New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-08-27
BETTING TRAINERS AND JOCKEYS.
From T he London Fieid.

From T he London Fieid.
In AL probability not 4 single individual whO had
n sovereign st.ked at GoodwOOd harbors the falntes
misgiy ings that Lord Ellcsmere was conscious
and consuming party TO any iraud IN connection
with Iowland Chef. What may be the geheId
opinion as TO Charles Archer, the trainer OF the IN
cuDated horse. It is none OF our business 10 sur
mise but we have not the least hesitation III te-
affirming our opinion that nODlemeu ana genueueu
OF honor " become rarer and rarer upOu the turf,
If they begin to suspect that IL Is uHhcui "
find trainer or a jockey VINO docs uOt speS",ate
largely upon races. To this complexion we 90 NOT
thin that ~ vet the turf has come Tor, althOugn
there has never been jockey or trainer VINO diu
not bet at ALL it Is we'll known that the resDecta9le
members OF these two classes are satlshed 10 MAKE
small iuy estments and to do 80 through the agency
Of the owners whose horses they train or ride II,
however the turf ever gets TO the condition OF
being manly supported by rich horse owners whO'
being dummies. provide aud keep animals at heavy
expense for their servants to manipulate ana make
money ont of-not in tens AMI hundreds but oy
thousands and tens OF thousands-we are OK one
mind with that American gentleman VINO, having
closely watched our race-cOurses ana the system
Of racing and OF betting prevailing upon t-cui'
pfOpheSes that ere long horseraclug Will cease 10
he patroniled by the upper classes Before we pro-
coed To comment upon the practice OF running
horses without their being meant or having
their head, loose being on the Job, II IS Ovt
far 10 admit that 10 Is old as the turt itself ~
is alluded 10 distinctly IN BurtOnS Anatomy OF
Melancholy which WAS first published IN iO-I
and Pulteney's paper on NewmarSet-cohtrlpuIeu
TO / he UOYf newspaper when. about ~, IL vas
the organ Of the witty Lord Chesterfield: DOCK
called =. The Jockey Club: or q sketch OF the
Manners of the Age" published in ~, IS Iull Oh
aliusiOns 10 instructions gwen TO their Jockeys oy
DO erfI and wealthy patrons OF he tart, men 90
Ear to show that low indeed must he the nioraty OF
racing men ut this moment II It be worse than that
of our fOrefathers when George the Ihird was
King Every student of racing Literature - aware
what scandal was created by the conflicting run
ming of the Prince Regents Escape at Newmarket
i'm the October Of I79l-a scandal from the talnt or
which sam Chfney the elder was ne. er able to
emancipate himself wholly until bis dying hour
came. a.,
Turning 70 our own times. have Ne not the last
letter upon racin matters ever written by the late
Earl of Derby before he died in 1859, TO warn US
against the increase of the temptations to frand,
occaslOned by handicaps, " hch he had seen IN N
timef II il idle to blink a truth which IS Well
known TO hGh and low alike that not single race
meeting occurs in the course of the year at winch
horses are not deliberately pulled by order OF their
owners. The case. however, l. very different Wnen
Jockeys pull horses belonging to others without tne
KNOWLEDGE or cOnDvance of the owners OF those
horses. or upOn the receipt OF instructions com
municated bv trainers, of which instructions the
owner himself j. ignorant 10 what extent ras-
calty Of this kind is perpetrated at present upon
the turf It IS impossible to say; but we suspect
that much more OF it goes THAI IS dreamJ OF IN
the philosophy of many. IL IL notorious that
within the last ten fifteen years larger iort unes
! have been made by trainers and by Jockeys IMAM
were acquired by their predecessors IN any previous
age anu there is too much ieason 70 belleVe tnat III
| many cases a Jockey and trainer have hunted III
! couples to the detrnent OF their common employer