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FINED FOR "CHEATING THE HANDICAPPER." The Austrian representative of the London Sportsman tells of an occurrence at Vienna that is apt to impress Americans who are opposed to having finishes intentionally drawn fine, though there are few jockeys of this day and time who are really capable of what in the days of Isaac Murphy, "Snapper" Garrison and Willie Martin we were want to call artistic. "I went over to Vienna last Sunday to see the Austria Prels," says the Austrian correspondent, "and it so fell out that a certain jockey won a race hands down by a neck. The stewards of the Austrian Jockey Club called the jockey before them. You won by a neck, couldnt you have won any further? they asked. "The jockey was delighted that he had found himself on such a good horse, and replied in a practical tone: I had always got them beat sir; I could have won by as far as I liked. "The retort of the stewards to this astonished him, as, if delivered in England, it would astonish an English jockey. Then, that shows you were trying to cheat the handicapper, and you are fined 10. I have no sort of wish to criticise the action of the Austrian Jockey Club stewards, but the jockey in question had no notion that in doing what he did he had done anything wrong. "A jockey in Austria was fined 5 by the stewards because he was not out one morning before breakfast to ride exercise, and on the whole the jockeys there appear to be treated somewhat drastically."
