Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-06-11
sloan WIZARD JOCKEY
DURING RACING HEYDAY
lT Were Famous Affairs Attended
by English Aristocrats.
FINE JUDGE OF FAST HORSES
Once Lost 100000 Because Friend
Failed to Place 12-to-1 Bet on
Supposedly Slow Mount, Which
Tod Rode to Victory in Race.
By JAMES j. CORBETT.

By JAMES J. CoRBETT.
Fifteen years or so ago. when Tod
Sloan was in the heydey of his racing
career. he entrusted a be. 10 a pal
of his. with disastrous results.
Sloan lived in London then and made
practice OF giving Sunday night din
ners that were famous affairs. Many
of Enslands greatest aristocrais
gathered there. l, was just as one OF
those parties was breaking up in the
small hours of Monday morning that
Sloan called aside Charlie DIVER. son
OF the widely-known pwye- brothers
OF American racing fame. and said:
Charlie, here is $4,000 Isl0.ooo). Bet
it all on my mount in the fourth race.
and be, i; on the nose The horse is
real sleeper and ought 70 pay 10
TO l."
Dwyer who had placed many OF
Sloan's big bets for him. took ;he $40
900. ch:rped all Eight" and left for
his hotel But or the way re met some
friends and they chu1,1,ed around for
a while. AS !esu!;. Dwyer didn't &c;
to bed until "a. along in the morn
inS
sloan Rode to Victory.
That afternoon Sioan's horse opened
al II 70 and STAYED there Very little
, Tas ;hepEh: q ;hs changes .: ne
iIE piio,ed By the wonderful .Araer.can
Rider. But Tod Sloan rode one G.
the mos; :en'aEkaeie races .: MS
the finish lin. 4 winner - : hait
i lsns.nh after spectacular hn!sA il The
Dwyer at his hotel There was con-
s side, ,se delay delay in .sstias response
ever; sleepy voice said:
rs 'ha' you, char!:e?" asked sloan,
"Did yog &c, the De, down all -igh,2"
D~ RssE s W5y Te1essea the s.!i SLEEPY
Yes, DIVER had Slept rish, through
$4,000 tina, Tod Sloan ans SUPPOSED 20 w Sas
riding, at IL. to on the mount that
he had shot home in front
dollars n Wss al, ana tha 'TTenig shousant
mad cost Tod Sloan-3 o.o0o-that's
Famous Jockey Remembered.
.,a loa 81, sloan. as an individual. passes
and unrecognized. Tod Sloan. beam.
ing $50 or SO. despite his diminutive
stature. goes to the race courses now,
dropped by those fair weather
friends OF the long ago. But Sloan.
DRY or millions of racing enthusiasts
and whenever horsemen gather ana
TAX about SPECTACULAR performances,
most of them.
sloan eve, Will remain as the stand
ara iTdr by which all other Jockeys shall be
tpr. who introduced the monkey crouch
that provoked laughter at the outscI.
put which now is used universally on
every race course in the world Ii was
sloan who understood pace better.
perhaps, than any man that mounted
s.s, sliced. There was something un-
horses and something just as uncanny
about his judgment OF them in the
stalls and in the paddock
Many Remarkable Performances
Turf history records many romances
and many remarkable performances
and many stirring achievements. But
a aro F1 Isa OF nearly two decades
William &C G. w ssins CANA and. James r
keene we're bitter rivals in that year
Futurity that looked like certain
winner. And he had secured the best
b bssaa 70 '9 ssy IN v Ams5,ca Then he
victory over ,ae whitney stable ali OF
which ,ntr-ss,ed whitney.
I'll VIZ this FACE Il j, IS humanity
Wh!lne". and ~ ~ once cabled 10
Toe S!osn 20 .zne his own price 10
come % AMERICA and ride jus: one
race, tae Eutg.!:y
:i5.gto sad round ;.!p 70. .nyse.:
aHc Ns!t! "ss Slams .eply.
forr ;s:-as accepted" csbIed BACK
W'h!taey.
sloaa. u -.gzi s,y.e arrived in
An..tcz 80 Gay before the race ~as
run and Hes hurried OUT 70 II. WHIT
my stable
Mount Pointed %, to Him.
The'e.: ne morse yo- ere 70 r.ds."
Jus: ae:ore u. aad reached the stan
AFTER = glance a, ,-e ANNA. selected
~ Wn!iaey az rs entry 20: inc race.
Sloan said
THE o,ae- ho.s: i better one'
The trainers %! "n!taey and Wal:-
OF mind b. sloan. They explained 10
MIN that the horse they had picked
OFT vas oy 'ar the faster. tina, ,ne
other. Bai!!hoo Beg. was az Inferior
IN Sl 15,he !, Be; ,,as j. ne a?.s
Stick the otner horse in the race II
YOU. wan; and pu, some other rider
amount Of money that pea, tina,
horse by ten lengths"
sloans wishes. were granted AL
though skeptcai abou, IT,, whitney
in the Futur!ty. and Ballynoo Bey.
with Tod Sloan aboard. ro!nped ahead
an easy winner. vel! IN advance o.
the hated keene entry and almost 4
Whitney and the others had figured a
superior animal to Ballyhoo Bey
wizard of the turt--that was Tod
Sloan.-Copyrisht 1913, by King
Features Syndicate Inc.
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