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JOCKEY LOSES LAWSUIT French Court Refuses Damages to Rider for Statement by Employers. Thibault, the French jockey, has been nonsuited and ordered to pay costs by the First Chamber of the Civil Tribunal of the Seine in an action for 200,000 francs damages against his former employers, M. Robert Bollack and Henri Coulon, for having pub- 1 lished a note in the spring press declaring i that their horse, Hercs XII., ridden by Thibault, had not run properly in the Prix Lord Loris at Enghein on May 20, 1921, and announcing that Thibault would not be permitted to ride the horse in its future entries. After hearing arguments from Robert Bernstein, for the jockey, and Paul Guillain, for the owners, M. Gatine, the presiding judge, gave a decision against the jockey on the ground that the horse, after starting prime favorite, had come in at the tail end of the bunch, notoriously because it had been pulled, and that the owners were perfectly justified in publishing the announcement complained of.
