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LEOOBA I.OBING. Annually in the coarse of racing disqualifications due to one cause and another, principally to foul riding, are common enough, but no case involving so much money and based on such technical grounds as the decision disqualifying Leonora Loring as the winner of the Great Filly Stakes has ever before marked the history of racing in this country. Major .B. G. Thomas made tho nomination and in doing so noglected to state that Leonora Lorings dam was partly, or wholly, the property of Dr. T. H. Burch of New York, and it is because of this neglect that the stewards of the Coney Island Jockey Club have sustained Jere Dunns appeal and disqualified Leonora Loring, giving the race to Blue Girl. Concerning the case a New Yorf exchange of Thursday says: "Leonora Loring, which won the Great Filly Stakes at Sheepshead Bay, has been disqualified and thestakes awarded to Blue Girl. "The stewards of the meeting of the Coney Island Jockey Club, J. G. Follanebee, F. B. Hitchcock and Jesse Brown, held a meeting at tho Gravesend courEe yesterday. The protest of Jore Dunn against Leonora Loring was officially discussed, testimony on both sides was taken, and the following official notice made public : The stewards of the Coney Island Jockey Club meeting rendered the following decision.of the Leonora Loring case this afternoon : In the matter of the protest lodgod by Jere Dunn against the filly Leonora Loring in the Great Filly Stakes at the Coney Island Jockey Club course on Saturday, September 7, 1901, on the ground that she was not properly entered under Rule 50 of the Rules of Racing, the stewards of the meeting sustain the protest and disqualify Leonora Loring under Rule 142. section 5, subdivision A. The rule referred to says that an objection may be made to a horse on the ground of misstatement, omission or error in the entry undor which a horse has run. "AU the evidence in the case sustained Jere Dunns contention that Leonora Loring had been improperly entered for the stakes, and the stewards could not rendor any other decision. It was proved that Dr. T. H. Burch had an interest in the filly when she was nominated, as he owned tho dam, Hoyden. "Major Thomas made a mistako in not naming Dr. Burch as co-nominator. But it was a mistako that was unintentional.. Major ThomaB testified that he had nominated tho.filly, with several others, for the stakes, without giving a thought to the rulo governing such nominations. "It is probable, that a protest would never have been lodged againBt Leonora Loring had Dr. Burch refrained from notifying the officials of the Coney Island Jockey Club not to pay the 00 which was to go to the nominator to Major Thomas. That caused all the talk and led to the protost. "The objection to Leonora Loring waB based on a purely technical point in the rules, and the decision of the stewards is based solely ou tho omission of Dr. Burchs name as a co-nominator. "The stewards of the meeting construed tho rule to govern the caBe and made their decision in accord. Mr. Myers has appealed the case to the Board of Stewards of the Jockey Club, taking advantage of the provisions of rule 134 of the Rules of Racing, which reads: Rule 184. Every objection shall be decided by the stewards, but their decisions shall be subject to appeal and the stewards of the Jockey Club, so far as relates to points involving the interpretation of these rules, or to any question other than a question of fact. . "Mr. Myers feels his position keenly. So far as he is concerned, he was not in the least responsible for the omission in the original notea and had no means of knowing that there had been a mistake. When Mr. Myers bought the filly as a yearling ho accepted her engagements, among them that in the Great Filly Stakes. Tho nomination to that stake was made two years ago. Mr. Myers says he is at loss to understand why, durirfg all that ,time, no one raised the question of irregularity. "It is said on good authority that Mr. Whitney, tho owner of Blue Girl, has intimated that he will not accept the money which goes to the horse placed first. It is understood that Mr. Whitney does not wish to profit by a technicality. He was dissatisfied with Shaws ride on Blue Girl, and asked the stewards of the meeting to inquire into the race. But he iwas not prompted to the request by the fact thatho had lost the money. "li the stewards of the Jockey Club .sustain, tho decision of the Coney Island stewards, the money will be placed to Mr. Whitneyscredit on the books of the association. Hejwill be compelled to accept it or make soma use of it. "It was said yesterday that, if forced to take the money, Mr. Whitney would probablyjdonate it to some charity, perhaps endow a bod in some hospital for the benefit of jockeys andjtrainers. "Under the new placing, should the appeal made by Mr. Myers fail, Blue Girl will receive first money, Sun Shower second money, and Par Excellence third money."
