The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-04-09
JOCKEYS WHO HAVE QUIT
RIDING FOR A LIVELIHOOD
Most of Them Go the Profsate Route and
Are Speedily Brought Down
to Their Uppsrs.

AS L say. only maze those ODSerVa-
tons to that shrewd little ex-rider for
the fun OF il. for 1 was perfectly fami-
liar with his attitude on the subject.
at his rep.y was funny.
Say he said to me, twisting around
in his automobile seat and pointing a
forefinger at me femme tell you some
thing like I'd tell it to an old matey
and boss of mine, which you are. /
wouldn't bet on a horse race if the
president of the Jockey Club and all
Of the stewards and judges were to visit
my house in the middle of the night
for the purpose of swearing to me
that they would disqualify every mutt
that finished ahead of my 500-to-1 shot.
Say, and he became even more ener-
getic with that forefinger, if there d
be at Benning match at a mile and
quarter between Sysonby, carrying a
seventy six-pound boy and no lead
pads, and the worst old ossified sausage
in Bill Days stable, carrying a bale
o hay and two members of the Fat
Mems Club, and you'd offer me 1o0-to-1
against Sysonby's chance, I'd soak you
with a half brick, and then run like
/ blaZes for fear that l might be tempted
to risk the price of two ounces of punk
l.
How's that? Dye think you've got me
tabled now? That's how good the
game is with me, and that's no morn,
ing glory workout, either.
SO there you've got the difference
between the jock with the opaque skull
and the one with the top piece suffi-
GENTLY diaphanous to let in little occa-
sional rays of light during the time
when he ir1'S in,
world is swimming in rose It's the
old down-and-out story contrasted with
the up-anin thing that applies to all
of US humans, but with a particular
force to jockeys, for they get theirs
quickly, and they've got to have the
toe weights and the balance pads at
an earlier stage of life than the rest of
us if they're to sink or swim when
their cleaning day has passed But
the pity of it is that most of the riding
youngsters are bone heads. and they
can never be made to see it when the
gilt tide is coming their way. Few of
them ever come out of the hoop-la
swirl with anything sworth taking ac-
count of. Y'see, they can't be con-
versed with on that money-hiding
thing. They get all swelled UP early
and they know it all, and then some.
THIS JOCKEY KNEW 1T ALL.
"Once / sat alongside one of this
kinda sure-enough premier jockey of
ms tlme-on parlor car going down
TO New York track He had ridden a
lot of horses for me, and I'd known
him since his apprenticeship days. He
was living then at a daily rate that
your Aston. who's recently joined the
Guards. y'knaw, probably never equal
ed in his life. Said to this jockey
bone-conk I sat alongside of him
in the narlor car:
You've got few pennies tucked
away underneath the oilcloth on the
top shelf of the cupboard. haven't your
oh, I'm worth about two hundred
thousand he replied, swelling out his
chest till it was fully twenty four
inches in circumference.
oh, y'are, hey?' said l. Well, that's
a pretty cunnin' stack of blue. amt it?
Now, how long do you expect to go on
riding and winning?
oh, till Bill Days elected mayor
of New York replied the prosperous
whiffet. impatiently. Let's spiel about
something else
Uh-huh, said I, wen talk about
something else, but just hold on a
minute, son. Let me slip you one of
those wise kind. What you want to do
is to get up in time for an early break
fast tomorrow morning, and then, after
your cantaloupe and Spanish mackerel
and coffee and such like, you want to
hike right downtown to some trust
company or other and tie about. say,
$4,000 of that little bundle of the blue
checks in what we call an annuity
Soak it away so hard and tight that
you'll never be able to loosen it with
a machine gun. That's what you want
to do. Got it?'
What did he do? He staked me to
a long yawn.
We'll it was only last year that I
happened to be passing in front of the
bookies' line at Gravesend when I saw
this same little man sinking UP to one
Of the well-known layers.
Hey said the busted midget to the
bookie, with forced rakishness gim-:
me a marker on that top horse there