The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-04-28
THEIR FIRST MOUNTS.
LEADING KNIGHTS or TIE PIGsKLN
GROW REMINISCENT.
Garrison and Jimmy" Lambly Tell How
Daily Taught Them to VIVA bard
1askmaster.
The FIRST rae Of my Ilfel

about the particular incident which tried
him tho most, in nine cases cut Of ten
he Will fall into a reflective mood and
describe the first race he ever rode in.
TO ride in race is the acme Of the
ambition of thousands OF youngsters now
performing the drugery work Of a racing
! stable. Some OF them start I'm when they
| are but twelve or fourteen years old, and
work on. year after year. IN the hope
that they will soon be allowed the honor
| OF sporting silk"
Then they suddenly come 70 the reaiiza-
ton that they have grown too heavy for
! jockeyship honors, and unless they are
| fortunate enough 10 become trainers or
assistant trainers, they are doomed 10
DO ordinary groom work for the rest OF
| their lives.
Not one boy out OF forty who thinks
he mas the making Of a jockey ever
reaches the point he is striving to attain.
| Numberless youngsters who can ride fair
~ well attach themselves TO racing
/ stable in Il mental capacity early in the
| season and six months later are surpris-
! ed TO find that they have not once been
permitted 10 get on a horses back, even
for the slOwest kind OF exercise work.
! This soon takes the heart out Of the
/ sturdicst lad. and at the end of the year
| he is usually happy 20 relinquish all hope
] Of ever being an ornament TO the turf
Others, more fortunate, are put through
the regular school OF leading, walking,
trottlng and running the horses ia exer-
else work. and at this point the bulk OF
/ them stop. Unless they acquir the art
Of judging pace. they are useless for
more important work. as a trainer might
! wish to send a horse along al a 2-minute
| clip and the boy would work him In ] 80,
Il D.
n a boy can ride, keep down his weight
and above all learn 20 judge pace within
few seconds, he has some chance Of be-
coming a jockey.
Jockey Ed Garrison, more popularity
known as the Snapper. when asked 10
tell about his first race, said "Nou know,
perhaps, that ! am one Of Father Bill
Days graduates. Father BIZ has turn
ed out more Jockeys than any other man
ia the country and he Is no gentle mas
ter TO work for, 1 can tell you. / was
a little kid when my folks signed papers
with DAILY about fifteen vars ago, when
the old Brighton Beach track first OPEN
ed.
Il was one OF the first pupils OF his
Jockey school, and | got more kicks than
a few from his wooden lex. That lex was
terror, and even when l see II now
stumpng about q race track I always feel
Father Bill used to make me 90 70
sleep al o'clock. and l was up usually
at 4. lie was mp. too. and after light
breakfast / would be put on some horse
and then DAILY would put ne and the
horse through the eVOlutions of getting
off in the lead. DAILY spent az much time
teaching the horses 10 break Ike flash
as he did the boys. You can always tell
DAILY horse by the way IL tries TO beat
DO T4nI tsf i'm fa "a M %
front ana stay there as long as you can
The old man wins a good many races,
and in the long run il may be as good
policy as any other
HIS FIRST MOUNT.
"After the getting off plan had been
pounded and kicked into me 1 was given
a mount. / think. IL was on an old horse
named Lgan. IL was mile race, and
] got off well. All through that race
had in mind FatherBills wooden leg, and
] rode the hardest ! knew how from the
drop of the flag. l managed to win but
only by Il short margin and when l got
back TO the dismounting judge and saw
my number at the top of the board l felt
vastly relieved.
81 didn't get anything extra for win
ming the race, but thought that q s.. bill
should have been given me. But instead
Father Bill said: See what / have done
for you. 1 have made YOU able 10 win
races. Now so to bed and get up early '
TAHAL's HUMBLE START
Fred Taral was raised I'm the little town
Of AiatteWan Ill. and 30 was there that
he learned 10 ride. He began riding the
active little Indian pony and was an eX-
pert at bare back work when but ten
years old. lie had a natural fondness
for horses. and spent all the time he
oh 81 a ID 81
place.
IL was at the fair grounds near Mat
tewan that j rode i'm my first race. IL
was only a scrub affair at best said
Taral i'm telling the story but 10 was
an event OF great importance TO me az
the time I only weighed about eighty
five pounds. but / prepared weeks ahead
for the event ana as the race was TO be
at catch weights / felt 10 incumbent upon
me 10 70. down at least I'VE pounds. All
kinds Of horses were entered, mustang,
half-thorOughbred. thoroughbred ana no
particular breed az ALL l was on a half
thoroughbred and half mustang named
Jim IL was a half-mile race for 81, and
some of the riders weighed twice as much
as 1 did.
Anyway the race was run and ] was
beaten about twenty lengths. three horses
finishing ahead of me and four in the |
rear / beat the last horse about forty
lengths. which gave me some melancholy |
satisfaction. although ! confidently eX- |
pected to land the race"
HIS MOST SATISFACTORY WIN.
When asked what win had given him |
the most satisfaction, he said that the |
day he beat Clifford with Domino last ]
FAN gave him the most pleasure, for the /
reason that ne had always claimed Do |
minO was a distance horse as well as q /
Splinter. and the race proved It. Domino |
Taral says, is the greatest horse he ever |
rode
Sam Doggett, the hero OF many sem
satlonal wins. said: Il was put through
hard school at the Gutenberg track
five years ago when IL was in the hey
day OF its glory. II wasn't much Of |
track then. and getting around its short
curves in all kinds OF Winter weather
wasn't much sport for the jockey.
"Guttenburg has graduated good
many riders. for, in the old days the boys
who could command good salary
wouldn't ride there. and the horse own
ers had to do the best they could with
clever stable boys
Matte v was the name Of the first
horse | rode IN race. IL was Winter
time. and ! almost froze while the horses
were at the post l got the rail by some
lucky clance. and managed 20 hug IL all
the way round by riding part OF the time.
with one foot hanging over the fence. IL
was wonder my leg wasn't broken in a
hundred different places. but II Was my