Show SLOANS BAD CONDUCT COMMENTS BROUGHT OUT BY HIS CHRISTMAS DAY MOUNT new york dec 27 bany new york turkmen last night discussed the case of tod sloan it being brought into prominence again by his riding at the tan poran track california on christmas day the fact that sloans license Is not revoked Is generally accepted as the real reason why the tan foran authorities permitted him to ride and there Is DO doubt that bad sloan accepted a mount on an american or english jockey club course he would have been allowed to fulfill his engagement but tho advisability of so doing Is questioned As a prominent said what Is sloan to gain by it the money he would receive tor riding in a tow races between now and the first of next year would be BO small that it would not enter into the argument on the other hand the tact that he is riding is as much as saying to the english jockey club 1 I can do as I 1 please this year youre edict does not go into effect until next eoa son the earl of who is a well know and breeder of thor and now in this city was asked what he thought about ohp sloan case he said 1 I think sloan would have been much wiser to have kept in the back ground at any rate for the present and if he behaves himself in a quiet and unostentatious manner tor a year there Is no doubt he will ba granted a license again he brought this thing on himself by his manner of living and his barefaced bare faced effrontery affron tery it was common talk that sloan was betting and it bis application for a new license had not been refused something worse would have happened to him I 1 think he was let off very lightly and I 1 do not think anything more Is meant than a warning sloan must learn his place as a jockey if he wants to ride in england again and I 1 am surprised that he has been tolerated as long as he has foxhall keene thinks that under the circumstances sloan did no harm by riding at tan foran As his license Is not revoked he considers he Is in good standing until he applies tor a now license and Is refused col thos expressed surprise that the tan foran authorities should have permitted sloan to ride but at the same time he did not think that their permission would have any effect on the case when it came before the jockey club |