. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. January 11, 1902] ®h# *Bxcehev atxb gkpoxi&mcin Jockey Taral on the Weight Question. The subject of raising- the weig-hts in all races has jeen dilated upon to some extent, showing the benefits chat would surely arise if secretaries would only make it a rule to live closer to the regulation scale than they have done in tbe past. In a conversation held by Ed Cole with Fred Taral on the matter, tbe jockey claims, and justly too, that many races are not truly run through interferences caused by bits of pin beaded boys who know enough only to sit on horses and
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. January 11, 1902] ®h# *Bxcehev atxb gkpoxi&mcin Jockey Taral on the Weight Question. The subject of raising- the weig-hts in all races has jeen dilated upon to some extent, showing the benefits chat would surely arise if secretaries would only make it a rule to live closer to the regulation scale than they have done in tbe past. In a conversation held by Ed Cole with Fred Taral on the matter, tbe jockey claims, and justly too, that many races are not truly run through interferences caused by bits of pin beaded boys who know enough only to sit on horses and notbing about the art of race riding. He is very decided in his opinion that if the example set by Austria and California were followed here, where the jockeys are thorough horsemen, with few exceptions, there would be less accidents and that horses would run truer and more satisfactory to the public eye and pleasing to the officials. In illustrating his argument, Taral says: "Take any race at a mile or a mile and a sixteenth on a circular track and watch the jumble and mixing up that takes place at the first turn. There is so much crowding and jostling that I have seen horses literally carried off their feet and held in the air for thirty or forty yards. "The little bits of boys know nothing but racing to the front and in doing so let go of the heads of their mounts and they naturally work toward the rail. The result is crowding that is not only dangerous to horses and riders, but causes horses to be frozen out of posi- tion which cannot be recovered, hence inconsistency in running horses which is looked upon with suspicion by the officials and public. "No good rider will make a bid for a position on the first turn in a big field unless he gets away in the first three, especially if he has a rail position at the post, for he is sure to be shut off by some inexperienced rider, and it is much better to wait for clear railing than be compelled to pull up a horse o
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