New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-05
NO DEARTH OF
ABLE JOCKEYS
THIS SEASON
Wilson Only Prominent
HorSeman Not Provided
with a Good Boy.
BUTWELL TO RIDE
FOR ANDREW MILLER
Dugan to Do Most of the Work
for Belmont-Knapp and
Parsons Get Lotus.


Richard 7. Wilson is the only prom
inent Eastern horscman preparing 10
take part in the racing in this state
next season on a big scale who is not
provided with an experienced Jockey.
Eddie Dugan has returned from Europe,
where q couple of seasons stiff dis
cipline taught him the folly of rough
work, TO pilot the horses that will bear
the silks of August Belmont, and
Charles Borel, the youth who won the
Futsrity a couple OF seasons back for
Harry Payne Whitney, with Pennant.
will do the heavy work for the stable
of James Butler.
Jimmie Butwel, who was under con-
tract 10 Colonel !. NJ. Parr and Jere
Wheelwright, Of Baltimore. last season,
has signed TO ride with Andrew Miller,
n steward of the Jockey Club and own
er of the brilliant Roamer. LOTUS, an
other American who did excellent work
in Europe for a couple of seasons, wall
ride for Harry X. Knapp, another stew
ard of the Jockey Club, and Schuyler
l.. Parsons, president OF the Coney ISL
and Jockey Club. Captain +. u. Cas-
satt has re-engaged Tommy Davies and
little Ryan, the former TO do his heavy
work and the latter his light riding.
Quincy Stable Well Supplied.
The Quincy Stable, which sent the
light footed Virginia bred colt Trojan
to the post at Saratoga last summer to
win the Futurity, has three boys under
contract for the service here and in
Canada of a string of thirty-odd horses.
Burlingame, TrOjan's rider in the Flu
J. aA 70 Wis
of the stable Stephen Lawler will take
West in the spring for the meetings at
Douglas Park and Churchill Downs,
Louisville. and then campaign over the
Canadian circuit, returning to the East
by way of Saratoga. His first impor
tant race, if the plans of the stable do
not miscarry. will be the Kentucky
Derby, for which Lawler is pointing
Trojan.
Joe McCahey Will remain in the East
throughout the season 10 ride for the
division Of the Quincy string his de-
veloper and manager, James F1tzslm-
mons. Will train. and Ambrose Will
campaign in Maryland and on the Can
adian circuit with Little Nike Daily
and Edward Phelsn, who will have elev-
en- runners Of the Quincy Stable be
tween them.
Clifford a. Cochran had first call on
McCahcy's services last season, ana,
failing TO secure renewal Of that ar
rangoment. he has engaged Lilly,
Western youth who made something Of
a name al New Orleans. Mr.. Cochranc
requires the services of first rate boy,
for in addition to three or four shIity
campaiCncrs Of mature age he has up
ward Of a dozen high class and eX-
pensive twO-year-olds training at Aiken,
S. c.. under the eye Of W. K. Mldgeiey.
Lilly has the reputation Of being quick
at the barrier and fairly good over a
distance of ground.
Rowe TO DEPEND on NOtter.
James Rowe will depend on Joe Not
ter 20 do the heavyweight riding OF
the stable Of Harry Payne Whitney,
and Albert SimoLs. who Is training Mr..
Whitney's second string at Norfolk, IS
looking about for q scrviceable light
weight. Notter gets pretty heavy over
winter. but he has assured Rowe that
he viii be able to make III or III
pounds pretty much throughout the
coming season.
Richard Carman. who is winterinG
his stable at Bennings track, near
Washington, has re-engaged Stanley
Davis. the youth who piloted his horses
on Inc big tracks last fall, and Schut-
finger. dropped at Havre de Grace in
by the Quincy Stable, has
signed up with W. 7. Anderson, who
is wiuter.nC bunch of well bred
horses at Grayesend track. Kederi5
expects TO free lance under the man
agcment Of Dynamite Jack IhOrnby and
Buxton Will ride for K. j. Mackenzie,
Of Winnipeg, the owner Of the Brook
lyn Handicap winner, Buckhorn, and
the promising three-yea.- old FLY Sea
Shell.
The Wicklife stable, which is owned
by Price Mckinney, of Cleveland, one
of the principal stockholders in the
Juarez racctrack and the proprietor
now of the cream of the stud left by
the late James X. Keene, Will depend
upon a Western youth called Rice, who
- doing good work at Juarez. The
Wicklitfe stable Is not as strong this
wear as il will be later on. 1t is the
intention Of Nh. Mckinney TO follow
the lead of the late Mr.. Keene and race
the horses Mss Elizabeth Daingeriield
breeds for him al Kingston Farm, near
Lexington.
Ural a Promising Boy.
If Mr.. Wilson has no rider OF ex-
perence for the big work of his stable,
he has a promising apprentice in little
Ural, and he may engage trst string
Jockey before the season opens.
Thomas Hcalcy. Mr.. Wilson's trainer,
has gone to California TO look over the
Panama Exposition, and he will inspect
the talent at New Orleans and Juarez
before returning home for the purpose
of making a judicIous selection.
Johnny McTaggart, leader among
American jockeys last season, in spite
of his long midsummer suspension for
rough riding, belongs by contract 70
Hugh Penny. Penny has not yet farmed
out first call on McTaggart's services TO
a big Eastern establishment, but he
probably will not experience difficulty
in placing the young man after the sea
son begins. McTaggart has recovered
his spirit and Is IN excellent form
again.
Joe Byrne, one Of tho cleverest Of
American jockeys d few seasons back,
has been inactive for the most part
81 zee his return from France IN 1917,
but he will come back this year as
the regular rider Of the strong stable
of II. {. Hallenbeck which +. w. He'll
ner is training.
Anthony Neylon, who made some
thing of a reputation for skill as a
pilot of distance runners AZ Saratoga
Springs last season, has been re-en-
gagged by jefferson Livingston, who mas
a String of hrst rate English bred two
year-o.ds in the west under the man
agen,nt Of Herman Brsndt, one time
the trainer of popular old Jack Akin.
Mr.. Livingston's horses will race in
Kentucky through the spring and early