South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-02-06
JUAREZ OFFICIALS
MAKE GOOD RULE
IN RACING CAME
Owners Cannot Fool Public
Again by Switching Jockeys
in Horse RaCeS-PractiCe
Has Hurt Sport.

NEW YORK. Feb. 6.-Juarez race
track officials deserve a commencing
slap upon their spinal columns for
their recent action in putting into
force a rule concerning apprentice
jockeys that will do much to make
the racing game more honest.
The officials long ago realized that
III they could devise some rules that
would reduce 10 minimum the num-
Der OF plausible excuses that horse
owners could resort Co when the fav-
orite horses lost the race. or when an
outsider won, that they would be TAX
ing a long step toward the goal Of
honest and clean racing
So they passed this rule:
Hereafter the apprentice allow.
ance viii be permitted only on the
horses owned by persons holding the
contracts on apprentice riders. This
viii not apply TO horses trained by
such employers unless they have own
ership in them"
That rule means much for the rae
ing game In the past the apprentice
jockeys have hgCred-uncOnsciO
perhaps--in many crooked races.
There are several ways in which the
crooked owners worked things
through the medium Of apprentice
Jockeys The most popular method
was this.
Let's say Bill Hanger owned a horse
named Kinky kink, who was COM
PEELED 70 carry 100 pounds in jockey
weight Kinky Kink couldn't do very
well with a 100 pound load, but he
always was sure 10 be in the fight
with "a % pound load.
The public knew this. 1t also knew
that owner Hanger had no appren-
tice iockevs-that he always rode the
pounds. Therefore. the public never
bet on Hangers horse; at least, not
in any amounts.
The race on this particular day is
fixed for Kinky Kink TO win. The
owner OF the horse knows that his
only chance to win is TO put in an
apprentice Jockey. because the rule
provides that whenever an apprentice
jockey rides the horse is given a five
pound allowance. That is. If the
horse, under the rules. is scheduled to
carry 100 pounds regular jockey
weight he need carry only % pounds
if an apprentice rides him.
At the last minute the owner Of
kinky Kink puts 80 pound jockey
on the horses back. With such little
weight Kinky Kink can go at his best
and he usually wins.
The public probably bet heavily on
the other horses in the race. They
never figured kinky ktnk To have q
chance because they know he can't
carry 100 pounds jockey weight ard
they didn't learn about the switch in
Jockeys until the horses were at the
post or had left It.
This switching practice has been
carried on extensively in the past and
every time il has been the public that
has been stung. The public rarely
figured that the owner of Kinky Kink
and horses of his kind would be ham
died by. apprentice jockeys because
the owner Of the horse did not en-
plOy apprentice Jockeys.
The crooked owners crossed"
the public at the last minute and
there was nothing in the rules 10 pre-
vent the borrowing and the switching
of riders.
The Juarez rule prevents further
borrowing. An apprentice jockey
cannot ride a horse and get the five
pound allowance unless he is reg
ularly employed by the owner of the
horse An owner, in future. who
wants to use apprentice jockeys must
make public the fact that he is en-
ploying apprentice Jockeys. That will
act as a ''tip-off to the public and
remove at least one of the many prac-
tees Of crooked race horse owners
so "flm" the public.