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APPEALS DECIDED. Tho Committee on Appeals of the American Turf Congress has rendered the following decisions in cases appealed from various members of the Turf Congress. The most important case is that affecting jockey Rose and employer W. Clancy. Tho decision is as follows : In the controversy between J. J. Smith and W. Clancy over the services of the boy Lee Rose, the committee rendered the following opinion : "In the case of the jockey Lee Andrew Rose, we are of the opinion tnat J. J. Smith is legally entitled to his services, and it is ordered that W. Clancy be fined 00 and relinquish his claim upon the boy ; and it is further ordered that the jockey Rose be notified to at once return to the service of J. J. Smith." At tho spring meeting of the Louisville Jockey Club W. Gallagher, part owner of the b. c, Patroon, 4 year-old, by Patron Madie, entered said horse in a race to be run on May 4th. and after time to declare Gallagher requested the judges, U. F. Price and L. P. Tarlton, to excuse the horse. After an examination of tho norse and being fully satisfied that he was not liime, as claimed by Gallagher, the judges ordered Gallagher to start tho horse, Gallagher refused to do so and the judges ruled Gallagher and the horse off. The Committee on Appeals sustained the judges. In the controversy between F. M. Arthur and the Queen City Jockey Club over the payment of entrance fees, the committee decided that the Queen City Jockoy Club was entitled to the 5 held by tho Chicago Racing Association. Tho case of James Robinson, who was ruled off last winter by the Crescent City Jockoy Club, was referred back to said club for action.
