Show Britons Follow Custom Of Picking Out Goat Special to The Telegram Apparently our English cousins have taken up the old American cus custom tom torn of picking a goat as well as a hero for their big sporting events j CUS-j While the turf enthusiast who saw the amateur rider Fran Furlong boot his fathers father's horse Reyn Reynoldstown home at 28 1 to score smashing victory in the Grand National National Na steeplechase at Aintree won were generous enough with their praise for foi forthe forthe the winning combination they did die not hesitate to bitterly condemn Jockey Gerry Wilson for Golden Millers Miller's failure Thousands who had placed their money on the favorite av were not convinced convinced con con- vinced that the horse was given an honest ride Few men in the history of or sport have nave occupied a more unenviable position than did little Wilson the afternoon he mounted the fabulous Golden olden Miller and galloped away inthe in inthe inthe the Grand National Cruel Fate Fewer still have suffered a more cruel fate than when at a simple little hedge jump on the first circuit Wilson w went nt tumbling from the back of or the hottest favorite in the almost years' years history of the thc event even t. t Surely there was never a more expensive fall Some U say It saved the bookmakers of England 10 in straight bets and doubles doubles doubles dou bles At any rate it was tremendous responsibility for one little jockey to carr carry The physical and mental strain of guiding a highly strung thin-legged thin horse over more than four miles of treacherous hedges and water seems enough without piling on financial responsibility Wilson knew before he started how much he had to lose and how little littleto to gain If th th Miller won again it would be e another triumph for the wonder horse with his rider sharing only in In- I If the Miller failed Wilson Wilson Wilson Wil Wil- son would be the goat Twenty-one Twenty of the 27 jockeys who started ended upon the turf or in a abath abath bath ath of mud and water The moving pictures show that the Miller didn't actually fall that his Jockey slid off after alter the horse had made an apparently routine land land- ing ng Standing Broad Jump What the pictures do not show according according ac according ac- ac cording to Wi Wilson on is that the Miller came to an almost complete halt before before be- be fore ore taking off then made a sort of standing landing broad jump Anyone who has has- been on the hurricane hurricane hur hur- deck Q of a horse that goes in for that hat method of jumping knows what it t can do 10 to the spinal column Approximately the same thing happened hap to Americas America's greatest steeplechaser steeplechaser steeple steeple- chaser Pete Bostwick who was among the leaders on his Castle Ir Ir- well Nobody has questioned the the sin sin sincerity of Bostwick's purpose Furthermore writes Gayle Talbot Tal Tal- bot hot from London nobody who saw law the crestfallen little jockey Wilson come limping In past the tha paddock after the race would believe him capable of doing business with the tha bookies or anybody else There were tears tears' In his eyes and he could scarcely talk about it S Mostly he wanted to know if it f the Miller filler which had torn wildly about the he infield until captured by a stable- stable hand was all right |