The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-12-12
SPORTING NEWS.
Little Jockey SIOan's Riding
Days Are Now Over.
Chances Slim For Appearing
Again in the Saddle.
FRISCO CLUB FROWNS.
VIII Not Be Allowed License
at Oakland Tracks.
Has Estranged Friends by Of
fensive Manners
FRISCO CLUB FROWNS.

San Francisco, Cal, Dec. 12.-T. II.
Williams. jr.. president of the California
Jockey club, has received official con-
firInation of the report that Jockey Sloan
Will be refused a license by the English
Jockey club and in conformity thereto
has decided that Sloan shall not be per-
mitted to ride at Oakland.
New York, Dec 12.-Racing men in
New York are coming to the conclusion
that Tod SIoan's racing career is end
ing The ban on him seems worldwide.
The opportunity for the man who is con-
sidered by many the greatest jockey Of
his time is narrowing down to so small
a compass that it now only remote
possibility that he will ever again throw
his leg over a horse in a race. The
F'uturity course at Sheepshead Bay and
the Rowley mile at Newmarket, which
have been The scenes of so many OF
his memorable victories, will know him
no more.
The French Jockey club, under one Of
its rules seems to have no alternative
but to refuse him permission to ride in
races under its jurisdiction, for the rule
in question in the ..cOde deS courses
says: Any jockey who is under exclu-
sion or suspension pronounced by the
stewards of the English Jockey club is
incapaeitated from riding wherever the
present code is in force
Turf congress courses in this country
will, in a measure, be governed by the
action OF the president OF the CALIFORNIA
Jockey club. which has decided today to
bar him. Conditions and precedents all
seem to bar him from the tracks of the
metropolitan districts. Some time in
July, 1Sgt, the American Jockey club
entered into a compact with the English
Jockey club, agreeing to reciprocal rela-
lions between the two bodies, and that
compact is still in effect. Just prior to
that committee of three, representing
the turf congress, and comprising Judge
Perkins of C0vington, KY; l. G. Tarle-
ton of the Fleetwood Stud, Ky, and
Daniel krkman of Nashville, Tenn,
came to New York and, in a conference
with the jockey club, fully agreed to
reciprocal relations between the two
home Institutions, which, however, only
lasted until October of that year, and,
though the two bodies have a friendly
understanding sti1l, there is no compact
in black and white in force and nothing
obligatory.
The different conditions between the
two home bodies We're caused by Ed
ward Corfigan demanding the privilege
of running foreign book at his Cali
fornia meetings He captured the turf
congress by the votes of the proxies he
produced and carried his point Thus.
While the jockey club is in close affilia-
ton with the English body, the turf con-
gress only recognizes it's ruling by cour-
tesy and is in no manner bound to this
or the English Jockey club.
The next most important point to con-
slider is that a race course is a private
property, as decided at the Huron trou-
Bile with the Coney Island Jockey club,
so that if the Jockey club refuses IL
cense to any jockey or trainer there is
no redress, and it has a perfect right
to do as it pIeases.
If at the present time Sloan were to
apply to the jockey club for a license
to ride or train it has the right and
power to refuse him if it so choose with
out reference to the English trouble, but
this naturally it would have no reason
to do, and if the license to ride should
be refused 1t would doubtless be due to
the publication in the English racing
calendar which is an official organ.
Sloan's standing with the other for
eign racing associations is practically
the same as 1t is in America All are
on the closest terms of reciprocity with
the English Jockey club, 50 he would
have no chance to ride anywhere If Of
ficially suspended in England.