Show FEW COLORED JOCKEYS NOW white riders are the favorites of the turf fifty years ago negroes had almost a monopoly of training and riding race hores to day they have all but disappeared from the turf save as stablemen rubbers etc in the antebellum days the big land owners of the south constituted the patrons of racing from the owners standpoint it was natural for them to look tor for their stable help of every degree from among their many slaves with the establishment of racing at saratoga soon after the close of bf the war fol lowed by the opening of jerome park shortly afterwards the center of the racing endeavor gradually shift ed from south of the mason and dixon line to the terri tory around the metropolis the negro however had been freed before this and naturally natural lj stuck to the horses and followed them north the negro jockey floi flourished dished for many bears ears after racing was established in the north but his sun seems to have set with the passing of sims clayton and per kins the last of the negro riders to gain and hold the center of the stage for any length of time and about the only real good negro jocks known to the present generation of race goers |