The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-01-06
List of Youthful Riders Win
ming Fame and Fortune
With ThOrOughbredS.
FARROW RElNSTATED
By JOCKEY CLUB
American Turf Will Lose One Of
Its Best Riders in Willie
Shaw.
Tribune snecinl Sporting Service.

Tribune Special Sporting Service.
LOUISVILLE, KY, Jan. 5.-Devciop'
ment of Jockeys, new and old. during
the winter racing season, is one of the
principal things the "stay y-st-homes, .
and their name is legion. watch for,
Garner. the boy who rode the 1906
season S Metropolitan winner G-appIe,
is the particular shining hght Walter
Miller, the lad with the greatest mum
Der OF winning mounts, is going back
in his record Nichoi the boy who III.
vailed Miller most closely, and star of
the Western tracks. also is not riding
to his record. j. Hcnnessey, who gets
the mounts of the o Neil-Burlow com
bination, is well up, but more through
the superior condition or ms mounts
than his own ability.
Farrow, recently reinstated by the
Jockey club. who had a higher percent
age than Miller last spring. when he
was ruled of. has suffered under
starters suspension most of the time
he was restored to favor. Jack Mar
tin, oldest rider Of them all, only re-
turned from his wedding trip this week
and has not had time TO prove himself.
Legal complica tions over Guy and Will
lie Burns have put those two promis-
ing apprentices on the shelf And so
il goes.
Of the lot. Garner is the one most
looked to just now. He has developed
wonderfully since riding before the
New York crowds and NAV be most
important factor in the game next sea
son. Carlessness and lack of courage,
two things he showed at times IN the
East. he has forgotten. Time and again
he has been put on the fence by the
other lads. only TO come on and win.
In fact, his methods almost have called
for interference by the omcials and II
is freely predicted he Will be ruled of
before the season closes.
There is hardly better Judge OF
horses and their racing in the country
today than Willie Shaw. When he goes
abroad, as he does next year, because
of increasing weight. the American turf
will lose one of its best riders. Shaw
first came into fame as the Jockey Of
the late "Pittsburg Phil, and he
learned many lesson from that astute
student of turf affairs. He has been
noted as the first exponent of the g hand
ride, an innovation Of recent years that
has converted every trainer in this
country TO it. Shaw seldom, # ever,
whips and never uses spurs. His hui
name methods have paid well, for there
is not a trainer who does not say that
his mounts last longer at the game and
run more willingly after being raced
ride for NJ. Weinburg, a well.known
turfman He says frankly he expects
to make $4,000 for his year S work.
There he will not be asked to make less
than 1l2 pounds, comparatively heavy
weight on this side. Herr Weinburg
has a new string and there seems no rea-
son why Shaw should not bring as much
credit on this country as has Msher in
England and TaTsl and mis- son in Hun.
gary.
George Walker. Western trainer.
has the Weinburg horses in hand. His
success has been as great on the other
side as IL was here when he managed
o string for John ". Schorr, the Mem
phis brewing man. Then he won many
stakes. and with Shaw for his stable
jockey he should duplicate that per
formance in the Kaiser's land. Here
tofore he has been somewhat handi-
capped by lack of boys who would
Yide 10 his instruct tioDs.
Miller s nOn-success-one cannot call
it failure-has been due, apparently. TO
lack of good mounts more than any.
thing else The books have persis-
tently laid short prices against the
horses he has ridden. even though the
past performances warranted liberal
odds. That he will do better as soon
az the two-year-olds enter the field goes
without saving, for there his quickness