Show JOCKEYS OWNERS I IARE ARE BAD GUESSERS I John Bet on 28 Races and Never Cashed a Ticket By Special News Service NEW EW YORK Jan 12 A A group of at racing folks were swapping stories in the Waldorf recently when one of them intimated intimated inti inti- mated that owners and Jockeys knew less Jess about the merits merits' of oC horses than the ther r regulars who rely on past performances and horse racing sense to pick winners One or two owners took too exception to the remark re but there was one who took th the affirmative That was John Jolin Shaugh Shaugh- nessy who Is Interested in one of or the assumed name nune styles Last year I J wagered 1 on twenty-eight twenty horses out of or orthe the barn I am sen associated with and never cashed a ticket When we did turn out outa a a. winner I was never aboard That hardly hardly hardy hard hard- ly y seems possible but its it's a fact Only a a. few days ago two horses in which I have an interest won at New Orleans on th the tha same day I never had a nickel on either one HANDLERS IGNORANT It Is Is evident the handlers who wl have them in charge couldn't have thought much of ot their chances or they would have wired nit ml As for jockeys knowing anything I have tried to get information from that end of the sport Whenever they guess right it is usually a 1 to 3 chance Regarding owners and arid trainers being able abie to draw a correct solution of Irace a I arace arace race James Io Fitzsimmons once remarked If we knew new for sure ure when our horses borses were going to win I would want to be in th the business only a year After that Id I'd have enough money to load up a a. boat If U a a. horse runs a a. bad race either the trainer or jockey Is blamed when In nine cases eases out of ot ten it is the horse or through some accident during the running run run- nin ning of ot the race a GET T WRONG NG IDEA If the tIte same sanle horse wins at a long price a n few fow days later everybody has an idea that either owner trainer or jockey has profited when in reality it Is only one of the freaks of horse r racing l If It the racing public would stop to consider that horses machinery ohrne are i. i rW not this pieces condition j of would well regulated not la ex cx- cx I 1st A good horse is about as us consistent stent as a 8 human being if not more so owing I to his regularity of meals and exercise When a th horse s is f feeling e good o he g ge generally e a fn gi shows It in the morning or in his i preliminary pre pre- gallop and it is a sure sura thing he will do his best when he displays such feeling Man Many a a. time a horS honsa has hall had a 11 bad night either from nervousness or orthe orthe orttie the the- noise of a kicking or stall walking neighbor He lIe cannot tell his trainer his troubles and d rarely will he s show o outward outward out out- I ward signs Having Nig worked r l well his his his' I trainers or owners naturally believe In In I his ability to win Horse racing is an nn i uncertain sport so far tar as predicting ju just t I what hat la ti going to happen in a n race is concerned concerned con oon- M so many l things I crop up that I have i a b bearing on the result fJ t II I I |