The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-05-17
TWO FRENCHMEN SEEK
LAURELS ON OUR TURF
Pierre Taulelle and Eugene
MOreau to Ride Here.
FORMER A WASHINGTONIkN
Both Jockeys Have Met With Signal
Success Abroad and Will Apply
for License at Once.

Racegoers will doubtless. ere long,
see two new faces among the ranks OF
jockeys around the metropolitan tracks.
Both are by birth Frenchmen, and have
won brackets on the French and English
TURF.
The boys In question are Pierre Tau
lelle and Eugene Moreau. The former
has spent the greater part OF his young
life IN this city with his parents, who
conduct a French restaurant at 1407 New
York Avenue. He was educated in Can
ada, and there gained his first experience
In the saddle. There he rode with mark
ed success at Fort Erie for a well-known
gambler of that place. who maintained
a large racing establishment.
Rode in This Country.
Taulelle then went West, and rode a
few races at Louisville and sailed for
France last January. He signed a con-
tract to ride for NJ. L. De Romanet,
whose racing stable numbers about for
ty horses. His success was fnstantan-
eous. Having taken on weight, weigh
ing IN at 107 pounds, he elected to ride
the jumpers. and adhering to the Ameri-
can method OF riding high" he electri-
fed the French turfmen. and soon be-
came the talk of the hour around the
tracks at Paris and Nice. His record
for twenty races was nine winners. eight
seconds. and three thirds.
Pierre is a bright. vivacious. and in
telligent little chap. He Is welI-edu-
Gated, speaks several languages fiuently
and loves the racing game, with all the
ardor characteristic of his enthusiast
tic race.
Why He Left France
His reasons for leaving France so sud-
denly. and thereby terminating what
promised to be a bright turf career are
both peculiar and interesting His father
left France shortly after the boys birth
and although residing in Washington
nearly twenty years, has failed to take
out his naturalization papers.
This coming TO the ears of the French
military authorities the boy was at once
conscripted and was doomed to three
years service in the French army.
Friends warned him OF his peril and be
Immediately fed 10 London. from where
he embarked, arriving in New York this
week. bringing Mordeau with him.
News of Tod Sloan.
Pierre tells of Tod Sioans career, and
says he is on the crest OF the wave
of success. This diminutive jockey has
a stable OF his own in which are several
grand horses. although the stable Is run
in the name of M Charon, with whom
he is associated Tod's assortment of
racing autos is the envy OF all Paris
He further added that the success of
Thompson. O'Connor, and Mcintyre con-
ttnues undated.
Mordeau has spent the better portion
of his life about Paris, although he has
ridden repeatedly and successfully on
the English tracks. He weighs but ninety
pounds and says he can do ninety five
easily. He rides on the fat exclusively.
He is thirty-two years old and says he
has been riding since he was fifteen
years of age. His two-year contract
with NJ Rosseau has just expired, and
being anxious to come to America, he
accompanied Taulelle. and is now at his
home in this CITY.
Both boys are to start for New York
next week and Will at once apply to the
Jockey Club for licenses to ride