New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-05-15
AMERICAS FIRST JOCKEY.
SLOAN rs ALONE AND FAR IN FRONT.

,rboueb. won the twenty thousand-dolla Ma
,,onal stallion Stakes at Morris Park yesterday.
Lack OF thought lost It, Sloan was Ihous"' III
that race Sims Lack OF Thought sims was
m Genheim Sloan was on Jean berduu' "00''
has big stock Of Sims's stock OF Sense
=. small John + Madden is overworked. lie
knows a great deal about horses. but he tries 10
do all his own training. and he does ho' ee' H''
enough. When owner takes up Inc nao'' VI
leaving his bed al o'clock In the mo'i''"s 80
seven DAYS in the week and signing con"
with Sims 10 ride his horses, he cannot last re
ovsh, 70 hav. a daily engagement with his under
taker. 800. ,., a..
No one AT Morris Park could find fault with the
weather yesterday. II was perfect ""e" iaS
ing association has perfect weather anu -.
which could not be sounder then tho Hlahasei"
.hould rejoice loudly. And the management u'u
ro,o,os yesterday The attendance was Gafs""-
+uan I, distanced In canter the auehu""V' o'
The first day. Money congested me " '" 49,
az the track in huge sums that an en- ~
Ct racing for the Red Cross on fr!uaS' u"'
a,a. announced The Sensation Stable VIII con
tribute It's winnings on Mont Dor. ana "'ea' D."a
4. axnec.ed TO run. Putting aside all Quips anu
ouiddties IT is unaloyed verify 10 say mn "a
erandstand yesterday buzzed IKE oes"iVe' an
the cyclorama OF gazers was extreme Ia
.rd voci,erous In cheers. Few afternoons IN inc
-o,,v.s ~ the Westchester Racing Assoc1auoh
were anywhere near the whole sum OF ,"o ...
hav Of this spring meeting 1t was tur iunc'o''
of note That's the way In when inc Nonuo
scribes phrase 1t when they write aoou' -
Park as the gee-gees are getting the'r an'e,.e"
a,1np Yes Morris Park was really in FORM iho
right set was there Even farA L"'e e
let II pass without giOe
John Daily is Just back from dear ola Lonoo"
and his colt Jean Beraud. with Il LAIN ~"
name and a descent on the male size winch 49,.
not have failed to please at Eton, or oAioiu %
Aldershot has the honour with W Oh ms p,aN'
IN the neutrality-suspicious. National StaIhon
Stakes The original Jean Beraud was + 'isia"
painter but this colt is son OF his fis"no'''
and he was ridden by Sloan. whose jocKeyship mas
the stamp of the Windsor signet OF ALBION NJ"
could Iohn F. Madden, with his common co''
Glenhem. ridden by a cocoa-coored boy. whose ,'u-
ing WAS laughed at the heath OF NewmarKe'.
on the downs OF EPSON. and on tho moo's u
Yorkshire. expect TO conquer Jean herauu' Wine"
owner had Just come back post haste from 'he
strand? Madden ought to hear Yum Yums song
In THE Mkado" In that pat and pretty di'ty
Yum Yum In her modest and meodious pratue'
declares that she and the moon are very VICE
awake. Madden is not nearly so wide-awaKe aS
John DAILY owner of Jean Beraud. Mr. Day
went to London to get the latest MAYFAIR
touch. and his jockey Sloan knows more about
,ockeyship in a minute than Maddens jockey Sims
knows in month.
Make note OF this. all racing men, ana fenern-
Der it. Glenheim is a better twO-year-od than Jean
Beraud. But Madden needs a trainer and ne neeos
a Jockey. Madden ought not 70 Try to be manu-
facturer q merchant q mil-owneT. an agent. d.
rector general. a commissioner. stable manager
a trainer q teacher OF riders. instructor In JOCK
eyship breeder, producer and contractor ioF
the services OF Congo connoisseurs al at once
Homer had his limits. Dante put in verse mis- poetic
conceptions Of three worlds. but IN regard to the
fourth world his vision clouded. Shakespeare
was almost omnscient. but not quite. To sum 1t
I'D once more Glenheim is a better colt than Jean
Beraud. but Sloan as jockey IS Just now almost
ours is Superior 10 Spain in naval power, Ana i, !,
Is In thing that Jonn T. Madden Is not up 10
master Of race-course problems. turf expert he
is hign up among the earls and the dukes and the
princes but as TO picking out jockey ne may pos
sbly err here and there In several races in 1877 he
put white on Hamburg Was not that enough TO
might be occasionally little astray? II is now
settled fact that Sloan is by ten POUNDS: al east'
MADDEN does not yet see that: Possibly he Is
ias as 10 s an e SUan on lust m
clearly and as eonspicuously as Joseph Letter mas
Sloan Is the Dewey OF American jockeys, He is the
Letter OF the American turf PIX, Sims rides as IL ne
gold-s,andard jockey every time.
HOW THE HORSES WERE RIDDEN.
Sloan had five mounts yesterday. He was frs,
Jean Beraud in the National Stallion Stakes. but II
he had ridden Glenhem and Sims had ridden Jean
Beraud Glenhen would have taken the prize and
Jean Beraud would have been second These are
times. and time and space are scant in news
paper Offices detailed description of all the rid
Ing In that race from start TO finish would convince
the most stubborn OF seeptics that G.enne!m ought
70 have won that race ard Jean Beraud ought to
the landscape and looking around over eacn
shoulder again and again when ne thought that
Sloan is an Ango-Saxon. Sims Is not In ihis great
start 20 Hnis5 T6at's the Anelo.saxon way.
Sloan was thinking OF nothing from the hrst STRIDE
TO the last but OF getting that $5JVVy prize mats
cONee-
colored Sims seemed 10 be wandering TO the juicy
watermelons OF Athens. Georgia That is not the
Ango-Saxon way. Dewey is straight Anglo Saxon:
At Manila he did not let his thoushts wander. IL
whose ancestry not pure Ango-Saxon the Amer
lean turf would have been almost as free from suie
mans exiled Arstides the Just.
Many Of the shopkespers r the Bowery want ant
James Tod s.oan-ave. Sweets TO the sweet
w5eas s sake Re wa on
selling platter. Solely by mastery jockeyshp he got
SsoIe Mar
and Great Bend behind Mr. Baiis ter What I. VII
ride 81 Cloud II in The CamSTdssshire in n ISL as
Johnny my and Mzpah and Medd esome yesterday
II he had ridden ST. Cloud II in the Cambrdgeshire
might have had a statue in Pail Mall by this time,
and certain Americans who backed ST Cloud II
goes over to England and rides ali his races there
ss he rode his races yeserday the British peo-
when he dies-which will surpass the monument
Of Wien any tnf's n R'.4sp Thompson in 1884, sold mos.
OF their horses. including that commonplace Ally
LAlouette. whose victory in the Futuri.y one
OF the srangest fukes in the whole history Of rae
ing in the whole world. they kept The Huguenot.
full brother Of Henry Of Navarro and Reprisal BY
His Highness out Of Retrbution Reprisal 10
half brother Of Requital who 10 by EOthen. out Of
Retribution. The Thompson boys were exceedingly
wise In their day and generation WREN they kept
The Huguenot and Reprisal. The Huguenot won
the W!thers Stakes with such overwhelming
10 make II seem possible that. although he was
uncertain and erratc last year. he may become
racer worthy TO rank with his illustrious brother
1t merely a common canter for the colt. Re
prisai the first race. which over the
Eclipse course for horses which had never won a
race Slasher was second, with that prehistoric
and long forgotten jockey Hamilton in the saddle
6loans skill got fourth place In that first race FOR
Mizpah. one Of the slowest creatures In the race
II Sloan had not been Nizpah. that wretched
beast would probably have been last of all