26 MARCH 1932, Page 3

The Jockey Club's Appeal

All who know what the Jockey Club has done for many years past to insure that English racing shall be honour. ably and honestly conducted will note with satisfaction the Club's successful appeal against the verdict with heavy damages given against it in a recent libel action. A strong Court of Appeal on Tuesday held that the Stewards of the Jockey Club did no more than their duty in deciding that the trainer of a drugged horse should be warned off Newmarket Heath and in pub- lishing the decision in the Racing Calendar. " What was published was a decision of an agreed domestic tribunal in its own terms." It would have been unfortunate if the authority of that tribunal had not been reaffirmed by the Court of Appeal.

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