The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1896-04-12
CoLORs or 1nE JOCKEYS.
Their Origin, Significance. and Cost-An
Innovation ut Guttcnburg


Tint the season OF the glorious sport Of kings
Is at hand is shown by the making of the new
colors for the popular stables and the display
of them ms they nre completed by the firm on
whose shoulders the mantle Of Delurv, the
one.time maker. has fallen. On Monday the
well-known Kccne colors, white and blue
spots, were placed on n colored boy dummy,
nstrido Of n horse in the window Of the chop,
and nine men out OF every ten stopped TO look
at them, and walked on with n smile of salts
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tae'ioh ahe 'houghts OF n hnli holluaN lot the
Brooklyn Handicap.
The colors nre NOT nil chance selections.
lhey are generally TIE result "t t'hsiderhoie
thought, and there Is very often n little
~ snasn.aa. ~. ""- - aas
OF sWce,ne"rI ,ha' chooses them' sometimes
color luck Is suhlec, 10 prcat changes. Some
Wv ~ % ~ =" 80 - - D"
others because they can DO readily distin-
Ruished. md this should he the great considera-
will use, he notifies the Board Of Control, and
II no one else has entered a clairn. he has them
registered and this protects them on the
tracks operated under the Board of Control.
.l'S - a. y "n NV " 49, NV NV
registering Is not compulsory only auVlsaoie.
,ions nossihIe or n reol ~ halls. ,herc is nracti.
~ " u "i"' '"'.o % 49,
cally no end to them. Take the orange. blue
sleeves and cap of j. Il. Haggin; the gold and
blue STRINGS Of n. Uiygins. Jimmy NcIouublin's
onu 49, ,ntSs ~, 'n wv nu .
tunatc Bashford Manor peacock blue. yellow
sash and can. the hIue bodv. orange ruffs md
cap ut w. l.. Burch, and the blue and orange
hoops and cap of the Boulevard Stable as ex-
amples. The American flag has not escaped.
who does not remember Tom Harding's win
AZ 10 70 / on July 4 hve or SIX years ago with
the RED. white. and blue stripes, and the subse-
Trade marks have also appeared In the. colors.
the horses being run as advertisements. This
was done notably by n whisky house. A
dealer IN cheese tried a Jacket with a large
cheese on tie back; and the word cheese"
above. a blacksmith In the West had a white
the middle Of the back. but this was thought
directors of the tracks frowned on such bare
faced advertising.
Marcus DAILY runs In. copper and green and
silver and what could be more appropriate
than these handsoins ,colorsI, The green is
tie COPPER represents the great mine from
which sprung his fortune. and the silver is
typical OF the large interests he has in other
mines. The L%orillard c,olors OF cherry. black
hoops on sleeves. and. black CAP, have been
used only since l%roTnois went to England and
stable were simply cherry and black cap. with
no hoop. 1t was found that these FLASHED with
the colors Of Lord .E l~iard and so the hoops
again while the name of ~lroquois Is remem-
bered. The Barbnrtty colors of the Morris
stable are among the more conspicuous in any
hcld. They were the original colors of that
strong stable, and obtained their name through
the original colors of the Barbarity strain OF
Ruthless. he norseless. and Relentless, by Bar
S!lnoon-Barbarity n mare imported by the
elder Morris away back In lSJS-50. They are
claimed to be the oldest set of colOrs on the turf
of ,his country. There came n time when there
was no Morris reprcscn .ative on the track. and
the colors lapsed from use. When the late MIR.
John a. Morris revived the GlorieS of the stable
he thought of using new ColorS. and did so in
one race. but n newspaper man took Mr.. Morris
colors, and Mr.. Morris discarded the innova-
ton and returned to the blazing scarlet cap
and jacket which have been seen so often In the
van ut the great Eastern tracks with Little
field up on -. FIorlan. Reckon, Llntriguante,
Minnehaha. Russell, that fleet son of Eolus.
and many others.
The red and white stripes of w. b.. Jennings
Iprang from the rebel flag. The owner. known
as Missouri Jennings. to distinguish him
from "Baltimore' Jennings. belonged to Nir-
ginia, fought for the Confedcracy, and then,
like II good sportsman. was reconstructed. all
but his cnlors. he famous Procto; Knott ran
with a large gaInecoCk on the back Of his
riders silk jacket when lie was owned by Sam
Bryant, who. being II kentuckian. and an all
around sport .man. let II be known to the world
thar he had n liking for the old sport of cock
fghtinR. Champagne Charlie, had a large
Thomas has Il large silver "T' as "A decoration
solution orcnir .r ~ phiiin mwv "rs stn"kt IN The rs-