New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-08-20
RACING AT SHEEPSHEAD.
PUTTING SLOANE ON THE GROUND.

THE JOCKEY WON FOUR RACES OUT OF SEVEN
A COMPLAINT FROM THE srARTER-EX-
rRAoRDINARY ACTION OF THE
STEWARDS.
Sloane is Jockey Of exceptional intelligence and
ability. Most of the jockeys who are now riding
on American racetracks do not know the differ
ence between a syogism and syzygy and have
never read Plato Sloane has brains and judy
ment. and hands and seat, and balance and DIS
cretion and foresight and knowledge OF pace ana
self-control What does Flynn. the starter. nave!
A blasted and withered record as politician
What do the stewards at Sheepshead Bay have?
The polished courtesy. the stately dignity the
majestic bearing the elaborate etiquette OF Yer
sailles In the DAYS Of Louis XIV. Anything else?
Yes. perhaps.
sloane was set down at Brighton because Flynn
did not like him. Yesterday Flynn made report
TO the stewards at Sheepshead Bay TO the erect
that Sloane had repeatedly dsobeyed him at the
post. Upon what meat has this our Caesar fIynn
been feeding that he has become so great? Is he
new Colossus OF Rhodes and must ordinary human
beings keep between his massive legs and shrink IN
terror from his Titanic frown? Sloane mas peeh
riding wonderfully we'll this year. He has proved
that he is Triton among minnows in comparison
with the majority OF American Jockeys lie mas
haen winning many races for his employers and for
the hackers of his mounts that almost any other
American jockey would have lost. Perhaps ne mas
been winning too many races TO please fVhh anu
FIynns friends Possibly the stewards 40 not IKE
10 see Sloane win many races. Tarai. apparently
offended the starter and the stewards at Sheeps-
head Raw in a similar way last year. He rode so
we'll and won so many races that the starter made
complaint against him, and Taral was put on the
ground for a few days. The Sheepshead Bay stew
ards Yesterday the complaint or the star'e' put
Shane the ground for five race days VIII IL not
be an entertaining sight to see certain racetrack
n1o win roif a
whiskbroom? Some of them may not be In urgent
demand for the stewardship of races in 1877.
The public that supports racing and by Its sup
port of racing pays turf salaries was ehthusiasuc
for Taral when he won so many races last year
even II the starter and the stewards were hosthe
IN Taral The public is fond Of jockeys that win
races and Il has a strong affection for Sloane be-
cause he rides far better than any other American
Jockey except Taral. and because he wins many
races and because in every way ne proves hihlseii
10 be a jockey worthy of CONFIDENCE. esteem ana
admiration. He four races yesterday, on irlsh
Reel Refugee Lake Shore and The Dragon what
was his reward? He set down for hve racing
DAYS on complaint of the starter flynn was once
Speaker of the New-Jersey Legislature ferhaps
Il might be Just as we'll for Flynn not to be 100
prodigal with his complaints. Is he altogether
certain that his record at Trenton is so clear that
q Republican investigating committee of the New
Jersey Legislature might not be able py dlIgeht
research TO rTVe s1s wa the best that any
August no matter how generous. could possibly
the Coney island Jockey Club did not contain many
thousands OF people hc reason FOR inc ne dscnv s
Any intellectual investigator who has watched me
of racing affairs In this state since he
close Of the Morris Park meeting cannot De at loss
for explanations OF the cause or limited attendance
a. racecourse These are hard times. and the
average American fingers before he consents TO pay
s. for a race-track ticket; when ne suspects tnat
chance take a slant occasionally Confidence is the
,lap W
merchants capitalists bankers and employers OF all
classes regain confidence business Will flourish once
more and the whole country will be comfortable
. When confidence in the American turf is com
XIV he doubled and race-track dividends may posi-
bly, be Guadrupled But not until then Ana whet
Flynn and the stewards unite 10 pun on tne esEua
afternoon then confidence falls in mt.
No. gentlemen. that Is not the right way 10 go 20
races That method might be effective in central
Bolivia or in North and Eastern Spiizbergen But
not right here in the Greater New-York You ought
10 consider that Americans not cutting their first
set of teeth on coral in these days Americans IN
this part Of ne s whose of the
turf Is worth having have escaped And when these
fun grown f o Of seven in
afternoon, they viii not only Wink lhev VIII
The first two races yesterday were for two-year-
ODDS that had won race, to be ridden by
jockeys that had never ridden a winner The frst
second and King Bon third. In the second
Doomfu from the Fleschmann stable, had many
josting and crowdng occurred al the turn INTO the
homestretch Doomful fell but neitner me coz nor
spirer CAPTURED first honors.
Sloane rode Irish Reel superbly in the third race.
Refugee in the nth Lake Shore IN the SIKH ana
them all. 1t dazzling series OF successes His
recompense was TO be set down for hve racing days
on the complaint Of the starter What starter and
what stewards!