.

At a race meeting held by the Brooklyn Jockey Club in May, a lively scene, in which several leading American riders took part, was enacted in the jockeys’ dressing room. It appears that Mr J. D. Morrissey’s trainer asked the celebrated * Snapper’ Garrison to ride a horse called Kaloolah, informing him in answer to a question as to why the stable jockey, Fitzpatrick, could not ride, that the latter was too heavy. Immediately after Garrison had accepted the mount Fitzpatrick met him in the dressing room and hit him a severe blow on the face. Garrison let fly in return, and his valet joining in the melee, another jockey, F. M’Laughlin, made matters even by throwing in his lot on Fitzpatrick’s side. The celebrated J. M’Laughlin determined on taking a hand in support of his brother, and as J. M'Laugbliu’s val«4l yallj supported his master the Garrison party was severely stormed. The next addition to the belligerent party was a huge nigger, who endeavoured to restore the failing fortunes of the Garrison party, and, as frequently happens in the case of a brawl, a would-be peace maker, a trainer named Cook, was the most severely punished of the whole crowd. The disgraceful proceedings were stopped after a time and the offenders taken iu hand by the Jockey Club officials, with the result that Garrison Fitzpatrick, and F. M’Laughlin were suspended for the day. At a subsequent inquiry by tbe Bxeeutive Committee Garrison and Fitzpatrick were fined 250 dol. each and prohibited from riding for any other than their own stables for the rest of the year. From what can be gathered Garrison appears to have been the uni ucky one, and the least blameable of the participants in the brawl.