Cox v. National Jockey Club

Mr. PRESIDING JUSTICE ADESKO

delivered the opinion of the court:

This is an interlocutory appeal from an order of the trial court granting the plaintiff’s request for a preliminary injunction against the defendants. This appeal is brought pursuant to Illinois Supreme Court Rule 307(a)(1) (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1973, ch. 110A, par. 307(a)(1)).

Plaintiff, Roger Cox, is a jockey and brought suit against the defendants seeking injunctive relief. Plaintiff sought an order which would prohibit the defendants from excluding him from participating as a jockey in a thoroughbred horse racing meet to be…