JOCKEYS’ APPEALS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 September 1940, Page 3

JOCKEYS’ APPEALS

THREE UPHELD. The result of appeals by five jockeys against the decision of the executive committee of the New Zealand Racing Conference in granting them for the 1940-41 racing season three months' conditional jockey's licences to expire on October 31. 1940, was announced last night. The appeals of Percy Burgess, Arthur Ernest Didham and George Ronald Tattersail were upheld, and the executive committee is to be directed to issue to them jockeys’ licences to expire on July 31. 1941. The appeals of William James Broughton and Harold Norman Wiggins were dismissed, and the judges ordered that in each case £lO, the amount lodged on the appeal, be retained by the conference. The judges were Messrs W. Perry, F. R. Kelly and G. R. Macdonald. In all five cases their decisions were unanimous.

In all cases the judges found that the executive committee had power under rules 79 and 82 of the Rules of Racing to grant conditional jockeys' licences to expire on October 31, 1940. In the cases of Burgess. Didham and Tattersail, however. they found that the power should not have been exercised. The appeals were lodged under rule 73 (2). The judges heard evidence on behalf of the appellants and on behalf of the executive committee as provided in rule 370 (1).