2017 Elsevier Inc. We investigate the following conjecture of Hehui Wu: for every tournament S, the class of S-free tournaments has bounded domination number. We show that the conjecture is false in general, but true when S is 2-colourable (that is, its vertex set can be partitioned into two transitive sets); the latter follows by a direct application of VC-dimension. Our goal is to go beyond this; we give a non-2-colourable tournament S that satisfies the conjecture. The key ingredient here (perhaps more interesting than the result itself) is that we overcome the unboundedness of the VC-dimension by showing that the set of shattered sets is sparse.
