New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-05-25
THE MUD SPOILED SPORT.
AMERICAS CHAMPION JOCKEY RODE POORLY
THE PROGRAMME RUINED BY SCRATCHES

THE PROGRAMME RUINED BY SCRATCHES
Al Morris Park yesterday Sloan rode Ike
chorus girl and not like the champion Jockey o.
America. Even champion Jockeys have their off
DAYS 1t melancholy mishap for the West
chester Racing Association that the Manhattan
r,iny season had not ended early on Monday Talk
q. tropical waterfalls coming down every day for
weeks and months Could Mount Ararat upon
which the ark az last grounded ever have been
vst,er than the horoughs of Manhattan and The
Bronx have been in the April and May Of 1925?
Can II be that this State needs bigger and broader
canals. Unless dry weather in soon and the
sun aside It's stubborn shyness all this part
OF the New World Will be continuous canal
long, Morris Park wide and deep estuary yes
srday and several OF the horses which sent to
the post behaved ss II they afraid OF drown
ing. Mud ecows and cana-boats moored with mar
row spaces between them for the rescue OF the
water-drenched creatures would have served a use
ful purpose. New-Yorkers will be signing and cry
ing for new Noahs and nineteenth-century arks OF
refuge before this month is over. granting that the
ca:ayacts Of the clouds do cease.
The Westchester Association had arranged
card OF uncommon lustre. Cleaning in the lists
were the of The Huguenot. Tillo. Ben Ho-
iaday and other horses of glttering fame. Because
OF the deep mud caused by the recent foods from
the sky the programme wellnigh exter-
minated. This OF simple murder. or
mere massacre. or commonplace butchery. The
weather and the condition Of the track melted the
and trainers to assassinate the entries
Not even the heroes OF liberty-lovng Holland
suffered worse slaughter from the wicked Duke of
Alva while Philip King OF Spain than this
racing progra nme suffered. II was not the fault
Of the association nor Of H. G. Crickmore that
the programme was out 10 shreds as II II had
been run through tormentor in a pulp mill II
was the fault of the Manhattan rainy season.
which has STEPPED the racecourse this year as
the bull-rng is sodden with blood when the gentle
and kind-hearted Court OF Madrid gosts over the
torments Of helpless and crippled horses whose
bowels are torn and trodden underfoot In the
refined and ennobling sport which is the national
delight Of every chivalric and hish-m'nded
Spaniard.
Yes that ha pless and unreststins programme was
shattered as II by Calling guns on account OF tho
weather and the condition Of the track And tho
card for to-day is Of the least attractive ever
announced al Morris Park. Yet what can Crfck-
more do? What the association do? They
can't scatter tho clouds and compel the sun 10
shine And they can't force owners and trainers
TO start their horses while the eaky reservoir OF
the upper air change the course into a morass NO
turf writer with conscience can advise the pub
lie to go Morris Park to-day in order 70 see 80
unalluring a card run through. The Westchester
Association and Mr. CrickmOre have labored dill
gently 10 make the programme tempting and TO
get out handsome fields OF popular horses. All
such efforts no matter how able no matter how
Jealous must fall when lovely May. usually serene
and sweet. becomes wet-eyed fury. and. In spite
Of all protests. pours down her unwelcome snow
ers day after day and week after week This Is
not a May Of peace and goodwill. a May OF smiles
and graces This is May OF trowns and scowls
a May OF RACES and frenzies. May Of sour hys-
terice and untempered tears. Therefore Morris
Park is in woful plight to-day. And all account
OF this copious spring. Nothing else
STUDIES OF THE RIDERS
The seething spring storms may have soaked and
saturated sloan's skill into delquescence and houe
IJa hod OD1y fyEn
neither instance was he the and only Tod OF
the other days OF this meeting. Could such
Jockey ooze into the melting mood OF snow
statuette in a hot sun? He was on George keene
in the Pocantico Handicap and on Ben Ronald In
the las, race which also handicap. On each
colt ne rode like a songer. a Gee Poat. and
not Ike the Sloan who was on the back or Jean
Reraud In the wealthest STAKES OF the meeuns
the National Stallion and the Eclipse The read
ers Of this article will confer favor by using
some minutes in thoughtful study OF the racing
summaries which follow this turf introduction.
Toilsome research among those summaries VIII
reveal 10 any investigator that Sloan Songer foat
and C;ee-al four Of them-had mounts yesterday
AS to which one Of the four rode worst and which
one Of the four rode best. that might perhaps DE
q puzzlng problem 10 solve
Sloan Is about size Of a Tiny Tim pickle
Such a microscopic and inhniteslma atom 0. M.
mainly cannot work miracles cVeIy a@S % VI men
NE il IS bewlldering that he has COM 80 i'. IN
The Old Testament says thst Da G b tsllest Co
iis,hs ~ he betting ring in England more than
once with several sngs-not aI"ays Win Wiz, ~
rbilosopher expect this dimnutive wonder OF the
racetack to achieve at all times tfiupnbs ~ been
sigantic' and he is only little fellow after al
s Ts ~ The Ioftv standard Of jockeyship which
he is In the habit Of UNFOLDING. put ms popuE1s a.
ms tsIlinro in his work is only Tor afternoon
and in The future he Will exceed no .nT he
hat he needs word Of warning 70 avoid excessSs
devotion 10 dramatic ar, - ne ,alent who through
excessive devotion to dramatic art nave pen vaue
10 them is q long and sad one. Pause ana re ef
feet Tod II you wish to De an ac c,oga and the
iUrf never mixed well and they never VIII. 3 2r
will have a heavy responsibility al MoI PIE preri
ssa Rs Bemonl sskes nile ara rss tq
longs Tina, VIII be the closing gay o. b .S r., most
important fea,ure Hamburg WIN be seen In me
Brook and Previous win meet him Al three coils
have been working well IN preparatb non colt will
venture 10 compete with the three but those three
will be well worth seeing in the journey OF eleven
,o brow that an he shs
,ainly worse than ne at this trne IN R Imi,
and he much better He i moi IN os ss
%rday. and may be dangerous as ne VII carry oTS
track HRys at f hssoRyn Roy STAG
ran than he did yeserda but Don de Uu ~
POUNDS 70 his ils that all the turfmen who saw me
&c . MADE up their minds that Royal stag woeId
ase no chance with Don De orc hereafter, on1eps
a. great advantage IN the weights Zen .oer We vac
IN tns last race also. He in the Brooklyn az 1913
po9Gnus out unless he improves vastly before SAT
uIoay ne VIII have chance . :,
-. r.. DIVERS three-year-old colt BY FOX ~ IN
1ne brooklyn with the feather-weight or " poun1e
,.-eis are no weight penalties In the Brooky IN
G the pocantico Handicap he defeated Mont Dol
and so well in hand as 70 maze II clear that ne is
fso coz nd OK very remarkabe ability in mud he had
~ po9nds up. 10 Mont D'Ors 1ls, George Keenc
~ ana Mirthfuls IL Sims rode him In fine style
- :. nght boy could r1de Sly Fox well al sz POUNDS
ne coolq surely win the Brooklyn. provided that
me s .rs 6 Is muddy on Saturday But Sly Fox IS
weny qncuit colt 10 ride. and Sims had his hands
ta Win MIN YET II Sly Fox should by any chance