Jockey Costume.— What, asks the '• Geelong Advertiser," constitutes a jockey costume? A very general opinion prevails that a jockey's costume consists of a salk jacket and cap, buckskin b'recehes and boots, but Green, the jockey who rode Little Dick at tke Wintei Steeplechase Meeting, denies that such is the case. Noticing lie had on. apparently a white linen shirt instead of a white jacket the weigher fined him £2, and when the stewards reminded Mr. Shepherd, the owner of the horse, of the penalty, he denied he had gone to scale in a shirt ; what Mr. Hinds took to-be a shirt was to all intents and purposes a jacket, and the Victoria Racing Club rules said nothing about a jacket being made of silk. He subsequently admitted the jacket had formerly been a shirt, but Green had cut the tails off it and fastened the body, of the shirt round hi 3
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Tuapeka Times, Volume VII, Issue 378, 1 August 1874, Page 3
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152Page 3 Advertisements Column 1 Tuapeka Times, Volume VII, Issue 378, 1 August 1874, Page 3
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