The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-12-13

man. and the handicap was worth
| $500.
His other wins We're on 4. Alexan-
\ der's brown colt Ravelaw Castle. Tor
| the Final Plate; j. r. I.ehigh's bay colt
Manxman, for the Farewell Welter
| Handicap, and David Cooper's 2-year-
| old chestnut colt lie JaVelot. for the
! Syand Plate.
I The phenomenal fortune was all due
to Sloane's riding. the horses not being
ranked particularly high. Sloane him
self says he has no style; that he rides
| every horse in the style best suited to
! the animal; but the English riders all
! credit him with the discovery of Sc
cret not quite earthly. and by taking his
| positions strive to discover it.
Sloane has ridden for the Prince of
| Wales and other distinguished owners.
and to-day he was presented by Lord
/ William Beresford with set of his COL
ors TO take back to America as tro-
| ply. Sloane has presented handsome
! silver cup to the Newmarket Gun club,
where he will shoot next week
! Really all England is crazy over the
American midget. They are not used
to jockeys who put up at the Cecil and
give points in luxury and style to
princes. Every owner who can offer
inducements has overwhelmed him
with requests to ride his horses, the
public grabs the newspapers for his
words and his daily life is described as
If he were a visiting monarch instead
of rider of race horses His society is
sought after like that of a lord at an
American summer resort, and the in
vitations he receives-and generally de-
clines-keep his secretary busy. 1t
would not take much on Tod Sloane's
part to make himself social lion. All
this has not turned his head. He talks
rather patronizingly Of the English
jockeys, but declares that America is
better racing country than England-at
least for him.
The English papers have had good
deal to say about his betting on the
races, which they declared was setting
a bad example. However, sloane is not
sensitive to criticism. He says the
English sporting writers are only try"
ing to get him into trouble because
he is a foreigner; from which remark
it is obvious that all the adulation
and attention he is receiving has
not made an Anglomaniac of Tod
Sloane.
When I saw Tod Sloane tonight, he
said:
THE races to-day afforded a marked
contrast as to the two styles of riding.
The results must make a deep impress
sion on English horsemen. This is
specially So because | won on horses
that have never won before. Take the
Final Plate, in which / rode Bavelaw
Castle, and in which Richard Croker's
Castle has run eight or ten times this
year, and has not won a race up to to-
day. Only two days ago he was handi-
capped 2S pounds below Lascia Dire,
who came in second to-day Even
Bavelaw Castles trainer said that Pc
dant would beat me, but | led through
out and won by 10 lengths. Lascia Dire
was the favorite. There was loud
cheering at the finish. their being the
fourth race | had won to-day No Eng
lish jockey has won four races in a day
this year.
Il also got a big reception when I
won the Saturday Welter Handicap OF
Martha w., and when | won the Stand
Plate on La Javelot. They guyed me
when | came here a short time ago.
but that has all stopped. | must say
they are quick to forget false impress
sions and generous with applause. /
have no complaint to make of my treat
ment in England, and | am perfectly
satisfied to rest on my record and let
the facts tell the story. ] am more
than ever convinced that the English
style of riding is not the best. | gave
il a fair trial. not only in the way to sit
on a horse. but in the way to hold the
reins and legs.
When | ride / rest my elbows on my
knees l do not tie knot in the reins
in order to use them as a loop. as Eng
lish jockeys do. but only to take up the
slack. | hold the reins in a way of my
own. by which | can absolutely prevent
any horse from running away This |
could not do if | followed the English
style. These are only few details of
the differences that | have discovered.
There are others. like England how
ever, and everybody here has treated
me well."-LGndon dispatch to New
York Journal