The morning news., 1899-12-03
PA BILL DALTS SCHOOL.
lie TRAINS SOME OF THE FORE
MOST JOCKEYS OF THIS COUNTRY.

Attend Church and Take Desperate
Chances on the Race Track-some
of Snapper GarrfsOn's Escapades
BefOre He Graduated-Why Pa
DaIy Thinks Betting Uncertain
business.
New York, Dec. /. The mos'
unique feature of the American turf
today is Pa Bill Daly's school
for Jockeys. The marvellous success of
Tod Sloan and the Reiff boys in Eng
land has awakened the desire among
thousands of poor lads TO become skilled
Jockeys for whom fortune are waiting,
and this eccentric Irishman is now flood
ed with requests from would-be appren-
tees. He is recognized as the adept pre-
eminent in teaching boys how to ride.
His reputation in this respect is of long
standing. He 1t was who made Jimmy
Mclaughlin for many years the premier
jockey of America and the greatest rider
of two-year-olds this country has yet
produced. Edward (Snapper) Garrison,
too, was a pupil of your Uncle William"
and now comes little Whine OConnor,
who will probably head the list of win
ming jockeys this year, though but II
years old and so youthful looking that he
might well be wearing kills. Then there
Is Willie Palmer, Johnny and Jimmy
Lamley Danny Maher, ]. Slack and an
other child, little Brennan, who, Pa Bill
says, will make Americas greatest jock
ey with little more training.
As these boys graduate from the Daily
school they are in demand at the big
racing stables for every horse owner
knows that a Daily pupil has been so
thoroughly and acutely trained in the
business that he is capable TO ride the
most important races So they come year
after year to Coney Island where the
winter quarters are and any day you may
see these embryo famous jockeys tearing
along the cycle path, bundled up in heavy
clothes with the perspiration ooZing out
OF every pore and followed, perhaps, by
an admiring crowd of school boys The
Young jockeys are striving to keep down
flesh that they can ride at the small
est weight possible.
Every one is urged on by the thought
of making perhaps 100000 a year and
winning worldwide fame, and inciden-
tally by their temporary father, who is
known to be quite active at times with
a bale stick, the hickory with which
comes around a bundle of hay Mr.. DAILY
are taken from orphan homes and poor
families who are only too glad to have
child taken care of Others have run
away and drift to the "gaffer-in-chief''
who does not take any chances, however,
and requires each hoy to be properly
vouched for and indentured to him for
a period of five years. Legal papers are
drawn up and signed by the boys parents
or guardians. Then the lad becomes Pa
BINS property, and if he runs off may be
arrested and returned to the school. MIR.
DAILY gives no money either to the boy
or his relatives. He simply contracts to
make jockey out of the youth and take
care of him until he is graduated. In
this way Pa Bib accures considerable
wealth. for the boys get s25 for every race
they win and $40 for losing race, to say
nothing of large gifts from the owners
Yet the price is not too high for the
training received.
Training for a Jockey.
In the first place a boy must have a
natural aptitude for handling horse. Pa
Bill can tell the minute boy takes a
mount whether he is of the right sort
II the boy shows any signs of fear it gen
eraliy settles his case. There are eX-
ceptons, however," observed Mr.. Daily to
the writer. Now that boy Slack, for in
stance. is little skeery, yet he will make
good boy. 1 got him from a trainer
down in Kentucky and the lad was half
starved. He trained him wrong by put
ting him first on powerful horse that he
could not hold"
ia Bill makes no mistakes like this
he gives the boy an easy mount at the
start and then trains him by riding along
sae IN a little pneuma tic tired sulky in
winch his horse can trot or gallop at will
from there he calls out instructions to
'he tyro, and the only thing that he re-
quires IS that the boy obey on the in
s,ant every command and show no signs
VI rear. When he has taught him the cor
ltct position and the practical details
.he apprentice is given a chance on a
fy out This is a preliminary race to
Test the horse that is entered for an
vent The head jockey rides the horse
,Hal is to race and the head apprentice
axes mount on the trial horse If he
suo"s himself capable in this he is later
NJ honored with mount in a real race.
a Pretty Hard Life.
10 school him for That occasion the mas
YER introduces the scholar into many a
mystery and art of the business. and first
~ ~ ~ lmpresses him with the Importance
setting off at the post" This is an
qGAion fairly scared on the memory of a
aF BOY. 1t means that, instead of
al'lhs v.u Tor the others to get off in the
,s.' as do the English pockeys, the rider
80 10 dash to the front and get the best
sISslon nossble, seven or eight lengths
0il Sugal OF the others and then rest there
I Jockeys have been successful in Eng
aTo az Ny practicing this. The riders there
49, aeoustomed to hold back until near
70 win 'us' ~ " ieice sprint
aro Bills methods are rather severe at
bs b' e. II a boy shows a yellow streak"
nag 's art to be punished. and many COM
br, nave been head from time to time
oSt mere is no gainsaying that he turns
mo- s Keys. Another point which he i'm
st,. Iorcibly on his pupils is the neces-
boy..ol bg o. forcing ones way in between two
pln.[S ahead. This requires the greatest
'Vyk JT and endurance.
r,Iule O'Connor, who, by the wav. is
toiopL toiplew Of Pa BIZ. has made his repu-
"Ion y, thereby.
al f a dozen horses are coming on
ioy. e Hnish you will hear the little fel-
Other 'alilng all sorts of things to one an
one .,r I our horse is played out" says
obsr ae A'. an opening there" screams an
Il is WIN an oath. my horse is freshp'