Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-08-06
CoLORED JOCKEYS

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A dispatch from Lexington. KY, says:
The present racing season shows plainly
the passing of the colored jockey. While 1t
Is true WINFIELD Is winning honors in the
saddle In the land Of the czar, and D. Aus
tin has had a number of winning brackets
in the west this year, there is today no
colored rider to be mentioned in the same
breath with such jockeys as Lyme. Hide
brand, Shaw. Odom, O'Neill, BARNES, ].
Martin, w. Davis and Redfern.
The colored rider traces his origin to
ante -bellum times. He was the product Of
slavery. becoming race rider for his own
or because he lacked the physique for work
In the fields. After the war racing again
f1ourished in the south, and 1t was hard
In the early seventies to get white boys to
work alongside Of the then free negroes the
latter had opportunities at that time which
do not exist today. SO strong were the col
ored riders, even a decade back, that at
one time at Washington Park, Chicago,
they had in formation an organization TO
control all the choice mounts, and the Chi
cago daily papers openly charged at the
time that such a trust existed. and the &C
cusation all but brought on one of the
greatest turf scandals Of recent years.
east and win laurels he riding AsterOtd,
Norfolk. Watson, Merrill and other stars in
r. A. AleXander's WOODBURY. farm stable.
He won the Trayers stakes with the latter
at Saratoga in 1866. Brown Dick. now ia
nous as a trainer, Ben Brush being one of
the stars he developed, was also success
full jockey in the time of Old Abe and rode
many winners for Alexander and Dan
Swigert.
After Old Abe and Brown Dick had retir
ed, the best colored riders to follow were
Jim Ross, John Clay and John Samples.
The former rode the great horse Wanderer
for Rice & Mccormack, Sample rode Long
fellow for Uncle John Harper and Clay
was in the employ of Major b. G. Thomas.
The latter quit the saddle after being bad
ly injured by War Jig falling with him In
a race on the Kentucky Association track.
After a long lay up in the hospital he final
ly recovered and later became successful
trainer. He has prospered in business in
every way since he quit the saddle, and Is
today the wealthiest of all colored jockeys,
owning some very valuable real estate in
this city.
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Sample, who won the Monmouth cup at
Long Branch. in 1871, with Longfellow,
soon had to leave the saddle on account of
his weight, and was at last account on the
police force in Cincinnati. Ross died years
ago Of consumption
The next era saw William Walker and
Noah Haywood the leading colored riders.
The former will live in turf history for
all time he rode Ten Brock in all his
record-breaking performances. He is now
training public stable, but for a num-
Der of years was John E. Madden's right
bower Haywood won the inaugural Ju
yenile Stakes at Jerome Park with MecO,
and later wore the colOrs Of the late Gov.
o. Bowie of Maryland to victory. He Is
supposed to be still living in that state.
Isaac Murphy. perhaps the greatest Of all
colored jockeys, came into international
prominence when he won the Travers
Stakes at Saratoga on Falsetto. defeating
James r. Keene's great horse. Spend
thrift. This was in 1879, and for years
afterward Murphy was star OF the pig
skin He won the Suburban Handicap
times with Modesty. Volante. Silver Cloud
and Emperor of Norfolk, and was for
several years the highest salaried jockey
of his day He rode over 800 winners. do
ing his last riding in 1895 He accumulated
a fortune but lived very high after his
retirement from the saddle and left but
q small estate when he died IN thls CITY
several years ago. Next to murphy fike
BARNES. now said TO be dying in Columbus.
Ohio, is probably Americas most noted
colored Jockey. He won the first Futurity
with Proctor Knott. and In both 1888 ana
1889 was the leading winning Jockey III tnis
country. having 2O6 winning mounts in tine
former year and 40 in the latter. he also
rode 113 winners in 1890. which was the iast
season he was able to ride at medium
weight Barnes dissipated the fortune ne
40 Ca sin, made in the saddle. and Is now
reunited as being in pennilesS cohditloil-
In both 1893 and 1894 Willie Smhs Mas
the leading winning American race rioer'
In the latter year his winning mounts Iiui u.
hared 1So while he rode 22S winners III
1894 Simms had other good years Wa
ming $50 races with his mounts IN ~, Iss u.
10 ,n 1882 &, in 1895, 90 in 1876, 10 IN
1907 and GO in 1898 He won both the Ken
tncky Derby and Suburban Hanuicap on
Rem Brush He Is still riding abroad With
fair success.
r,sre ore few riders more popular than
ANDY Hamilton was at one time III TINS
country He first came into promihepco
when he won the American Derby on the
long shot, c. H. Todd. back In 1871. III
1sa5 he won the Suburban on Lazzarone. In
1890 he won the Futurity on Potomac. ana
In 1906 the Brooklyn Handicap on Sir wal
ter In 1895 he rode thirty-two winners.
70 in 1856. 90 In 1887, A in 1888. lib 1SS9.
1913 in 1890, 1o4 1891. p In lsS2 90 IN 1872 oSS
| 18 in 1898, 10 in 1899 and 5 in 1900. a total
of S27 winning mounts. He died last year
| in Austria In which country ne was sui
riding with success
Handicap on Tillo, the Kentucky Derby on
ARA, and many other great races, vas
prominent as a jockey for many years
Clayton bought some property In the ives.
during his successful career as a jockey,
and is now one Of the colored riders who
has something to live of of In old age.
Tom Britton once showed as much abil-
| ity as any Of the colored Jockeys. He was
injured in a race at Chicago, and when he
got out of the hospital his mind was slightly
Impaired He was known thereafter as
crazy Brtton. His two best seasons were
| in 1891 and 1892, when he RODE respectively.
seventy-eight and eighty-one winners. He
died in this city several years ago.
Milton Young says John Stoval was the
best Jockey on a two-year-old he has ever
seen, not even excepting Jim Mclaughlin
Stoyal rode many seasons and for long
| time had good average success. He Is still
| around the tracks and light enough yet to
occasionally take a mount.
r. Williams was one of the colored riders
above the average and won many races