The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-07-08
Jockey Earns Wrath of Stew ards When He Allows Ting a-Ling to Bore In" on HOuSemaid.

Loftus resorted to foul means when he was fearful that he would not win by fair means at the Aqueduct track, yesterday, or so the stewards ruled. and as a result he must look on for two days or go fishing
 Loftus had the mount on Ting-a- Ling in the first race and was so set on winning that he allowed his mount
 to carry Housemaid almost to the out side rail in a. long head-and-head duel through the stretch.
 In spite of the palpable tnterfer- ence, Housemaid won by a short head. But the stewards disregarded this and, following out the mandate of an unfair rule, disqualified Ting a-Lng.
 suspended Loftus for two days and
 moved Thomas s. McMahon up to second place and Sedan to third place. l This rule of racing, concerning
 which much has been written, says: If a horse or jockey jostle ac-
 tualy to impede another horse, the
 aggressor IS disqualified"
 This leaves no opinion with the
 stewards and consequently the ruling yesterday was in strict accordance with the letter of the law. But the
 trouble is that the stewards are not
 always consistent and this, com bined
 with the faulty wording of the rule it.
 self. leads to much unfavorable crid-
 cism.
 Ting-a-Iing did tostle and more or
 less impede Housemaid. If he had
 won the disqualification wouri have
 been justified but inasmuch as House
 maid earned the purse in spite of the
 foul and as Ting-a-Ling had not in
 terfered with any other horse, it was
 manifestly unfair to punish w. C. Clancy by depriving him of second
 money and to punish those who Wa
 gered on the horse to finish second in order to carry out the mandate of
 rule which was not framed to meet
 such a situation.
 As matter of fact, the theory of
 racing is to have the best horse win and the second best horse finish sec , ond, and yet, under the operation of
 the rule, Tfng-a-Ling, the second best,
 which did finish second. was dtsqual- flied in order that punishment could be meted out to the boy.
 No criticism can be directed against , the stewards in this case-it must be
 aimed at the rule. But the stewards can be criticised for overlooking in | stances of the same kind day after day, and for overlooking an even | more fragrant case in the third race yesterday when Davies on Kits 2d
 almost put African Arrow and Loftus on the rail. and after finishing second
  Incidentally. Loftus escaped with a rather light punishment if the stew | ards considered the offense serious enough to heavily punish others by disqualfying the horse. It is pos l. sible that a tired horse was more re- : sponsible for the bearing out than the boy, and this may have led them T to be merciful so far as the jockey s was concernd. But the disqualified 5 ton was made offhand,- without Lof- 2 tus having a chance to speak a word in his own defense, which indicated y that they considered the boy entire ly to blame.
 Natural Bridge. which beat the once mighty Roamer at Belmont Park and $ has not run to that form since. was v beaten in the Iroquots Handicap by ' Blairgowrie, which has run some
 good races and some bad races this
 | year. He was at his best yesterday $ and came away easily after Chasseur @ and Leading Star had killed each l. other off in front.
 l. Jimmy F1tzsimmons was at a los: 1T to exp.ain Leading Star s bad race. He e was confident of winning, as the e horse had worked a mile in 1.38 Q whereas Blairgowrie won in .S9 with e Leading Star many lengths back Il 10 looks as if the son of Sweep mus e have things his own way and failing h that will not try.
 Harwood 2d making his first ap D. pearance of the year in this district Ia won the second race on his class anC of courage, but pulled up so lame tha H. he may not be seen under color: at again for several weeks. If he was ty sound horse he would be running fl le handicaps and not in chexp selling er races. m Class also told in the third race m Ticket, which ran second to Omal g. Khayyam in the Kentucky Derby O. r. 1917, showed enough a few days agC ts to justify following. but he. had few n- friends and was quoted at Is 10 l ,h Jack Goldsborough. his trainer, haC le faith, however. and carried a broad i'll smile the rest of the afternoon.
 C.. F.. Hall and his friends almos ed suffered apoplexy when Sunny Hil he was beaten a short head by John ] n- Day in the fifth event.. The geldin; at was backed from 30 to 1 to Is to l n- and after making all the running los tn in the last stride.
 1t. KeIsay handled John T. Day like h. Loftus. His patient, Well-1udged rid iti stood out in striking contrast to hi H. inpatient harum-scarum ride whel I'd he was beaten on the same hors se last week.
 ok
 cir Gladiator. one of the biggest two
 year-o1ds in training, is likely to g
 on to better things. He was gradu VII ated from the maiden class in the las
 ho,sa Asked why he pfcked Demp ls- house. Asheu wnS 1 m sey to win. Archie said:
 ,n well, you remember what Bo -. F-itzsimmons said: The bigger the ho are the 'arder they fa1I,' replied VII rt and remember. too. us. smal guy be have to stick together" o,, TOD SLOANE, the former world