The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-07-14
LAKELAND KICKS
ON PRESENT STARTS
Too Many Horses Are Beat
Before the Barrier
AscendS.
ALERT JOCKEYS ARE ALWAYS
MOVING, HAVING ADVANTAGE
Horsemen Are Registering Big
Kick Against Present
Methods.

Tribune Special Sporting Service.
SHEEPSHEAD BAY. l.. r., July l3,
William Lakeland, the horse owner.
breeder and trainer, is against the fat.
footed start now in vogue under the
rules Of the Jockey club. 'Wc are
not getting real starting, Lakeland
declared the other day. ''Too many
horses are beaten when the barrier as
cends TO call il starting. But our
starts are neither atfooi nor moving
starts They are mixture of the two,
The alert jockeys--Miller, Radtkc and
Dugan-have their horses in motion
when the barrier ascends almost IN
variably and the other youngsters are
bat footed The alert jockeys get run
ming starts, the others the other kind
No hoy could properly be called an
alert Jockey if he did not keep his
horse moving AT the barrier. ! never
let one of my mounts come 10 stand,
7 had him on his toes always. If ]
were riding these days j would do as
Miller does,
1.-THE firstclass riders run the risk
Of incurring the dispIeasure Of the
starter, because they are employed by
big stables. which protect them. aud
because they have confidence in them
selves. The boys who are learning keep
their mounts still RS the starter com
mauds. because they are now and timid
and lacking i'll self-confdence.
1.-THE starting is therefore generally
unfair TO persons who do not employ
be unfair so long as the starter tries
10 line bis fields at the barrier and
make them stand until he gets ready
TO let them GO Nothing but the NOV
ing start will even things up. And il
is idle to talk OF the moving start be-
ing effective only when fields are small.
The only time passabe hat footed start
"The bigger the fields the greater
the need that the horses approach the
starter grouped and in motion, and that
the barrier be sprung before they have
time TO wheel and Kick. II is posi-
lively a mystery to me that the Jockey
club has so long insisted upon main
tanning the fat.footed start. Horse
men have always objected to IT. We
have done our best to have the moving
of all kinds. | do not believe any man
can succeed with the hat-foot start.
The fat-foot start is not alone un-
fair TO the public, it is unfair TO men
who raise high-clsss horses to race un-
der their own colors. and il is unfair
to men who pay big prices for runners
others raise. Many a first -class animal
has been ruined at the barrier since
fiat-foot starting came into vogue.
Some are made sour by the rough hand
ling to which they are subjected; others
are kicked and others are lsmed bv
being whirled about
-'tt is worse than idle to talk of
trainers schooling horses TO tanely
stand at the barrier. In my expert
ence I never knew of but one horse
that would stand perfectly still and
break at the word OF command That
horse was Searcher. No 2-year-old will
stand once he is broken. ] know this
because ] have tried unsuccessfully too
many times TO teach 2-year.olds to
start as the Jockey club orders
''1t is idle to say that quick bows
have as great an advantage under the
moving start as the hat-foot start gives
them. Such theory is against com.
mon sense The moving start as nearly
equaIizes the chances of all horses and