Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-25

that track some. Anyway she won the
race and put several hundred dollars
into the boss pocket"
That determination to do or die of
Dorothy's is what makes her a rider.
She says:
1.-THE horse is not to blame. It's bad
treatment that makes him Ugly and fear
Of him that makes a poor rider"
She never strikes a horse and never
whips in a race unless her horse is really
lazy, and she seems to know when she has
all the speed a horse has got.
Dorothy is not tall for her age, but is OF
heavy built, weighing 1O7 pounds. She
has a large hand and powerful shoulders.
That she is muscular may be Judged from
the fact that she can pick a hundred pound
keg of nails with her finger ends.
Her mother hopes that this will be the
girls last summer on the race track.
In speaking about her daughter Mrs.
Kincel said:
Jockeys Life a Hard One.
ut is a hard life in some ways. When
we were in Rock Rapids. Ia, Dorothy was
under contract to ride in Sioux city for
SlUu, neT IlTSI race btllS Ol odlIIldy alter
noon. She had not finished her race in
Rock Rapids on Friday afternoon when
the passenger train pulled out-the last
one to get us to Sioux City in time-and
she was riding when the freight that
followed pulled in.
There were lots of horses going and
her mare, and such a hustling for that
train! Sweatly horses. Dorothy in her
Jockey clothes and all the other jockeys
We rode all night In an old box car. as the
caboose was full Of drinking men. 1t was
that or be 800 out of pocket.
You see the life is lard. But the girl
makes good money for two or three months
that help TO support us and send her t.
school. This winter she has been in what
would be called the ninth grade in the
east.
Best OF all, she has not been spoiled.
II they cheer her-and she never steps
onto a race track but what they begin
to cheer her, when they see her coming
even off at a distance-she simply doffs
her cap to the judges and the grandstand
and mounts. She never pays any atten-
ton to the demonstration that is made
She is all business,
She won't talk horse and is rather short
answered to those who want to talk tc
her, sometimes even rude.
only once have / ever had to scold hei
and that was two years agp when | caught
her playing dice on the grass in front OF
the stall with another jockey. Imagine
it, And she had won 40 cents worth OF
candy from him, She knows better now
though. But it did look cunning, for she
was so small then.
THE regular racing season out in the
northwest does not begin until June, but
Dorothy has to drop her schooling in March
because she has to begin then to exercise
her horses. This takes up half a day and
necessarily during the warm hours
Again Under Contract.
Last year she rode for three brothers
One of them had a colt on which he pu;
a heavier rider than Dorothy. The ami
NAL bolted into a tree, famed a shoulder
and broke three ribs. After he got well
he was turned over TO Dorothy. who started
him in a race and won first money.
This season her employers have Mon
tauk Neil, Lady Nurnaugh and Green
wich, a 2-year-old in May, on whom she
has to put a saddle this spring.
The girl is a true daughter of the prai-
ries. She is a splendid shot with a rifle
and can IRE from ner morse as well as on
the ground. She can jump a fence three
feet eleven inches high with a run of fiji
teen feet. She can run fifty yards in 6i
seconds and she is considered the most
graceful dancer in all the country round,
One incident will show that she is fully
competent to take care of herself. Al a
dance in Alta, Ia, a man under the in
fluence of liquor asked her for a kiss.
She did not answer or look at him. He
kept bOthering her and finally tried to
put his hand on her shoulder. She said;
Take your hand off and go about our
business or I'll slap your face"
why, you wouldn't be so mean, you
couldn't do H." he said, and then tried
20 kiss her.
She struck the man full In the face and
others then put him out of the hall.
The girls plans for this season have
not fully been made. She says she would
dearly love 10 ride a really good horse in
a big race, but she sees no prospect of get
ting out OF South Dakota.