The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-04-02
But King George Opposes Man
ing Horse Racing Supreme IN
Personal Interests.
BEASLEY ROUNDS OUT
81 YEARS AS JOCKEY
Lord Ballingford Protest
Against Naming Thorough
breds by Initials.
BY JAMES DAHLGREN.

Special Cable to The Tribune.
LONDON, April Although Kin.
George intends to bestow his form
encouragement upon the social aspec1
of the turf, it is an open secret al th.
court that his majesty does not me.1
to elevate the sport of horse racing "a .
supreme place in his personal intercs11
King George is firm believer in phy1|
cal recreation for the nation at laro&
He desires to make it clear that, so a
as he as concerned, personal effort n
recreation deserves higher place 81
the estimation of the people than me-
attendance at spectacular horse "a
ing
Harry Beasley, the once famous Iris|
jockey who rode Cockler in the Live
pool trial steeplechase at Sa1dopI
park recently, and who has been pr0u
ised the mount on the horse in n {H
Grand National, is 80 years Of age al
has had wonderful career. lie D.
ridden in thirteen grand nationa||
eleven being successive mounts.
IhluCo lAi -Aohl Od16s
He won on Come Away in 1891, al
was second on three other occasion
He won the Grand Seton steeplecha1
at Aintree in 1870 and the two folio
ing years, and again In 1883 and 162I
He captured the big Paris hurdle o.:
on Seaman in 1881 and finished secon|
on Turco and Mohican in subseque1
years. On Too Good he won the va
liable Paris steeplechase in 1883, vi
finished second at Aintree with the sa1
horse three years later. Beasley h1
been riding since 1877, his last mon
in the grand national being in 1892 d
Billie Taylor, who, however. bolte1
He is the SON Of Joseph L. Beasley d
County Kildare, Ireland
Lord Ballingford, who is somethin|
of turfman, recently published a Qz1
test against comparatively snew Gu
tom Of clubbing thoroughbred horses q
initials instead of names. He says:
"Will you allow me to offer q w1<
of warning against the rapidly grov1u|
and mistaken policy of owners OF e.
horses and steeplechasers in cailtr
their horses by initial letters and ~
merals instead of by names2
HTo some this change of nomencI'
ture may seem harmless innovst101
but if extended / fear it may ultimnz1
ly prove detrimental to the future int
ests of the turf. The turf has hlthe|
been upheld by, amongst other thin
the Unborn love of Englishmen for
sports, mingled with a genuine tou<
Of sentiment for the cherished men
ries of the names of those eelebial+
horses who have first caught the judeo
ofbor fQruUW
races of bygone days.
Racing Memories.
"What sportsman has not heard
| little Amato, who won the Derby
1888, and now lies buried in @
of the loveliest spots within the r.
cincts of the Durbans, where, perh4
he now listens to the horses gallsp!
overhead, to the cheers of the assemn'@
| multitude as they pass the winni1
post7 What sportsman does not
light to call the names of the f1y1u
Dutchman, Voltigeur, Gladdateuf, "
nit, Blue Gown; Cremorne, the e
Ornonde, and other winners of the h'
Riband of the Turf, and the ma
stories and pleasant recollections 10 oQ
| nection with their careers and the
| reers of their owners7 And IN mQ
recent years, have we not heard W1t1
thrill Of pleasure Of Persimmon, II
mond Jubilee and Ambush Ilf''
Sporting men say Racecourse bo'
makers associations will do well 10 e.
tion their members to make as
some endeavor to keep within tne
| Tom Wilson Of Compercial road Ho0
| have driven mad those Judges who "a
defined walking-stick as q ''pis<
within the meaning Of the act. At to
tenham races he had a four wheeled
round which he had planted four r.
poles bearing a structure, and 10. q.
of the caution. of the deputy ch!ef o2
stable proceeded to bet from q
clearly brought the prosecution on
self, and was rather lucky IN esc2l
with fine of ego and costs. WE
man persists in running his
against a stone wall he ought not 90
astounded if he hurts himself
An English observer remarks,
the stout and elderly commercia!