The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-22
JOCKEYS WHO RACE FOR FUN.
GENTLEMEN RIDERS WHO LOVE
SPORT FOR ITS OWN SAKE.
They Get a Helping Hand From the Jockey
club and the Steeplechase and Hunt
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pendent Racing Stables - Trainers.
Gentlemen Jockeys nave won over the
Jumps and on the fiat at Bennings and in
the South this spring, and, before the close
Of Easter week they were sporting silk in
the North at hunt club meetings and later
on special occasions will ride at the Jockey
Club tracks. Amateur sport in the saddle
is good enough now to warrant several
Of the New York, Philadelphia and Boston
riders in keeping up racing stables solely
for the gentlemen races. There can be
no profit in a stable maintained for amateur
races, that is in a monetary way, but h
cares for sordid dross in comparison with
a thrilling gallop on the fiat or a sharp
burst in a steeplechase. with the glory
of being home first among a field OF good
fellows who also ride for the fun Of itf
Sometimes it is home in an ambulance
after a steeplechase, but the spice of danger
Is a fair set of for an excitement that is
only surpassed by war. In this country
/ last year there was not one serious acct
dent to a rider at an amateur race meeting.
although more than once minor bones
we're snapped in falls and the riders were
carried off the course on stretchers. In
| England there was one fatal accident in
n steeplechase, in which an army officer
riding in a hunt club fixture came a cropper
by taking of too short and broke his neck
in the fall. But even. in England, where
gentlemen have, mounts every day in the
season in steeplechases, the fatal Casualties
are infrequent and such a mishap should
no more turn supporters ava than a rail-
..,J ooo;lapt chp,i1d maka tha world and
his wife give up railway journeys.
Some of the amateurs who keep a string
of racing ponies and galloways are polo
players, the playing ponies and the racing
ones being kept in the one string. This
simpliAes the problems of mana cement
and the cost OF the upkeep, the latter an
important one to all but the very wealthy.
There are sprints for polo ponies only on
the card at every society race meeting and
sometimes a pony good enough for an
omen pony race may also be good at polo
for instance, Stanley Mortimer's stallion
Rondo. or The Grow, a noted polo pony
P. f. Collier owned and Foxhall keene
often won with ten years ago, but more
frequently the best polo ponies will be put
off edge for the game by being raced. But
IL does no harm to train them in the one
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ments seldom conflict with the important
society race meetings.
In many cases the owner OF a string Of
ponies has some horses in training on the
Jockey Club ira cks, but manifestly the
trainers and Jockeys of the great game
have too much TO do to bother with ponies.
Yet as a favor some trainers keep an owners
fast galloway as a hack, and get it into shape
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and st. Saviour in training for Frederic
Gerhard at old Monmouth Park, he had also
to attend to a very fast English pony called
Rosarium. TIL pony was a glutton for
work, and McCabe would send a boy to
Eatontown for the mail every morning on
Rosarium, in the calm certainty that the
pony would run away with the lad both
going and returning, thus keeping as hard
as nails. Sometimes the conditions Of a
race state that it is for horses that have not
been in a training stable for three months,
or some similar condition is appended, but
otherwise there is nothing against owners
haying their ponies or galloways conditioned
in a training stable at a race course.
Hurdle races for ponies 10 hands or under
at a mile and one and a half miles often figure
on the card at club meetings, and many
very good thoroughbred ponies are raced
in such events. w. Gould Brokav has
two flyers. over such jumps and at the
Woita While, and Grey Bud, by Boston
Boy-Grey Dossie, and Singleton , Van
Schaiok has another such customer IN
Simpler, by D~evotee-Muggs. But the
great majority of jumping races at the
meetings and those to provide the cream
of the sport. are of three sorts OF steeple-
chasersIfor half bred hunters; forthorough.
bred hunters, or open to all. me .a.teI
horses Of note in steeplechasing, while
regarding the hunters it is always stipu-
lated that they shall be bona fde, that Is
regularly hunted throughout the season
at a recognized hunt.
Flat racing on the great tracks would
continue undimmed forever whether the
amateur race meetings were held or not,