Show Only Ony Few Negro Riders on Tracks Noted for Performances One of ot tho the boy commented on tho the complete disappearance 01 ot of negro Jockeys from the turf There arent aren't more th than n four or five o nl aU told riding In the country today al aU ordin ordinary ry whereas there thero was a a. a time Ume when they either cither t topped the thc profession pro pro- or were right up there One of them an Isaac Murphy of ot al all names won the Derby three times a 11 record until San Sando Sande do equaled It Max Hirsch who gave his Bol fbi Venture Ventura a final Derby pr prep p this morning recalled when such negroes negroes ne no- groes as Sims Perkins Clayton and Hamilton rode In nd won some of at the tho big races of at the year Mr Hirsch was wan riding himself in those days He says sas the negro jockeys were wera natural horsemen that horses ran well for them anc and that they were courageous enough He Ho says lays ho cant can't explain what happened hap hap- to them thom Back In 1901 1907 a 8 negro Jockey by the name of at L Lee e won every race on tho the card here at Churchill Churchil Downs a 11 feat teat no other rider had accomplished up to that time On another occasion ono one Monk Over Over- Overton ton another negro won six Ix out of seven at a a. Chicago track And old New Yorkers may recall the tho time 1 the tho aforementioned Sims took five tho out of six at Bay and duplicated the performance a year later at Jerome park These details details de- de tails Alls furnish ample amplo evidence that they could ride rido with the best A As a a matter of at fact it is an open onen question if It this same Sims Sima didn't originate tho the high up crouch modera modern modern mod mod- ern era jockeys use the use the monkey seat as it is Ja called The old time timo jockey used to sit It upright as u if It going for tor fora tora a canter In the park The rigidity of the position was wu a handicap to the horse horae Sims rode hunched up I close to the tho horses horse's neck blending his ils weight with the animals animal's move move- men meats ments I Some of at the boys boy Insisted Too Ted TedI Sloan was the first to use the monkey mon muon- I key seat eat but as u I have said Id it Jt Jaan is Ja isan I an open question Mr Hirsch saya sayi I It t. t was neither Sims nor Sloan but buta I I a white Jockey named Henry Grifin Grit Grit- I fIn in an orphan boy who came out m of or tho the New York Catholic pr Ce 1 tory He wn was a natural hors hori horsman man too says II Mr HI Hirsch rich Si as Sith th Lii chest ebest jockey I ever er I saw W past putni pr present sent 1 7 |