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Show M 'TAG G ART RECOVERS NERVE AFTER BATTLE Loses Confidence After Bad Spill, but Never Weakens. Jockey Who Slipped Because of Injuries In-juries Regains Courage and Will Ride Horses for Mrs. Payne Whitney This Year. Some years back Johnny McTaggart started out to be the best jockey on the track. He was one of the leading riders of the country and his services were in great demand. One day In 191S be went clown in a spill and was badly injured. When he got back in the saddle again, he found his nerve had departed. He had acquired a family fam-ily and he did not like the risks. Successful riders, as successes In ail sports, have to have the heart to take ' Jockey Jonnny McTaggart. chances, and Mf-Taggart slipped from the successful class. He was still game In the belief that It would come back to him and he was courageous enough to fight the worst of all battles bat-tles with himself. Leaving the big tracks he went around to the smaller ones and fought and foueht until the old daring came back. lie returned to the big time late In the last season and rode with his former class. Trainers and owners own-ers whispered among themselves: "Johnny's got his nerve back." His comeback was rewarded with a contract to ride this season for the stable of Mrs. Payne Whitney. |