The Anaconda standard., 1897-12-06

after all, the lauSn was on HIS siuN,
and he is here again among us, and
so. too is Huggins and an American
Jockey, by the name of Sloan, VINO,
despite his little experience Of New
market Heath. and what we in this
country call his inartistic style of rid
ing yet manage to win races against
our crack horsemen.
If Sloan was disappointed IN his expe-
rienee in the Cambridgeshrc with st.
Cloud H., he had his fair share Of re-
venge yesterday, when he won the Free
handicap on Meta H., beating Jeddah and
Nun Nicer among others, and the Old
Cambridgeshire on Sandia The Criterion
Hin is a difficult one for a horse and
jockey to surmount, as Bendgo and
Luke once found 1t; but Sloan and Sand
managed to get there all the same. Both
Meta II. and Sandia are American bred,
and the last named is by our expatrated
sire Sailor Prince. who won the cam
bridgeshire that Fred Archer thought
should have been ST. Mirins. The general
opinion on Sloans horsemanship was
that although he had a comfortable ride
on SanGia he won on Meta II. in brilliant
style.
Altogether. yesterdays racing at New
market was quite in favor of America.
There is no doubt about it that across
the Atlantic they can breed spr nteis,
and in Australia stayers. Between two
stools the mother country will come TO
lHt RTOuHu. DuI our DfeGueTS HdNc lilt
remedy in their own hands 1t is useless
to listen to the vaporings of our fanatical
enthusiasts that make flesh and bone out
of young horses before such cond tion
of horseflesh should be arrived at. and it
is mere stupidity to persevere in increas-
ing the popularity of our 2-year-old big
stakes. They should be sternly discour-
aged and then we should not b. troubled
by host of young stations doing duty in
the paddock when they should be conclud-
ing their racing careers in honorable
fashion on the turf. 1t is the early matur-
ity game that is running our horses, just
as it is sapping at the stamina of our
cattle. Yet, at the same time it is annoy
ing to see our lost possessions and our
colonies beating us at the game in which
we were once pre-eminent-The Referee.
An objection to Sloans riding in the 81.
Crispin Nursery handicap at Nofthamp-
ton, England, has stirred up much discus
sion and some criticism among English
racing men recently, and the following
comment from the Referee, which in the
opinion of an American eyewitness of the
scene treats the subject most fairly,
makes interesting reading:
II want American friends to pay partic-
ular attention to this notion anant the
st. Crispn Nursery handicap at North
ampton. and subsequent, and, ] can add
after the race, consequent object on to
transatlantic cousins that the little man
came here, seen and conquered us
as far as personal liking at almost tIst
sight can go. We recognized that he could
ride, and no mistake about il. The
strangers self-possessed gentlemanly
bearing impressed us much His style was
not our style; still we. who are apt to be
critical, recognized his merits. The for
ward carriage of his body must be Il great
point on mathematical principles, mas
much as through it he avoided resistance
to the wind. whether blowing against him
| or created by his horses pace. Sloan
! made a multitude of friends as soon as
| he had been here long eonugh to be rec
/ ognzed The British public, the finest
| judges in the world, froze on to him,
and in his successes he found as warm,
hearty. disinterestcd applause as ever
! greeted a popular, home-bred idol. This
is by way of Introduction.
| Il never heard more genuine cheering
| from the crowd, the bookmakers. the
| hackers swels and all, than was evoked
by his fine-and it was SO. Enthusiastically
| riding on Bambin Really, this was a
| splendid piece of horsemanship, and we
were all quick to accept it as such. Now,
at first, when Tom Loates, who steered
the SECOND, laid objection, an almost. gen.
eral feeling of something akin to indigna-
! tion was engendered. Sloan, in a settle
with Tommy, had beaten him with the
| horses lying side by side. But on consider
alton you could. If YOU were far-minde d
see that the defeated jockey had much tt
complain of. No matter who had been III
| the first past the post. he was most dis
| tinctly open to objection, and as far as
feeling between the two countries goes
| | may assert that | honestly believe
| Sloan. If a home-bred jockey, would prob
ably have been disqualified
See here. my American friends. espe
ciaIly those whose opinions so very k nd
Ia -r,f int lis ttsa1,1
and welcome, it was like this: At some 40
yards from the judge Bambini, Tod
| mount was on the rails. From that pJin
to the finish the track trends little Il
the left with quite a noticeable angle il
it, say $50 yards before the judges box /.
reached. Instead of sticking to the ordi
nary route-that is to say steering hi
horse as near to the curve as possible
the Yankee took a bee line. That is al
very well if you have lead enough to pla!
hare to hounds, but with rivals to thu
right of you is distinctly unfair, becaus
you must be pushing them out on th
wide side of the wheel so that if til
method is sufficiently insisted on, tin
winner, assuming he can keep the lead
will finish under the Judges boX-l al
writing Of Nerthampton--and squeeze a
to the right of him into the rails. In thi
case Sloan passing the Judge was IN tn
middle of the course. whose left half wa
clear save for one horse, Jiffy H. owne
by Mr.. L.orillard and Lord William Beres
ford. Wood, who rode this animal ough
TO have won had he been given room o
the outside. but was compelled to pu
round inside of the two leaders. and tr
what he might do there. Bambini race
by Mr.. Robinson seven yards wide of hi
natural line. The protest was overruleC
but some of the jockeys who rode wer
strongly of opinion. as | am. that dis
| qualification was merited.
mo one suggested that the little ma
was Intentionally foul. Most of US, re
viewing the situation quietly after tn
excitement had cooled down. agreed tina
If jockeys were free To make their wa
home at an angle across the track $ lin
fair racing would be impossible on sue
courses as Northampton. 1t was Loate
duty to object, and. as ! said before,
Sloan had been an Englishman he woul
in all probability have paid full penalt
for an error in judgment. That il was a
error, and not consequent on letting n
horse hang a desire to take unfair ao
vantage. is quite certain. No man of n
weight can keep Il horse more directly o