Omaha daily bee., 1900-12-07
TOD SL0AN'S BAD MANNERS
Reasons Given for Excluding Him
from English Race
Tracks.

LONDON, Dec. 6-The Racing Calendar
today announces that Lester Relfr. the
American jockey, has been exonerated of
the charge OF pulling Mr. Richard Croker's
h9rse' rse Ihe I1ns sc9tchman H. at Dopeastcr; % m
formed that he need not apply for a license
for next season.
win appears nr,th that si2ans arrangements eoas
through r. Gardiner, but that the friends
OF tho prince In the Jockey. club. having
humiliation of engaging a disqualified
Jockey. The consensus Of sporting opinion
In London this evening IL that sloan has 10
thank the clique OF undesirable persons
whom he allowed himself to be identined
Curoman, il will be remembered, was the
French horse Upon which Sloan won an Inn
portant race In France and the animal was
brought to England to run In the Cam
sloan's nuth in Curomani's ability re-
suited In the ., f9rmsom orr OF one or the
was only one of many large supporters Of
sloan's mounts, II is estimated that some
horse. Beryl, cantered home.
The Sportsman will say tomorrow: Les
ter Reiff may be said, in the fullest sense
a stain upon his character. There are few
of us who will not be thoroughly delighted
immensely popular here by his uniformly
modest and unassuming conduct and he
viii doubtless be a greater favorite than
while we are sorry to appear inclined to
exult over man who is down. we cannot
help saying that the curt intimation TO
Sloan gives almost as much satisfaetion az
the triumphant acquittal OF Reiff. Nobody
Sse na oss sloan san Is be sas sr s
manners are far from admirable and he ap-
pears to regard himself as the equal, II not
never to have been allowed to ride a}ter
his disgraceful conduct at Ascot r. 1890.
he dSSRGs Rsps Gef OF the ookey e
The Daily Chronicle SAYS: THE exonera-
tion OF Rein is only what was expected.
a Solomon. The justice of the Sloan SEN
tence is not 30 apparent. We fail to see
corruption in accepting a sum of money
Jockey club is fathomless:. Whatever his
faults Sloan has been badly treated. He
was lauded for winning foul race on tho
prince of Wales horse and engaged imme-
diately to ride for the prince. Then he was
when he had not broken a racing rule
The case is certainly hard"
The Sporting Life expresses the fullest
approval of. the decision. as showing that
the the Jockey clu6 d,' is strong enough to keep
some of the papers refer. to the decision
NEW YORK. Dec. 6-Jockey TOD Sloan.
suS Of the action Of the English
II am surprised ! cannot believe this tC
be fact. have received no notification
this effect I have done nothing wrong !
was given no intimation that charges. OF
any sort were pending against me or that
Gardiner and Mills were, before any sum
mary action was taken by the stewards. I
the stewards of the Jockey club at any
rate.
''Of course It is not proper for me to take
cognizance of the matter or action regard
ing 1t until the official notification reaches
the the stewards. This viii make no difference
In my plans. however: I will leave for Call
fornia tonight. as l have arranged"
Results mt New Orleans.
NEW ORLEANS. Dec. 8.-Weather fine
and track heavy. Animosity, Moroni and
Triaditza were the winning favorttes. Re-
suits:
CAMP 164 WE; GBermanYs man. 30 to to l. won Elsie Del.
9s Dale). to / and 3 to 2. second; Juan
eta. 1903 (McQuade), to l. third. Time:
22% Div9nne sS0rp'Sle,,s s'so Varro' orr'e
mostly, ll2 lWlkerson): to !, won; w. J.
ps6oe log o1 pSiel to ana tS,rs 70 ! seEEna
i:H. Glen Bow. Gray Dolly, Red Signal
Merriman and zeck Phelps, also ran. =,
Third race, one mile and one-slxteenth
won Admetus, 96 (Ransom). to and
even. second Monk Wayman. 1ol lWon-
deriy). 8 to /. third. Time: 1:5sN. Bright
Night. Phidias Sister Fox, Heleln Paxton
and Village Pride also ran.
Moroni 1os a. Weber,, to S, won; Glen
General ei IL Mart Gary, III GT. Walsh. to J.
third. Time: 1:35h. First Past. Acushla
and Aaron also ran. =,
Fsa.sm Ess 10 six ssnss %Gn Joe Tss41. Hs4a
(Daic). 8 to 2 and even. second; Schrivener
IOi (Boland), 10 to l, third Time: l:ls: An.
des. Diana Fonso, Belle of Orleans. Harry
sixth race. six and one-half furlongs, SELL