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JOCKEYS BARRED FROM BETTING. One of the rules of Australian racing is that jockeys shall not bet, and provides that "any person betting with or for any jockey 6r rider mav be lined or disqualified or warned off the course." Underthis rule the Victorian rider. E. Turner, struck trouble at Sandown Park on Saturday last when the stipendiary stewards fined him 0 for making a wager with a well known member of the ring in Mr. 1. Ether-idge, who was also mulct in a like manner for his association in what both would be expected to know was a joint infringement of the rules which control their respective professions. That the fact of jockevs being prohibited from betting is a sutlicient reason to assume that none of them do bet is hardly likelv to be accepted by all followers of racing: but that the order of prohibition lias a good effect is proved by the few instances in which they are found openly betting for themselves, and perhaps this is all that the framing of the rule can ever reasonably be. expected to attain. Sydney Referee.
