1940-12-13 — Page 59

THE CHINA MAIL FRIDAY SUPPLEMENT, DECEMBER 13, 1940. ·

Jockeys

And

Page

Mounts

How They Lost And Won

TWO unknown riders made his ridden by a jockey named Mar- stead of attending to one's own the owner of his mount, gratified came to believe that business, has lost more than one but, curious, asked him how he tory at Kempton Park recent- low, who

was invincible. race. A boy called Rossiter was manged it. "Well, sir," replied ly. One of them, named Dawson, "the Dutchman"

Doncaster Cup, Marlow on Robert the Devil in the Der- the innocent lad, "I overheard Mr. signalised his first race in England In the

to was instructed to ride a waiting by, when the dreaded Fred Archier Archer saying what he intended

Bend Or.

Rossiter to do to me during the race, so I by steering a 20-to-1 chance

thought the best thing was to victory. The other unknown, by race; but he vaingloriously decid- was riding -the name of Eddowes, won by ed to disobey his riding-orders,

ail the way.". four lengths on another outsider, saying "I'll show them what I've making mincemeat of the day's got under me to-day!" "good thing," which, was ridden by no less a celebrity than Gordon Richards.

Owing to this temerity, Voltigeur

as

By Don Cathcart Jump on in front and keep in front

We have already seen how it is not always the crack jockeys who have the big wins. To the names of Macdonald and Bell, just quot- ed as unknown boys who rode un expected Derby winners, let us add that of Parsons,

This unknown lad was put up on Caractacus for the great race at Epsom. Now, Caráctacus was did not trouble to go to Epsom, so little thought of that his owner

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Lord Rosebery's Derby winner got up and just beat the Flying kept on looking round to see what Ladus lost the St. Leger because It is just these little incidents Dutchman-one of the most sen- Archer was doing, and in the end Loates, in the saddle, was busy to see him run. As it turned out.

his head. This gave only opponent he feared. While that go to make up that "glorious sational "upsets" even seen on n'-though he was leading all the watching Watts on Matchbox, the Parsons, young and untried as he uncertainty of the Turf about racecourse. Marlow's remorse for way-lost

his disobedience was bitter, and Archer the chance to come up on these two crack jockeys had their was, rode the despised outsider which we hear so much.

after the race he was seen Jean Bend Or, and win, though the race eyes upon each other, a gallant with the coolness and judgment of A totally unknown young jockey ing against the wall of the weight really ought to have gone to Roy, named Throstle, cleverly a hero of a hundred wins, and

child, bert the Devil,

steered by Cannon, stole the race, brought him first past the post In

a superb finish. won the Derby on the 50-to-1 ing-room crying like

This habit of Archer's of fright- This was another big race-course outsider Little Wonder, beating while Lord Eglinton, pale the favourite Lancelot, with the ashes, was vainly trying to console ening his inexperienced opponents surprise, for Ladas was fully ex- great William Scott "up."The lad's him. Marlow won other races but had an unlooked for repercussion pected to win. As it was, he had on one occasion. An unknown lad to be content with second place, name deserves to be recorded. It died, forgotten, in a workhouse. was Macdonald; and the records. Watching the other jockey, in- had a totally unexpected win; and while Matchbox was third. say that he was as veteran all the way. Nearing the post, Scott, who was by no means scrupulous, shouted, "£1,000 for a pull!" The unknown youngster shouted back, "Too late, Mr. Scott!" and went on to win a sen- sational Derby.

cool as 11

Another obscure jockey carried off the "Blue Ribbon" on Merry Monarch, whose previous per- formances caused him to go down in racing history as "the worst horse that ever won the Derby." This juckey's name was Bell.

These unknown lads were doubtless going all out; whereas it is not seldom that a more experi- enced jock has thrown away a. race because of over-confidence. Catherstone won the Derby, with the aforementioned Scott in the saddle, by a good margin. In the St. Leger the mount was given to Frank Butler, but this jockey took too much for granted. To his dis- Nutwith Job Marson on may, came with an electric rush, and snatched the victory away from Catherstone and him. Marson was a very fine rider, and was

when he won

Teddington

Derby.

on the

It is pleasing to record that his last mount, ere he re tired, was a winner.

Beat Fred Archer

Another tragie tale of over- confidence losing a big race has to be told in connection with that grand horse Flying Dutchman.

In all his victories he had been

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A French sailor giving an interpretation of English and French words, during instruction of French Naval men of the Free French forces in the English language by a schoolteacher in Eng- land. (Copyright, Fox).

We hear a good deal about tem- peramental horses, and their fits of "nerves" and temper. But a jockey can have his little oddities just the same. There was Sammy Mor- dan, who would soliloquise aloud as he rode. Over-confidence, curse of so many jocks, also made him; throw away a Derby which his mount Bruce was expected to win. Thinking that he had the race, in: his pocket, he left off riding, and Tom Cannon took Shotover past him to win.

was:

There

was Morris, who deaf, a disability which is no as- set to a jockey. He, too, cased up his mount, Galopin, in a memor- able Derby. "Coon, Deafy!") shouted George Fordham.

"Deafy" went on to win.

And

Tod:

There was the Yankee Sloan, whose succession of wins' went to his head, and made him impossible to deal with.

George Fordham, just mention- ed, was known as the "champion: kidder" among. jockeys, and was up to every legitimate move to uc- ceive his rivals and add to his mount's chances. During his career he rede 2587 winners, thus not being far behind the great Fred Archer's record of 2748.

one

William Scott had a tempera- ment that made him quarrel with everybody. In

Derby he. the starting- actually stayed at post to abuse the starter. So mar- vellous a rider was he that in. spite of this delay he made up only the lost ground and was beaten by a short head. His little episode at the start, by the way, cost him an interview with the Stewards and a £5 fine.

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