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for trainer
Bedwell. Pimlico president Charles E. McLane then supported Bedwell and the Maryland State Racing Commission threatened to ban members of The Jockey Club from competing in Maryland. The Commission stood its ground and on June 30, 1921, amended their temporary order to grant Shilling a
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reported that Ross had successfully petitioned the
Maryland State Racing Commission to lift the ban on Shilling and grant him a temporary jockey's license. The Maryland Jockey Club revolted against the decision and the matter became a major public embarrassment for racing when a mob at
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said had the effect of making any license issued by the
Commission of doubtful value because the resolution declared its licenses not to be a mandate to any of Maryland's racetracks. The effect of the resolution was that Carroll Shilling never rode again and his ordeal led to a severe
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Shilling reinstated. Bedwell, the Ross stable trainer, had testified before the Maryland State Racing Commission in support of Shilling and he too would become a central figure in the controversy. The April 21, 1921 issue of
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Belmont to Ross saying "the entries of your stable will not be acceptable to this association if ex-Jockey Carroll Shilling or H. G. Bedwell is in any way connected, directly or indirectly, with the same."
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Shilling won 969 races and in his final three seasons, had a remarkable thirty-four percent winning percentage. In 1970, the National Museum of Racing at
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permanent jockey's license. However, the
Commission gave in to the unrelenting political pressure to end the inter-state dispute and on July 9, 1921 it passed a resolution that
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Following his ban from riding, Shilling remained in racing as a stableman and in 1915 his application for a jockey's license was again denied. He eventually went to work for
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