Horse. Snooker. Yorkshire Evening Post, Tuesday 16 May 1893

SPORTING NOTES.

The trotting meeting, decided at Morley yesterday, was productive of some excellent racing, the final heat of the Pony and Novice Horses Handicap being worth a long journey to witness. The winner, Fanny B., rather singular to say, only got into the final by somewhat of a fluke. The conditions of the race were that the winner of each preliminary heat and the two fastest losers trot in the final. In the second heat Dancing Boy was first, Snooker second, and Fanny B. third. Snooker’s jockey did not pass the scale before going to the post or after the race. This disregard of the rules led to the imposition of a fine of £1 and the disqualification of the horse— hence the presence of Fanny B. in the final heat.

In the open event—in the final heat of which Fanny B. finished second, and so secured the honours of the meeting —she was again a bit lucky to be returned the winner of a heat. Peaceable, hailing from Tidswell, had started the outsider of the competing trio in the third heat, but he had the race in hand some distance from home. For some reason he was eased, and Fanny B. won on sufferance, there was a big outcry from the public, and the stewards ordered the horse to be ridden over the course again by another jockey. His owner refused to allow this, so horse and rider were at once suspended, and disqualified from competing in the final heat, where they were entitled to start, the horse being one of the fastest losers.