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! Hollywood Stewards Ordered to Give 10 Days for Rough Riding HOLLYWOOD PARK, Inglewood, Calif., May 31.— The Hollywood Park board of stewards was today ordered by the California Horse Racing Board to adopt a policy of a minimum penalty of 10 days on the ground for jockeys found guilty of careless or rough riding. This rule is to stay in effect until June 18, at which time the racing board will meet and decide whether or not to make it permanent. The board said that this ruling was fostered by the Jockeys Guild. Members of the board issuing the directive to the stewards today were chairman Dwight Murphy and J. H. Sattler. The stewards pointed out to the commissioners as they previously had done to representatives of the Jockeys Guild, that they considered 10 days too seyere a penalty for infractions that were unintentional or due to carelessness and which did not endanger any riders or affect any results. The ruling was immediately put into effect. First rider to be affected by it was Johnny Longden.
