The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-05-08
JOCKEY BURNS WILL
NOT RIDE ANY MORE
Luxurious Living Adds Too
Much Weight to the Once
Premier Rider.
BY JAMES DoCKERALL.

BY Leased Wire to The Tribune.
NEW YORK. May Tommy Burns
the premier jockey OF America in 1898
and 1899, will never again be seen In the
saddle, unless II is while chasing the
festive fox or canterlng through the
park for his health. Fat has got the
better OF him and he has become train
er. 1t is safe to make the prediction
that Burns will be a great trainer. for
he has been about the stables ever since
he was a boy. and he Is practically
young man yet-only 30.
to earning big money on the track l got
liking for a kind Of food that big
money buys and the result is that ]
can't keep the fat down any more. II
week after a vacation, but not now.
II j hadn't become good rider and got
big fees ! might have remained star
Can you figure out that last remark OF
Tommy's? II he hadn't been a good rider
he might yet have been a star! I think
there must be a strain OF Irish blood In
the lad somewhere.
But Burns has an ambition to become
an owner and a second George Odom
Burns and Odom used to ride together.
and perhaps some day Tommy may nave
colors OF his own. He hopes to, at any
rate.
Jack AtkIn will be seen again on the
eastern turf before the season closes. Al
cap IL was feared that he would be laid
up for some time, but Trainer Powers
shipped the old sprinter over TO Pm
lico TO fill out his dates there and said
that he was none the worse Tor hard
work here.
The Juarez, Mexico. Jockey club. the
youngest and most progressive OF mod
ern race courses, plans for next season
even greater enterprise than IL did for
it's inaugural meet last autumn and WIN
ter. With capital unlimited and char
ter which is founded upon governmental
It's promoters have determined upon
many improvements and upon pro-
gramme which will command not only
the patronage OF the best stables OF the
country, but the active participation OF
the foremost sportsmen Of this country
and OF Mexico.
AT a meeting Of the board OF directors
tcrmned to double the value OF the
stakes offered last year, to increase the
value OF the overnight purses, to have
six races every day and TO have the
meet begin Thanksgiving day. Its min
imum of duration will be until March
1. with the practical certainty that 1t
will be extended
They are Off now In Kentucky and the
famous Blue Grass state, which is noted
for its fine horsefesh. ought to furnish
some keen turf sport. The Lexington
meeting at Louisville opens. Opinion
over the Kentucky Derby IS divided be-
tween Waldo and Fighting Bob. But
the Kentucky derby Is an unknown guam
tity. Trainer Van Meter feels conf
dent that Topland can show clean pair
OF heels in the Kentucky classic, while
william Gerst believes that his Donau
has all contenders beaten in form and
dope. Don Antonio and Relluf. from the
George j. Long stable, are also consid-
cred.
Fighting Bob was entered in Louis
willie at Churchill Downs and what has
pleased horsemen much Is that he
has never had day in which he has
failed to improve. He has not been
sick minute. neither has he missed
work nor n feed. He is as lusty and
strong today as before he had an hours
derby training and looks as II he has
taken on flesh with every hard work
given him. Fighting Bob Is perhaps the
highest type colt that has come from
Knight of Ellerslie since Henry OF Ma
yarre.
Fighting Bob is trained by a skilled
horseman OF the old school, and he will
he ridden in the big classic by STANLEY
Page, who had the leg up on him In all
the colts 2-year-old races.