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RINGING CASE IN FRANCE Horeb, Winner of 1920 Prix dEssai, Used as a Maiden at St. Cloud Trainers Lose Licenses. FARIS. France, August 4. The commissioners of the Society for the Encouragement of Horse Racing and Breeding have just rendered an interesting decision in a peculiar case of "ringing." The inquiry was held relative to the running of the two-year-old colt Horeb, by Hebron La Rise II., which won the Prix dEssai on June 2! at Maisons-La-fittc and of Le Morier, a two-year-old colt, by Saint Just La Massiere, which ran unplaced in the Prix de Nozay on July 18, also at Maisons-Lafittc. Both colts are owned by M. Tranquiile Tabard and, with, four others, were shipped on April 30 by trainer Francois Grumetz to the training quarters of the English trainer George Cunnington, Jr. Cunningtou asserted that Grumetz did not forward sufficient data for the identification of the various colts and that, in consequence, Horeb and Le Morier got mixed and were started in the wrong races. The commissioners might have accepted this explanation, but evidence was produced show- ! ing that both trainers had guilty knowledge of the "ringing" and again ran Horeb under the name I of Le Morier in the Prix Dolma-Baghtche at .St. Cloud on July 10, which he won. It was at the latter race tiie stewards noticed the deception and j called for the trial. While the commissioners did not find the owner. I Tranquiile Tabard, to have any knowledge of the change of colts, they censund him for not exei- i rising better supervision over his trainers and ordered him to refund ,720, the amount of prize I money won by Horeb. . Mr. Henry ruse, the 1 breeder of the colt, was ordered to refund 00 received by him as breeder, and the trainers Gru-mtz and Cunnington, Jr., were each fiued 00 and hud their licenses canceled.
