Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-02-10
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oLIEy OI ~ SurCWU CIOU~ U 49, |
Who Was Left with Sewn YosnG cAn-
dreu.-How She Managod 10 STAR TIE
Yoangsters In Life.
England isn't without her we'll known
bona fide racing women, and she has the
only woman traipsr IN tie world. She's the
last woman in the world you'd suspect Of
having Il hankering after horses, to look ut
her. She is Mrs. Chaloner, of Newmarket,
and in the racing world there isn't a better
known name than Chaloner-no, not even
the name of Falmouth among the swells or
Dawson among the professionals.
She comes of racing stock, and she was
born into and raised in the racing world.
She 10 q Yorkshire woman, n as a matter
Of course had an innate love for and under
standing of the horse. Her father was old
John Osborne, an old and we'll known train
er of Brecongin, in Yorkshire, and she
learned horses as she learned English. Her
brother is Johnnie Osborne. the Oldest Eng.
lish jockey able to ride.
It was a good sized family her father had,
and he entertained no fine notions about
giving his girls and boys advantages he
hadn't enjoyed. He brought them up in
| good, sturdy, honest fashion. He had q
long string of horses, and they needed q
| plenty of lads to look after them, but in
the Brecongin establishment there wasn't
q army Of careless servants to carry on the
| household and waste the masters sub
stance. The daughters did the work, as do
our sturdy farmers daughters at home,
and old John Osborne prospered with his
frugality and honesty and left them we'll
provided for.
In his training stable there was a clever,
bright faced lad, an apt pupil in the saddle.
: He thought the masters CHEEKY daughter,
who was such a keen Judge of a horse,
would make Il good wife for a jockey-and
she thought so TO-. His name was Tom
Chaloner, and a rare good jockey he was in
! his time, which vas the time Of Fo1dham
and Archer. He was almost the only one
' that Fordham's kidding" did not disturb
and who could beat him at bis own game.
A flock of young ChalonerA who have all
turned out trainers or jockeys, gathered
round their hearthstone in the pretty flower
decked cottage in Yorkshire, but rs all good
racing people go to Newmarket, just as all
good children go to heaven, the Chaloners
joined the Newmarket colony also. There
Tom Chaloner died, leaving Mrs. Chalonel
with a houseful of children and lone toe
much wealth.
She made u trainer out of one boy-hel
eldest son, Tom-who is married now, ha!
q training establishment of his own, a de
sirable set of patrons and a cozy home il
Newmarket. She made Il trainer and Joke!
out of another, who is in South Africa now
and she made jockeys out of the younge
ones, who are indeed the chief lightweight
now. They are George, one Of the leading
young jockeys; Dick, Il ni~neteen-year-olt
lad, a strong rider and still an apprentice
to his mother. and two little lightweights
Phil and Harry. who have sported silk an,
promise to turn out we'll.
: She did a good deal toward making then
good jockeys, Installing in their minds til
wholesome precepts of her father an
brother, giving them many Il point abou
riding u race, getting them before the pull
lie by giving them mounts on her DIV
horses; giving them fair, useful education!
and making them good, honest, well maj
nered, self respecting lads by her sensibl,
cheerful home influence.
Thus you see her turning trainer is til
natural result of her life and association
1t isn't Il fad with her. She is regularl
licensed by the Jockey club. and has
string of horses in training for herself an
several patrons.
She has Il training establishment in New
market that compares favorably with til
establishments of some famous trainer
Her house, Osborne house, is "a big, room,
comfortable house. looking out on a trail
ing ground I'M the Bury hills. Her stable
connected with it are of the approved New
market style, with the stable yard and ever
thing about them as neat as a pin.
She is II good horsewoman and goes OF
IN tina Inntl I, on hor ,rov nx,ap =, o,u,ir.
u work her horses, Just like her profession;
g brothers. She puts her charges throug
i their walking, trotting and c:antering; ST
Z knows when to give them fast work, whe
L to try them, and she knows pretty well VIII
Il they can do after she tries them. She COM
!. in with them, sees that they are proper
'e done up and her small hand can discover
u much us any other trainers when she rul
- it down Il horses leg.
u She is a womanly woman besides ar
y thoroughly domestic, and the fact hat 81
le can set Il batch of bread to raise and the
IL 10 out and train her horses doesn't detra
IL from the success of either undertaking.
She is known and respected and liked
e all the English racing folk. In her quie
III unassuming costumes, with her CHEEKY, 81
IL cere, unaffected manners she is seen
"a nearly every meeting during the racing Sc
~ sou. She il out early every morning to s
y the horses at work, even when she hash
lie her own out, and when the races are {
% spends most Of her time in the paddot
IS looking over the horses, chatting with Il
s racing people, seeing that her boys get
IS fair cut ut the riding and sending an occ
III sional small commission into the ring.
q She is a keen Judge of Il horse, she kee
le herself posted on the form Of those ri
Q ming, and her own eye can tell her u got
lie deal about their condition, 30 that maj
and many u frequenter Of the paddo'
~ comes to her for her opinion about u horse
e chance in a race just rs he would go to
u masculine trainer. She bets carefully al
III cautiously herself, rarely risking more tn
CT q pound, aud the balance is usually on t
Ell right side with her. There's very little fu
4; about her betting. II she likes II horse s
al will say to some one willing to do her t
4. service, PUT a sovereign Tor ten shillin
II. or five shillings, IA the case may be) on s
&C. and-so to win," or for place, and no more
Gu said about it till they settle by letter.
In the sale paddocks she is always in {
=. mand. More thar one buyer will come
Is her and ask her to look ut u yearling
no blood mare and tell him what she thinks
a. ,,1 ,.I,ot cha tGiul.s IF IL froO,,ant1v n