The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-07-07

the first half OF the season. Salvidcre
was q sufferer from acute toothache
during the early days of May. He lost
flesh and is to-day not really himself.
However, his cracking race behind
Frank Gill and Montgomery In the
Coney Island Stakes OF last Saturday
shows him a real great colt.
On the other hand. Peter Pan Is
at the zenith OF his powers Though
Peter Pan takes up l26 pounds as
against 116 pounds on Salviderefn back.
the former would be pronounced fa-
,vorite. The tradition OF the Rcaliza-
tlon Stakes Is that the champion three
took 1t last season. while Sysonby was
the hero the year before that and SO
on down the line. By this rule Peter
Pan Is the winner, for he Is undoubt
eddy tho best of his age SO far shown.
Radtke Will ride Ealvidere, while
Mountain Is almost sure to be In Peter
PANS saddle. for August Belmont Will
only require his services should Don
Enrique start, an improbable eQptin-
gency. Theo Webber is here with
George S. Davis from Buffalo, N. ".
with the expectation OF taking some
part OF the money. In many quarters
Harry Payne Whitney's Paumonok Is
regarded as the horse both Salvidere
and Peter Pan will have to beat, for
Liz us W hIckCIeSS COlLHlSf JUST now
now coming into stride. The Realiza-
ton Stakes come to hand on the last
day of the sheepshead Bay meeting. On
neXt "Wednesday the scene of racing
activity shifts over to Brighton Beach,
where the always delightful July
meeting OF the seashore course will
be inaugurated. The accompanying
table Of probable starters with jockeys
and probable opening prices affords
fair idea of the layout in connec-
ton with this richest of all three-ycar-
old race.
One of the foremost men OF tho turf
said to me the other day, "some rainy
day when you are short subject Just
write few words about the foolish
ness of parents and young boys in
imagining there Is a golden fortune
awaiting career in the saddles A
lot Of harm and trouble may BIO avoid
ed through warning these deluded in
dividuals."
It appears since the rise Of Jockey
Marvellous" Miller, with all the news
paper talk Of. his enormous money
earning capacity and regal life q
craze among parents to have their little
boys schoo!ed into Jockeys has be-
come rampant Not a single big train
or on the metropolitan turf but has
been pestered to distraction by would
| be Jockeys and their parental guard
inns who come around to the stables
at Sheepshead Bay and Brighton Beach
filled with the Idea Of their diminutive
sons some day emulating little Miller.
Letters by the thousands come in the
mall from parents soliciting an en-
gagement for their sons as appren-
tices. 1t has been always thus but this
| season the fame OF Miller has served
to augment the output and to bring
a big crop OF cranks. As a matter OF
fact no fewer than seven parents
most OF them trudglng along with
their boys by their side. visited the
quarters OF Trainer John Rodgers, Of
the II, p, Whitney stable last Sunday
As In every walk of life, the suo-
cesses constitute q very small percen-
jItage Of the workers In the rank and
4 file. Tor instance, there are at lea 81
.9,aoo gallop boys working every morn
Ing on the Long Island race-traclss
i They all hope to be Jockeys some day
i OF this army not more than ten
viii graduate into the saddle this sum,
mer, Then what Ia there 70 a Jockeys
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