The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-02-03
JOCKEY BURNS WILL
REMAIN in AMERICA
Popular Rider to Apply for
License as a Free
Lance.
TO BEGIN HIS WORK EARLY
Fixing Up Place at sl,cepshcad
Bay. and May Race
Il Stable.

PHILADELPHIA. PA. February e.
Tommy Burns, the American jockey. is
sbuzy this winter fixing up his place
to occupy In future. Burns had bet
Europe lust season. He was one OF the
jockeys OF the stable of tho Emperor
William in Gerit, ty and he headed
the list OF winning Jockeys With Wi,
places
Burns does not however, care 70 go
II. he declares. TO get any money g
mornings as we'll az ride In the after.
noon. alldlthe pay Is nothing like what
It Is cracked up to be. When, q
lockers earnlngs are expressed ,nns ,hd, II,
look bigger than when expressed In
dollars or pounds sterling.
More money can be made BY an
a the lt 2fksT narna sa i saf an
can be. made In .year on me other
side. Jockeys who say Inherently and
talk of the better conditions for racing
on the Continent Of Europe ure the
ride In this country.
Take 1t from me. there lis not an
american .1S Jockey who would .la,d not ri ,ae
fulness / am only twenty eight and
will be able to ride at lo2 or log
an convinced now that ] will never
become too stout Tor riding. know
there is a prejudice among horsemen
against Jockeys who appear TO be get
to my way OF thinking. sloan was
at least as old as / am. II he was
not older. when he began to get good"
1t is the Intention OF Burns to busy
co OF 0rf me n
OF weeks. Thanks to the uncommonly
mild weather OF the current winter
most racers in this part of the country
They are ready. indeed. to begin the
hardest training. Burns will apply
for II license as free lance. He rode
To ingratiate himself with horsemen
nc Will exercise, for them gratis
through the early spring. He hopes
Hitehcocls and Maiden stables. Ha
rode for Francis r. Hitchcock for sew
erai seasons. He wants TO celebrate
n big handicap or the Futurity He
does not propose. he says. to let his
brother Guy. who Is eleven years his
junior. outstrip him.
Guy belongs to the stable OF Rich
ard Carman, and he is making first
class reputation for himself on the
Pacific coast this winter. He Is indeed
more OF success than Tommy was at
Burns says the Emperor Of Ger.
many maintains one OF the biggest
stables in Europe. He pays for the
iced OF more than $50 ca:npaigners OF
various ages and sexes all the time.
But cares OF state do not permit tie
Kaiser to be at the ,iuck rs often as
he might wish. Burns saw him but
twice last season. ard on neither oc-
casion did the Emperor slap him on
the back or invite him to dinner.
Is an Englishn,an. wno has been IN
of thirty years. The Kaiser races
Engl sh horses Principally, ana his
oas nov he did when asd he began Hs
two pounds apiece. Burns Is of ,he
clrrion that 9 bunch of live American
trainers Inc With s| upt,date methods
regular year by year. There are no
n,audlin reforners In Germany saek-
;re to arrest the development OF the
thoroughbred by introducing anti
racing measures in the diets of the va
cipalitics comprised In the German
confederation. The stol,d l'eutons have
little sympathy with the kind OF hys-
terra that sweeps over this country
every few ycars.
nsay be his last year as Il Jockey. lie
has saved some money. and II liz cam
not overcome the pra1ui!". Of horse.
lrep against riders of tha advanced
age Of twenty-eight or twenty-nine
he will buy a stable OF two;.yesr-o!ds
and set UP as trainer as his friends.
Max and Hirsch and George Odom
have done already.