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Show 1ft CLEVER JOCKEYS OUTWIT It . THE BEST OF STARTERS Rers Should Nol Be Punished for Over-Anxiety I Ir We Kind 'Wlio Are Not Trying Being " the Ones to' Discipline. j'B.''. -pi II., BRADLEY. probably tlio "H IS'' '' 1 Orgeat breeder In thn 'count ry iP ' r at- the present timo. has como ISps? '' nut-openly against the present bvh- H' Hffll" te,u of" starting iiml luls declared Unit W' ' 30 1,0 wUI v!in'y ib"- tliihl lo lllQ Ke" j ; fucky ruicing commission so thnt $ " lK"'l' ' I)avo direct jurisdiction K, ffif - ovor the startup and make htm be re- h- HFT sponsible, to that body ulbno Tor Ills SkW ncts a,ul noL ,0 ',,u tmc!c "i:,'mS- fV UB. ' men. At present tho track owners lit 'By .naino the starter and In; reports to lii 3k. ' them, even thu presiding Judge nol l ImlZ having nnv control over his nets. '(W gJP' It bus always been 9011 tended bill bi-ll jS:' tbiM lit a position lo know that the aSf I i star! was vested with too much Jj1 2J ; - powoi- In tlvc mattor of impending 8i JbeUey:. ' Uu- could prevent a boy !W ft&i'-z from riding at all by, suspending hint 5yi!: for ' wol -'r tWrt nnu 'ben susuend-flEf susuend-flEf i8? ' ' -,nr when h made his appear-fjtf.l appear-fjtf.l ante In tho saddle. py ,. Orr ' ' T1' vas suggested that when a boy liHiti I was disobedient on. outside . 3" 1 'f ' mounts ihe starter susp'oiid him 1' ;, rfT,- from taking any mounts outside of '5 lr ' hit!, stable for a certain period. If '3' ' Mr- ,,H V,,M dlsobcdfOnt while rldlnpr for w H i." "' employer thrn he could be sus- 1 pemlc-d altoKOthcr. It was also point - ;gi rflV' cd nt tinto that It was an jft t Injustice to have a man pay a boy a I jjl sood salary, permit- him to mal;c ?l i 9 . Honic extra money by taklm; out- il J 3 V s'11 mounts and then liavo the cm- !, 1 g .. . ttloycr Iobc his services because the - . i f boy brnko tbronslt the barrlor on a . (I? " I"5t'rKc In which he had no concern at si$ "' ' Bradley cites hlfi boy Ganz. who Nil! if " r0'J" ,J','V ft'w days In more than 11 hri V ' ' a niouth. Bradley was nnylnq- Ganz il'-l-Ff' s-",r' K-inonth for hJa services, ami. r 1 -ajf-.'V alllioiiKh contracts on joekcys usual- E'.'i-Imt " ' state that the pay Is suspended L" ' t .wb"ii tlio boy Is set down, but few MliSfi; -'horsemen observe this, as the boy wvnt, jK usually suspended becauso he Is '.jm ' trying to win. . HK'' " : ST A RTKl I may have the fairest 'l - " m'JtJvcs ' world and still ! 'OTk '" n; exceedingly harsh on n, riftfflgc V Jockey who, maybo. hiia caused him iiilflS'. ., to bo cn.xlllcd Willi a bad start just 'il'5 - " because that boy was alert at . the 'Jfy '. "" posrand on his Job. Iif th heat of i-l'J$ft'' ,. passion be may suspend this j3oy. al- !C'rv"""' though ass stated above, ho may try ' ""JS&' ";o 0f-' 3H rc'r :lS I'usslble. Dave XIcol "'mP ' 's "ntgd Tor his alertness at the post. i'Jf.fV ' bclitK nblo to yet away on most any 'H'-Vfe x old horse where other boys would .i;oL r'if ,,ft- NIcolw:i8 able to do this bu- tf) oauee he was (pilck to discern some-. t if'hfl-j thills' which the other boys failed to 'jIRr see. .lake Ilollman was dolns the start- i. jftM j hi In the Kentucky at tlio time 5; that NIeol was at bis best. Iloltman. :ir)!'h. in order that thn boys could not see ;. when' lu Intended to spring- tho bar- l! '' rter Pul arms back of him and KttjfM pulled the ftrlna while they wore In that petition. . II didn't take Xiool "Ions' to Und out lhat when lloltnian lntcndel to sprlne; tho barrier he let his body unconsciously swerve lo one side. This was only a fraction of a second before bn pulled tho strlns, but Xlcok watching him all the time, noticed this, und when Juke's, 'huso frame started to move, the Jockoy's spur dtifr Into his mount and as a . result he pot at least a two-length advantage orr nearly" every horse he redc. HOlVr.MAX never knew this, and - "probably doesn't know. It.' to this . day, but It made ?sicbi fnmous as"a Jockey. Probably not. a half dozen people In the world know this,-aa this,-aa NlVioI told, but few persons, for It was his chief stock Jn trade. In 1 mi el) the same manner Ganz has an advantage 011 the prosent starter start-er that few boys know about. Caa-sldy Caa-sldy has a habit of twitching hla faeo Just before he springs the barrier much the same as Iloltman lets I1J3-body I1J3-body swerve. Tt, didn't lake Ganr. long to jiotioe this characteristic, and when tho starter's face twitched, ho did just what NIcol did, and as a result re-sult was usually beating the barrier. As a result Ganz was set down most of tho time. Now Bradley Intends to ask the racing-commission to take over this position and make some now rules concerning It, |
