The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-02-01
professional
New York Hour.

From the New York Hour.
From various training stables and FAC
ing establishments come complaints Of
the difficulty of obtaining and keeping
good lightweight or middle-weight boys
! 10 tide. No sooner has a lad acquired
the rudiments Of his art than he begins
to swagger, becomes intimate with the
turf sharpers, and in fact uses his best
! ~endeavors to get to the "demnition bow.
vows" with as little loss Of time as pos
I sible. At the end Of the racing season
! George L. Lorillard's trainer reengaged
Brennan, who rode very successfully
last wear, and also secured Mike Dono-
hue, the brother Of Billy" Much to
his surprise both lads proposed to spend
the winter in town. They were told
that, if they went to the city, they
| might consider themselves discharged,
and thew submitted with very poor
grace. Brennan maintained that he
wished 10 attend night-schoOl, but, as
Mr.. Lorillard has q model school at
Westbrook, the excuse failed to hold
water. e.
1Ir. Cassatt, Mr.. Kittson and a few
other owners have Obviated the diff
Guilty to a great extent by importing lads
from English racing stables. The Eng
land Of the National line, which on Tues
day brought Pierre Eorillard's pima
lore.' Touch me-Not" and "Siddar-
tina" also landed three lads who were
under engagement to him. One ofthem,
McEwen, is q very promising middle
weight, and has ridden some very fair
finishes in England. 1t is only rich own
ers, however, who can 90 TO the ex-
peRse attendant upon this course.
Other owners depend upon what lads
change brings into their way. White
lads are preferred, as the negroes,
though handy about horses, are asa role
too ignorant to learn anything but the
merest handiWOrk. The moment a boy
learns to ride fairly we'll, dangers beset
him. He is brought in contact with
sbarpers and book-makers' touts. An
owners stable secrets are made use Of
improperly and races which should
be won are frequently lost
through a deliberate violation of orders
how to ride. Once in the hands 'of
of John Mclaughlin, the brother Of the
noted Jimmy, ," is one in point. Two
years ago he pulled a race for certain
people; that placed them under his con
troll, as they threatened to expose him
if he refused tC remain under their or
ders. The system Of terrorism which
they exercised over the boy was 81
complete that Governor Bowie, who
had engaged him last spring once re-
marked that he supposed that Frank
would have pulled" every horse of his
in races for which ii might have been
a favorite had he had a chance.
An honorable c2zeer in the pigskin,
however. is very r~emunerative. Of
course such earnings as those of little
Martin, in England which foot up $25,
900 for this season alone, are uncommon
but nearly all our FIRST. class jockeys are
in more than comfortable circumstances.
Jimmy" Mclaughlin is worth between
$4,000 and 500, 900, and occupies a beau
tiful home in BROOKLYN with his wife
and two children. ''Billy" Dopohue lives
In bachelor apartments and has upward
OF $l0,0 900 slowed away" Costello, when
q small lad, was taken out of the house
of refuge by Wyndham Walden, who at
The time trained for George l.. Lorillard.
The boy was sent to Westbrook, where
he behaved admirably both in the
school and in the stable. With a natur-
al aptitude for the saddle, he was soon
allowed to ride in public, and did so
well that in a few years he supplanted
: Hughes as chief Jockey for the stable.
His father some years ago drove a Third
avenue car, The old man has now
been made comfortable by Tommy"
Costello still lives at Westbrook, where,
as he is too heavy to ride, he assists in
training. He is worth very nearly $780,
900. Isaac Murphy the colored Archer,
is feputed to be the richest of the pro.
f~ession, as his fortune exceeds 1000.
He has a fine farm in Kentucky. Feakes
owned a charming place on the New
Jersey coast, but when his wife died his
home was broken up. Hughes also has
a comfortable home, an interesting famr
! lily, and a snug little fortune in the bank.
Pat Meany, the famous steeplechase
rider, is one OF the richest men in Sara
toga county, and has a beautiful estate
1t the springs, where he spends The
winter. Barbee is in comfortable CIR
cumstances. Evans was once In welLto-
do circumstances, but some unfortunate
speculations cleaned him out.