The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-01-26
AMERICAN JOCKEYS ABROAD.
Signal Victories Scored by Boys
Who Have Crossed the Sea.


Nowhere in the field of American en-
deavor in foreign lands have more sigma!
victories been won than by the Ameri-
car boys who crossed the sea 10 win
fame and money as jockeys. ard who
ack'tNGd success in England, in Ger
many, in Russia, in Austria, in Hungary,
in France, in Belgium-in every land
they have striven for the mastery.
first saw. the light in Hartford, Conn.,,
is England's leading jockey; Cash
Sloan, the elder brother of the more IA
nous Tod is the champion jockey of Rus
of American jockeys. is the champion
rider of Austria Hungary; Patsy Free
man Is leader in France; Eddie Ross
and Nate Hill are among the foremost
there is racing at Ostend and American
riders go over from England or France,
there American supremacy is unques-
toned.
Back of these boys in these foreign
lands there are other American riders
who have distinguished themselves. IN
addition to Maher. who leads all her jock
eys in percentage of winning mounts,
ter and Johnnie; Clement Jenkins, j. H.
(Skeets) Martin, Charlie Thorpe and the
Waldo brothers, Robert and Jed TaralS
compa triotS in Hungary were Sam Dog
gett and Indian Morgan, the Montana
halfbreed. France has Patsy Freeman,
Archie Mcintyre and ]. Buchanan. Ger
many has Eddie Ross, Nate Hill and H.
Sherrer, the latter rider a brother of Joe
Sherrer, who was a jockey of note some
years ago, and who is now acting as tie
manager of Jockey Spencer, who is rid
ing in California.
There are other American riders on
the other side of the big pond, but they
are not as we'll known as the boys nam
ed. Mitchell and Bergen did not go to
Russia until near the close of the racing
season there, SO they did not do much.
In Russia Hamilton, the colored rider,
was incapacitated early in the season by
a kick from horse, which came dam
gerously close to destroying his sight,
and in Austria. Doggett, who returned
to this country about a month ago, Ind
has been riding fair races here, seemed
to be unfortunate from the outset. Nor
did the Waldo brothers achieve much.
But Maher the Reiffs, Taral Jenkins,
Martin, Sloan, Freeman, Thorpe Ross
and Hill have had a most successful sea-
son.
It seems to be only yesterday that the
American jockey and the American style
of riding were the laughing stock of the
horsemen of England and the continent
Now the American jockey and the Amer
lean style of riding are the wonder, if
not the admiration of the world, and i'll
every cline the American jockey is
sought after as the most valuable of turf
possessions. Just about five years ago
Tod Sloan went to England. Sims and
Lester Reiff had been there before him.
but neither of these boys was so pro-
nouncedly American / style as was
Sloan. When the Englishmen saw Sloan
their scorn of his style inflated them to
the bursting point almost. Their guf-
flaws could be heard on this side of the
Atlantic. Their critics likened his posi-
ton in the saddle to that of a monkey on
| stick.
Sloan Opened Their Eyes.
But within a few weeks Sloan was the
wonder of the English turfmen. He made
| their best. jockeys look like novices; he
obliterated riding theories that had been
| cherished for more than a century, and
| his many and brilliant successes were
the talk of all England. Sloan was the
| pioneer of an invation that in the realms
! of peaceable endeavor was one of the
most remarkable witnessed in the cen
| fury just closed. To have gone into the
! home of the thoroughbred and among
| horsemen who had calm and impregna-
| BILE faith that they were the master
| horsemen of the world and to have
| humbled them, to have turned their scorn
| to envy, surely was a victory we'll worth
| the winning.
| secure, but he blazed the way to success
| for any number of his countrymen who
| cared to seek fame and gold across the
| sea. His success created a demand fer
! American jockeys, not only in England,
I but all over the continent, because the
! story of his skill and success was told
/ On all the race tracks of Europe. More
! than this, he helped to pave the way for
the American trainer, who, like the Amer
| lean jockey, leads the men Of his call
| ing the world over. Although Lester
Reiff had ridden in England before Sloan
went there, it was not until after Sloan
had been recognized as the champion Of
England that Reif became prominent
there.
Singularly enough fate practically
similar befell both boys, although the
| punishment of ruling off melted out to
| Reiff a little more than month ago Is
! much more harsh than the refusal of the
| English Jockey club to grant a license to
| ride, the action it took in Sloans case
In Reiffs case it closed his career as a
rider absolutely, but in the case of
| Sloan it left the candle of hope burning
| and while it burns there is chance thai
this boy-the cleverest that ever sat in
the saddle Of a racehorse-may be re-
| stored to favor.
This year Reiff was the strong figure
| In plotting William c. Whitney's Volod.
| yovsh to victory in the Derby he wor
| the distinction of being the only Ameri.
can boy to ride a Derby winner. The
triumph made him ripe for the sacrifice
and before the close of the season he was
| banished from the turf. Nothing fraudu
lent was alleged against Sloan. Nothing
| fraudulent was proven against Lester
Reiff. But both boys committed the higl
crime Of distancing all competitors il
the race to the goal of success, and botl
paid the severest penalty that a jockey
can pay short Of his life.
The American i0rKavc who r0dn IN