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JOCKEYS AND TRAINERS RULED OFF CONNEAUT LAKE PA1MC Fa June 14 Pre ¬ siding judge Fred W Gerhardy startled turfmen and racegoers hero Saturday afternoon when he promulgated one of the most sensational and widest blanketing ruling made public property by a racing official for many years Six jockeys two valets one handbook maker and a trainer were either ruled off the turf or indefinitely suspended for dis ¬ honesty and malicious contraventions of the rules of racing racingThe The rulings followed an investigation that covered the greater part of the meeting here and it was not until the official was thoroughly convinced that the horseman jockeys and handbook maker were in collusion to corrupt racing that he issued the sen ¬ sationally drastic edict edictThe The following is a list of the rulings Jockeys C Eames and W Franklin ruled off the turf jockeys W Hughes and P Sanford indefinitely suspended W Winkler indefinitely suspended The latter had been warned away from the track for creating a disturbance in the jockeys room some days before the meeting ended jockey Claude Hunt indefinitely suspended II Davis alleged to have been an ac ¬ complice of jockey Hunt and valet G Curly Mutrie ruled off the turf Davis it is said ac ¬ companied Hunt and Mutrie to Toronto where the Dtifferin Park meeting is in progress Carl Drake indefinitely suspended Drake was trainer of the II W Moore stable one of the most successful be ¬ ing campaigned on the circuit and Includes such good performers as Sabretash Versailles Kainbow Girl and others othersValet Valet Tom Timnierman who was in the employ of jockey C Eamcs was warned away from the track It is said the officials are still investi ¬ gating several cases and that more rulings may be forthcoming
