The Alaska citizen., 1911-03-13


 nOunCcmcnt of the entries for a stake in the newspapers and people go 10 the track and view perhaps a dozen CT more splendid specimens of the thoroughbred in the paddock waiting the call of the bugle.
 Every horse has his own little band of admirers. and each of the sleek. supple bodies glistens with the polish that represents perfect health. IL has taken months of careful train ing to obtain that bloom. and how many days of constant watchfulness and how many slcepl,ss hours it has cost none but the trainer will ever know.
 It is not surprising. therefore. when something happens 10 mar the fruition of hopes nurfured for months that language helps to relieve the situation. A jockey may through carelessneSs or oyerContidenCe throw away a race which with care would have been an easy victory. or there may he other circumstances. all be yOnd the control of the trainer - a bad start or piece of foul riding. I recall race many years ago which will illustrate the point l am try, ing to make.
 "Willam Jennings Maryland Jen- nings, to distinguish him from the Western Jennings had planned coup of extraordinary proportions with three year-old called Dunboy- ne. horse regarded as a fair per former but not in the same class as Hanover and other stars of the same IA, ,-. guarded his colts real quality that when the day for the running of the rich Realization Stakes came around and DunhOyne's name was among the entries all but few of the Mary flanders trusted friends believed that the second CT third money was what he was after. and the race was re- garded as a gift for the Dwyer can didate. Hanover. with young Me Laughlin in the saddle
 Hanover was a horse of a splen- did turn Cf speed; but had a high headed climbing way of going which would make a good judge think he would not stay over long route. He was a rank horse too, hard too control and fought a rider from the instant the flag dropped His noryous energy was on tap all the time. and Jennings planned shrewdly for months how he would take into camp the recognized champion of the year among the three-vCar OldS.
 He looked long and critically at the work of the jockeys perfOrming hat year. before making a selection of a rider in the Realization. finally settling upon Garrison, then coming 10 the p~int where he commanded more money than any oth~r rider in America. The Snapper. as Garrison was Hicknamed by Father Bill Daly. who brOueht him out. vas famous for his powers as fniehcr, and Jennines helievrd that win a dead cane horse like Dunbovne under him in the last half mile Hanoycr'5 col ITS would hc lowered.
 "HanOvcr because of his successes in ether big events that season was penaliznd to the limit. while Dun boyne received all the concessions. so that whil" McLauphlin had heavy lead pad under his saddle on Hanover there was nothing on Dun hovne's short stout back but 110 pounds of daredevil impotence. was friendly with Jennings and stood within earshOt of him when he gave Garrison his instructions, and in fact l had bet some money for the Mas ter of Glingar. that being the name of the Maryland place not many miles from Ba'timCre where the old gentleman had his comfortable home.
 "'Now Garrison said he Han overs a rank going horse and they can't wait with I'm even if they wanted to. and I want you to lay up close enough 10 aggravate him, When you are five furlcngS from home don't be more than two lengths away from his tail and at the half mile pole come right along. You've got a game colt under YOU and don't spare whip or spurs if you have tC use them
 "'All right. PoD.' was GarrisOn's irreverent comment as the veteran concluded his instructions. and moment later he was in the saddle and tying a close knot just behind the ears of the little stout bulldog son of Uncas.
 Garrison rode with a shorter rein than anybody else in the world. and to my mind he was the original rider to adODt the forward seat. though his stirruns were never so short as those used by Sims. Sloan and others who followed later There was the stroneest rivalry between McLaughlin and Garrison at this time. Both had come from Bill Daly's school but the former had long en- loved the prestige of being the lead ing American jockey and he resent ed the pretensions of his younger rival
 Garrison had been acclaimed in vincible in the final part of race and the Garrison finish was being taken up everywhere. It was tenn pestuous, hustling rush in the last hundred wards that seemed to pick up a tired horse and carry him to victory by inches. Time and again he had snatched races out of the fire. and the public, always prone to adore the spectacular, were ready to believe almost anything possible if Garrison had the mount.
 "It was only natural that the boy should become sDoiled The ap- Dlause of the crowd was music to him. and there were occasions when he was accused of waiting too long in order to brine tho crowd to a frenzy by the briliancy of his horse manship at the wire. It was this characteristic which probably made him forget the instructions he re- oeived for the guidance of Dunbovne in, tt.ho hn