Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-01-23
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Frank o'Neil one Of the star jockeys of
last season and the boy who rode Beldame
In all her victories. arrtfed at the Gravesend
track Saturday to begtn framing Tor the
nington and Fred Buris6. : JSbn A. Drake.
the Chicago plunger, has second call on his
services. O'Neill earnfd $e5f9O last year.
While on a visit to his hone In Patch
Grove, wis, this winter he invested many
dollars of his savings in a big block of stock
In the principal bank of that town.
Jack" Joyner, the man who trained Wa
terboy and Hamburg Belle in 1903 and had
Tradition, the fastest two-year-old FLY OF
last season, in his stable. has sixty horses
in his charge at the ShespsheAd Bay track.
This is the largest number of thoroughbreds
in the care of one man at any of the New
York tracks.
Frank Duffy, well known as jockey dur
ing the days of racing at the Gutenberg
track, will sail for France on February 10.
He is under contract to ride the steeple-
gene Leigh, the American trainer, at sal
airy of 5000 for the season. This Is the
highest salary paid to a. cross-country rider
in Europe. He rode twenty-four winners
out of 1O2 mounts last year.
Eugene Leigh, the most successful trainer
abroad last season, has now nearly two
hundred horses under his supervision. Dur
ing the season of 1904 thOroughbreds in his
care won Zl0 races, OL..WAiCn % were on the
fiat and AT over the jumps. He had at that
time nearly one hundred horses in training,
and they managed to secure some part OF
the money hung up by finishing first, second
or third nearly five hundred times. The
stable, all told, won $4,000.
The dove of peace that has been hover
ing over the nest of turf spectators gath
cred at Hot Springs was badly bruised re-
Gently by a fist fight between Whitley
Langdon and Steve LHOmmealeu. It start
ed over a misunderstanding about side
wager and speedily developed from war
art of self-defense. Langdon was the aG-
gressor. He led with his left and landed
on Steve's nose. The friends of the New
York plunger quickly claimed first blood,
and 1t was allowed. because there were
good grounds for the claim. Then Steve
onds there was pretty fight under go-as-
you-please rules. The contestants were then
separated. but at twenty feet apart they
hurled challenges and offered to bet from
81 to $1,000 that they could whip one an
other with hand tied.
Tod" Sloan says that "Puddin' I" Nc
Daniel, the SO-pound jockey riding at the
Los Angeles track. is the greatest turf find
Of the season and the most promisi. rider
in America. Mcdaniel he said recently
to q friend. reminds me of Danny Maher.
He croucheS far up on a horses withers and
has good control of his horses head. He
seldom If ever uses his whip. and this Is a
good trait for a youngster. as they are in
clined to the whip too freely He is
alert at the post, and in finish has often
made Hildebrand, the leading jockey of last
season, look like novice. / have an option
on a two-year contract with 'Puddin' s.
father" The jockey is a grandson of Col.
Mcdaniel. the trainer of Harry Bassett and
other great horses that Jimmy Rowe rode
when boy.