New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-08-14

"The first requisite In good jockey Is cool
head. Don't get excited don't, in n close finish. get
ratified don't be scared because something Is trying
to catch you. Nine-tenths OF our boys never learn
TO keep COOL and therefore graduate ont OF the
second class. / agree with Mclaughlin that n
Jockey needs TO learn pace, finishing ana the use Oh
the whip before he will be worth anything ike a
decent salary. But he may have twenty times INV
experience and twenty times my knowledge, ana then,
II he loses his head or his nerve In close finish
n green apprentice will be able 10 beat him out
Another golden rule. which / have always followed
Is never 10 stop riding until ! have passed the
Judges A race Is won until the wire Is
reached
at is not difficult for a bright, wideawake boy
10 get a fair or an advantageous start sald
Taral continuing, provided lie has been properly
taught his business and docs not 60 10 sleep hkc
two or three celebrated gentlemen whom you ana
know o. OF course hOt-headed cranky. nervous
two-ycarold colt will raise the deuce at the post
and upset everything, but even at tmt, ne can
be brought to reason If the Jockey Will only Try 10
hnmor him. Two yearOh colts and hlies arr, after all,
like babies and they require Just the same amount
OF patience and delicacy In handling. 1t Is TACT"
said Taral with laugh, that the older jockeys, who
are fathers OF families, nearly always most sue
cessful with two-ycar-olds. Take Hayward or Tom
Cannon or George Fordham cases In point. FER
haps long practice in pacing the moor at high'6 may
have something TO do with II. For my own part
like TO break whenever possible from the rear
though ! don't like to De too far behind my held'
II | can get my mount about two lengths GIhhd,
drive him forward and break just as the Others are
all In notion so much the better but then no two
horses are alike either In temper or characteristics
Some like Locohatchee and Lamplghtcr, are slow
at the mark Others, like Correction, flash OH ike
ghosts Altogether getting good fair equitable
start is the least of the difficulties jockey has 10
contend with.
trat 10 m u
self 10 find Just how last or how SLOW We are lu h
a half mile, as do u know how mnch my morse mas
got IN him. a yoa 1 hoTa and before yon have
a quarter of mile you Will know whether you ough.
to be In fon1 OF E yEar e mount moves an expert
enccd Jockey will know where he Is likely u be AZ i
opponents j can generally tell whom have got to
beat and who will beat me before have gone tlree
eghts In mile daGe AMI ever e on nj nn And yet
although always gauge the tine of RAJ" or OF an
part Of il pretty accurately, don't advertise myself
10 low 10 waiti Well that is difficult TO answer
1t all rest: upon horse some horse, VIII rr no, r a%s
coddled until 1t Is time to make an effort Others--
we'll look here each race differs fom every 1 %, t
II am riding long race and have n good, game
horse who can stay and 60 ait ana stand dve S Sae III
tho start and send him along, not irving ~ take TOO
much out Of him. but keeping him well IN hand: II D,
will go to pieces Mt pinch the best plan, OF course,
4, To steal three lengths away al the start ana never
let ANYTHING get near him. In trying 3, win a long
race with on.stayer judgment OF pace comes IN
| handy Then. Of course, you have u follow Marty
Bergens tactics with loantaka. Lie In the rear OF
the field patiently sit sun while after another
comes back 70 you until the three or f3nr whom you
have got TO beat left In It. Nurse him until you
have something left to finish with in the stretch and
let his speed serve to get him home. But there arr
n hundred ways OF riding waiting race and 1t would
take me all day 10 describe them" -
Like Mclaughlin. Taml has horror OF the whip
although he admitted that it had It's uses Is special a
all adopted Mr. Campbells rule In regard 10
| lightweight boys" he said He viii never allow a
boz to touch a horse with the whip. Stevenson Is
forced TO ride with his hands. The man with whom
! served my time did not give me whip uhll had
been years In the saddle and had learned how Ia
II were to talk from TIL midnight remarked
Tara In closing, as, dressed In Michael DIVERS cooi
he walked over TO where Kingston WAS waiting to
fight his old foe Tenny, could not exhaust the sub
respect another from his fellows. Every race has
its own peculiar circumstances features, history
from all those that have preceded IT, or those that
follow II, and the jockey. whatever his skill or ex
| pcrience must adapt himself quickly TO the change
| Therein lies the secret OF his success"
| The name OF william Hayward recalls many aiec
| ti0nae memories, especially among the older and
| better school Of racing men, HAYWARD was In IN.
zenith OF his fame and doing brilliant Work when many
| now coitemptuousy refer TO him back number
were in their cradles. That Hayward should be q
thorough master OF every technique OF TIE jockey
trained I'm the best OF all possible schools OF his
earliest employers being none other than Dawson
DAYS when poor tom" French the leading Joke,
for the Maybe colors. and won the Derby on King
craft and Favonius, and when Fred Archer was still
tiny stable boy, weighing seventy pound, or 80
csme 10 this County and In that time has
American turf grow and expand until 1t now over