Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-23
ROUGH WORK
BY JOCKEYS
MUST CEASE
TOO MUCH DUMPING RIGHT IN
THE STRETCH
HIpALGo SAYS JUDGES SHOULD
PUNISH OFFENDERS
n
Victories of cIamor and Niblick Fla
grant Reversal of Forni--Timlng
Counts for Little in
Races
by HIDALGO


great deal of rough riding, and in the
stretch at that. 1t was not quite as bad
as the Doncaster St. Leger of 1901, In
which Aida, Fortunatus, Revenue and
Doricles, each in turn, had crack at
the Derby winner, Volodyovski, but IL
was bad enough in all conscience, anu
somc severe and copdign punishment
should have been handed out on more
than one occasion, which, 1 regret to
say, was not the case, although all three
Judges had their binoculars with them
Robert Leighton OF Vancouver, b. C.,
is the patrol rider on the upper turn, ana
that gentleman should be sure to report
anything of the kind which occurred IN
his bailiwick. 1t is to be hoped that the
ak will fall, IL any more of this work is
to be attempted.
lust once in a while the offender Is
green boy mounted on a big horse whose
action he is unable to control, but, III a
general way, the rough riding is done by
old and experienced Jockeys who seek 70
terrify the younger ones by threats OF
violence Such expressions as, Here,
YOU --- -, let me through, or III
cut you down." are of hourly occurrence
and were likewise at Ascot, all through
last winter. F
It is about time that such proceedings
were followed up by few enforced vaca-
tions Most of the offending jockeys are
in the employ of wealthy eastern owners
who hope, by having large stables ana
making numerous entries, to escape the
punitive results that would otherwise be
visited upon their Jockeys. The failure
to punish these youthful offenders has
ELECTED a great deal of comment from
visitors to the track who are otherwise
friendly to the management:
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We have had several sensations dur
ing the week. One of these was on Iues-
day last, when E. ]. Baldwin's black colt
Iisaro, by Rey ell Santa Anita out OF
Seven UP, covered the mile in 1:37 40,
the fastest mile yet run in California.
But what can you call a great race made
by a strong and well built tour-year-old
with 100 pounds on him or rs pounds less
than his weight for age under the Eng
lish scale? Bannockburn, now doing STUD
duty near ST. Louis for the emaciated
Barney Schneider, carried 12S pounds at
five years and covered the mile on that
old track at Oakland, with four sharp
turns (Santa Anita park has only three)
in 49, which is, in my belief, the pest
performance at that distance ever MADE
on any California track, up to the pres
ent day.
Tn sentember the Daily Racing Form
d
that had run miles in 1883 or better.
ERE were 112 horses in the list, which
did not include horses that had won on
straightaway tracks at that distance
and about a dozen of the lot were
horses that had shown undeniabie
stake form, such as Dick Wells, Hermls,
Ort Wells and one or two more thae
YOU might count upon your hhgers.
There were few horses in the lot that
YOU could call good handicap horses,
but at least sixty-five of them were
selling platers,s pure and simple.
This was about the way with Lisaro,
who. while in receipt of two pounds
from the winner Frank Flittner, had aid
he could do to beat Edwin Gum for
the place in Saturdays feature race;
and if anybody estimates Edwin Gum
above the selling platter class he is
very poor judge of horse flesh.
Every day that 1 live convinces me
OF the utter folly of the time test.
some of the best men in America are
and have been In favor of abolishing
it for the past twenty years, but right
here in steps your salaried judge and
says: Unless you can give me the time
of each race, by the separate furlongs,
how can I tell whether a horse is run
ming to form or not?" And as there
j already too much in-and-out run
ming on all the tracks the managers of
tracks do not feel like dispensing with
the services of the man with the long
finger on the dial of his watch.
Only Five Timed
In England there are Just five races
officially timed. These are the 1000
and 1000 Guinea races at Newmarket, the
Derby and Oaks at Epson, and the st.
Leger at Doncaster. Other races have
been timed there but not officially AT
Lingf1eld, which Is a straight mile
course and down hill at that, three
horses have run miles in 1:34 or better
One of these was the French horse
Mannezin, by Reuil, and the other for
eigner'' was the American horse Cal
man, bred by the late Pierre Lorillard,
but now owned in Australia by Sir
James McCul1och.
Two bad cases of in-and-out running
have occurred during the past week. One
of these was Niblick, owned by Henry
Mason. who was beaten over ten lengths
on the 10th inst. and then came out ON
Friday and ran away, Ia a romp. from a
better class of horses than beat him on
. the previous Monday. But on Saturday
came the deluge. G. II. Keene and his
brother had in horse called Clamor, by
Gold Heels, the Suburban winner of 1902
On his last start he had been % to in
some books and 80 to l in others, but
lIiiIUC llO CilOtt " WAib SNOAh dt ehOoO JuiCy
Odds
Bnt on Saturday 10 was what ISipyard
Rudling would have called another
story" He opened at so to 1 and was
backed down to 80 at which price he
went to the post, and to say that he
smothered his field with speed is express
ing It very mildly. After the race he was
run up from his entered price of $500 to
S1405, at which figure his owner retained
him. Keene autographed the horse east
on Friday night and the eastern pool
rooms probably got harder jolt than did
the bookmakers at the track.
"The man with the halter ON this occa-
sion was William d. Millard, owner OF
Baron Esher. that finished second in the
race. He says he enters his horses at
their true value, and he is going to stop
this thing of entering $4,000 horses in $500
selling races. But my belief is that after
winning that race at such juicy odds as
me did Mr.. Keene can afford to have sew
eral $500 runups perpetrated upon him.
Roy Offutt's good colt Kinsman, by
Borgia (brother to Mrs. Lucretia, M. d.,
was favorite In the race and Ouardi Sec
ond choice The day was disastrous one
for the books for three favorites won,