The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-05-07

Some horses VIII run m IfOEl anu I4o- where else. Sometimes they have speed enough to stay there till the end. If so. they win; if not. they are passed and beaten. Others have not the requisite speed to take the track at once, but must needs trail till the ones in front, tired with their too early exertions, be- gin to come back. Such horses must be restrained, and sometimes the restrain ing is a very difficult matter. If the re- straining becomes too evident, then comes the howl from the grand-stand that the boy is choking the horse to death. They do not stop to consider that perhaps the boy is doing exactly what he has been told to do, with horse that possibly he never saw before in his life, and for guidance in the hand ling of whom he must depend implicitly on what the trainer tells him. Some times the trainer. for reasons best known to himself, gives the boy direc- tions which result in his being beaten, which is exactly the result desired on the part of the trainer, but, as Killing says, that's another story.
 For instance, one of the best trainers on the metropolitan circuit was asked lately his opinion of the riding of the boy he had engaged to ride a four-year- old mare, and who, according to the opinion of about a thousand disgruntled ones, was sorely responsible for her de- feat. The trainer in question has been in the business long, long time, and in addition to being a student of horses 1,n boc h marvellous success. to find out some thing about their inmost thoughts, as it were.
 Well" he said, after studying little, 1 perhaps I can put it this way better 1 than any other. When I put that boy up said to him: Here, you've got un- der you a mate that can run faster, and stop faster, than any horse ever saw. 1 Send her to the front if you can get her there; let her stay there as long as she can, but if they get to you you're beat en. Don't raise your whip or you'll get beaten quicker. She will run as fast and as far as she can on her own eour- age and all the whips in the world won't help matters. Now, remember what I tell you"
 Well, that's exactly what happened. They caught her near the sixteenth pole, she stopped, she was done, the boy knew it was no use and didn't go to the finish, although about million lunatics out in the grand-stand are still sure that if some strong finisher had been on her she would have won out easy. Do you know what would have happened if a strong finisher had been aboard and hit her. even once? No? Well, she would have propped and been last; as it was, she lasted long enough for third money"
 'But there is a reverse to this propo- sitioa?" he was asked.
 Certainly there is. I've got a one ycar-old in my stable who never gets ctarted withip fifteen minutes of the rest, and I always give instructions not to hurry him at all. When he won his firts race at Saratoga, I could almost have sworn that he jumped the fence and cut through the infield, he was SC far out of it when I took my last dis Icouraged look at him before I saw him win on the post by an eyelash. And yet I heard people saying: If he'd got off in front he would have won by a milev Not him Of course, if he had been closer up it wouldn't have taken so much out of him to get home, but there again you have to figure on the early effort to get him in good posi- tion, that might beat him. But as tc his running in front he can't run that way and that's all there is to 1t. If ht ever found himself in front he would be so surprised that he might stop to think it over, and it would be all off.
 Then I've got another, the laziesi brute of the whole lot. He nearly has to have his head beat off before you car convince him that it is time to be ur and doing. Why, I asked one of tho best boys in America to ride him last summer down at Brighton, and he said Not me: I rode him once before, and it's too much like working for a living. Besides, I have no doubt that boy took into consideration the fact that, win ol lose, but especially lose, he would bt criticised by some newspaper man, whc meant we'll but didn't know mucf about it, to the effect that he made en. tirely too much use of the horse in tho early stages.
 T don't know that I can tell yor much more about the way boys ridt horses in races, but except in a few in. stances they are told exactly how tC ride, and follow orders to the letter tC the best of their ability. In some o these few instances things happen in z race that are unexpected, and the keen, est witted boy is he who disregards hi, instructions if he is sure he can ge away with it. But woe to him if ht does not make good
 With this constantly before him it k only the master horseman who depart. from orders, and he only in exceptiona instances. It is one thing to be called up in the stand after posing on a heav
 fly backed favorite and have only tn, explanation to offer that your order.
 were to do certain thing, but vol thought circumstances justified you il
 doing something else; and it is anothe
 thing to be called up and state with tn, calmness born of truth that you rod, exactly to orders Its up to the traine
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 Why is it that you hear boys roasted
 in the grand-stand and read the broil
 ings they get in the papers, and the1