Racing: Rude steward is demoted
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Your support makes all the difference.John Jenyns, the steward whose brusque treatment of two Channel 4 executives at York last month attracted widespread criticism, has been banned from acting as a chairman of stewards until 1999.
Jenyns subsequently resigned from the York stewards' panel and the Jockey Club disciplinary committee met on Monday to consider a letter of complaint from Channel 4 regarding the affair. The committee found Jenyns guilty of an error of judgment, which he admitted, and ruled it inappropriate for him to continue to act as chairman of the stewards' panel at Pontefract and Redcar.
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