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| STEWARDS SUSPEND ] j MEADE AND FISHER ; LOUISVILLE, Ky., May 8— As a result of the unfair tactics they employed while riding Brokers Tip and Head Play in the Kentucky Derby here Saturday, jockeys Donald Meade and Herbert Fisher, will spend a long period on the ground. After a careful investigation, during which they had Fisher, Meade and other riders who had mounts in the Derby before them, the stewards decided that each boy was guilty of grasping the equipment of the other and suspended each for thirty calendar days. Fisher was given j an additional five days for assaulting Meade in the jockeys quarters after the race. Meade had the mount on the winner — Brokers Tip — owned by Col. E. R. Bradley, and Fisher was astride Head Play, the starter of Mrs. Silas B. Mason, which lost the race by a nose. The ruling of stewards C. F. Price, C. Bruce Head, T. C. Bradley and E. Hogge I read as follows: "The stewards, after a careful investiga- I tion, including a hearinar of jockeys H. W. j Fisher and D. Meade, have suspended each j for thirty calendar days for rough tactics i during the stretch running of the Kentucky I Derby. Each boy, according to the evidence and observation, was guilty of grasping the equipment of the other. Jockey Fisher was given an additional five days for assaulting ! jockey Meade in the jockeys quarters after the running of the race. Signed THE STEWARDS." Under the rule; Fisher and Meade were privileged to fill their engagements today. The rules specify that riders not suspended for fraud may fill engagements for one day j following any action against them. The ruling will not prevent Meade, who received 10 per cent of the 8,925 Derby purse for his winning ride, from riding Brokers Tip in the Preakness or subsequent stakes, during the period of the suspension, the Kentucky rules permitting such concession for jockeys under contract or written engagement for a stakes. Fisher had not been engaged to ride Head Play in the Preakness, trainer T. P. Hayes announcing yesterday that A. Robertson or C. Corbett will handle the Mason colt in the Pimlico race. Had Fisher been engaged for the Preak- ! ness he could have filled the engagement. Following the fourth race the stewards, who have been very active during the meeting, suspended Karl Horvath for five days. Horvath failed to keep Far Star straight shortly after the start.
