1958-08-30 — Page 17

Boussac and 1 We seldom saw it the

same way

Rao Johnstone, whose` frank story spices with inside details the groat racing dramas in which he was the central, turbulent figure, today tells of the background behind two dry official announcements "The Stewards of the Jockey

"Contract inquired....." and

Club

terminated by mutual consent."

THE CHINA MAIL,” SATURDAY, AUGUST 30, 1958.

Unsolved Mystery Of "White" Indians

DID the last descendants of a mediaeval Welsh colony, established in America long before the advent of Christopher Columbus, go down to final extinction in a tragedy that overwhelmed the mysterious people known as the Mandans only a hundred and twenty years ago?

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Some historians seem to have by this unique people of the thought so; and it was the con- Western wlids. The canoes" aldered bellef of George Catlin, were quite different from those They were noted American traveller, who of all other tribes. Journeyed all over the Far West made of rawhides, the skins of in the 1930's and mude an inten- buffaloes, stretched around sive study of many of the Red frame made of willow or other Indian tribes living beyond the boughs but they were almost frontiers of civilisation in those round in shape, like a tub. days.

By

The

A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT

were finally to dio at the hands of the encircling Sloux, o tribe which had made many attempts 1 to destroy them through the years but which had always been held at bay by the stout defences and strong hearts of this strange community of obscure ancestry.

When their story resched its

They were exactly like the comeles associated from anelent times with Wales,

George Catlin stayed among the Mandans long enough to ec-

The Mandans did not live in tragle firele a hundred and quire a great deal of knowledge buffalo-skin tepees or tents, but twenty years ago, all chance of concerning them, and to ac- in cortical-shaped log-and-carth further investigation into their cumulate number of cluce houses, laid out in a manner which in his opinion supported a that indicated a certain degree

。

Epsom, April 1950–M. Boussacremarcable theory Briting these of town-planning. Their Binges

by RAE JOHNSTONE leads in Galcador (Johnstone

IT'S

DESPITE the fact that in this year when Galeador, following Asmena's Oaks triumph, ended a 19-year quest for English Darby auccess by the Emperor of the French Turt.

In April of that year it was touch and go whether I rode any of those Boussac winners-or

any others.

head,

Racing

Calendar:

"The stewards Inquired into the riding of W. R. Johnstone on Roe du Diable. Having heard stewards' secretaries, and ocrtain Jockeys riding in the race, they suspended Johnstone for the reat of the meeting and reported him to the stewards of the Jockey Club,"

'Sit and suffer the evidence of the judge, the

minutes

of

with an expedition that were protected by earthworks had embarked from Wales more than five hundred years

and stockades. Their womenfolk pre- were stiled in the potter's art, viously. up) after his great Derby win.

311 Unusual accomplishment It has been said that In the among the 'savages' of the For at an Epsom August carly part of the 14th century West. The men lived by hunt- T'S no good pretending that as an owner-and- showed that he had by a short ground

ameri [rast.

a certain Prince Madoc, or ing, fishing, ond by ogriculture jockey combination M. Boussac and I hit it off.

A few minutes after weighing-

"Again I was asked what had Madowe, fett Wales in command (again, cultivation of the soll of a fleet of ten ships and set was against the traditions of We didn't. Despite meeting up in the winner's in, a atendiary came up and I got to say.

ald "The stewards want to And this me the words came out across the western occan, the normal rua of Redskins), circle with such regularity during a nearly three-be you, Johnstone,"

pouring out too quickly, tripping never 10 return to his native and they were not disposed to And it was not lo commiserale over each other, in a casenteet, or such vessels as survived they were vallont fighters when

Land. The suggestion is, that this make war on others, seasons-long association that in our first year,

though with me over defeat. They "I have been. riding 1950, a fellow jock cracked to me: "If you fell called in

Alantic, attacked. some of the other thir-thirty years or so," I said, the crossing of the jocka who rode in the race and and I have been in trouble Mississippi, on the banks

ultimately Velched up out of bed you'd fall on to a winner!"

In the ....well this is the notice that several times. But never for

intrepid Voyagers Catlin in later investigations appeared in the following day's foul riding. And you can't be which the

founded a settlement,

claimed there come a foul rider overnight."

wore striking According to the theory. this similarities between a variety of "You may withdraw," "sald a velce. We do not wish to set-aroused the Janousy and the and corresponding expressions in settlement prospered so well that Mandan words he had picked up, any witnesses,

which I walled. And after 15 of the enmity of Red Indian tribes in the old Welsh language, the area, and because of cou- be subsequently studied. slowest

lived tinuing I've

altacks the Weis!!

Not long afler George Catlin through, I was called in again colonists were obliged to

move visked them, the Mandams were to hene "We have decided to ogain and again-up-river along annihilated. A mallpox epidemic The scene was Epsom on April

to its junction broke out amongst them, ravag DESPITE the fact that 12, the afternoon of the City and

give you the benefit of the the Mississippi Suburban. The Horse I rode it

Goubt, ele."

with the Ohio. There they were ing them frightfully. If they had the French Derby victory that race-Roe du Dlable,

In the Racing Calendar of at length absorbed by Indians been able to move away from of Scratch a few days later This four-year-old's

Which is the most severe April 27 the findings were who adopted many of their cus- their village, which had become tons, and out of the union there pesi-holes, many might have sur- meant that M. Boussne (for

The Comte de Chambure, action that local stewards can recorded like this:-

The stewards of the Jockey developed a distinctive group of vived in the clean, jirlmed me in the paddock as pursue. I had been referred to

wholesome whom Scratch also won follows: "The unly chance the supreme body, for "foul Club inquired into the report mixed-bloods who came to be air of now surroundings. But, as the English Leger) had you've

made by the stewards of the known as the Mandans, a term got is 10 come the riding."

a crowning misfortune established a record, never shortest way and just chaneṛ? The seriousness of the silua. Epsom Spring Meeting on the which Catlin fancied might be a desperate situation, they were

harmed-in If it on did not dawn on me at first, riding or W. R. Johnstone in corruption of "Madawgwys," the besieged and Jikely to be beaten, in win an opening on the ralts.

does not come off, so much the I had not, in my opinion, ridden severely cautioned Johnstone as in Wales to the

the City and Suburban. They name said to have been applied warriors of a powerful nation ning the race nine times.

worse, but if things go your way n foul race.

followers of which had long resented their And, with on

Prince Medawc... AND DESPITE he topping we may fluke #1, Su sit, suffer, almost unquestioning belief that to his future riding."

presence on the Upper Missouri www.tho On July 19 I rode the trin

Alerco and bloodthirsty the list as owner and breeder in and hopo. **

If you had not done wrong you

Sioux. England and France-we also Running into Tattenham could not be convicted certainly te lly Arbele in Tulyar's Won the Iriytt Oaks will Corner I was on the fence. not in England I tended to King George VI and

Elizabell: Stokes. She did not Corejada—we just did not see There was A wall of horses shrug it off,

M. Boussac con- Whether Callin was eye to eye,

connect in front of me, and unlike riu- I returned to England for the Eet 11⁄2 miles,

or otherwise in this curmise, it ters in a Derby who will be Jockey Club inquiry to be held sidered I had held her up too

long.

"book" indicates appears to have been the case sorted out by merit soon after at Newmarket on April 25,

fortifications discovered reaching

thut "Jack" Doyusbere rode that tiu straight these I arrived with Д letter

by the weren't fast enough to get out addressed

French her next tino out when she won along the Ohio and Mississipp! We just looked each other in of their own way.

Ilivers by white men in after- stewards in my favour, and over a mile. the eye across the round cou- Hemmed in, like a wasp in another signed by

And so on....for by July that years were decidedly at variance practice ference table in his big private sealed Jum Jar

France year we had agreed to differ. with normal Redskin buzzed prominenų I

jockey in

and were plane, in which we all debated momentarily for an opening stating that in 17 years' experl- "Contract terminated by mutual in the oris of war, all problems of a race to come, just off the rails with was once of riding with me, none consent

the traditional more in keeping with the Old when Catlin

(who

Differed

owner,

every

The

were

Queen

or everything that had happened promptly sealed. Then another had ever known me to commit a words employed to announce World

Furthermore, the dissolution. Generally, the

discussed and differed.

feature of the flight home,

I thought Pardat would win

that Derby or that even

A

We just did, the Upper Missouri), he found

"The

In a race that was past, and occurred and we sailed through, deliberater foul.

I say Malied" through. How- At the Jockey Club Rooms, phrase cloaks a period of angry stayed with the Mandans

In this instance they by then were located away to Even after the Derby, a result over, once in between a couple, Doug Smith, Edgar Britt and dissent.

have been more the north-west in the region of which would surely enable me they did come together again Scobic Breasley-all of whom could not to make my point that the and I'm not saying we didn't had ridden in the "City appropriate.

among them many astonishing bores were beling required to give one the brush off.

arrived to give evidence for me, finally, agree to differ,

other features not to be soon Gordon Richards made it known

friend told me: do too much at home-the

tribes. absence of accord Was the

that he was available.

Trouble with you is, you want to On the line

For example, their complex- It looked as though I needed ride the horses and train them, all the help I could got too. And you are only being employed ions were not invariably copper- always Responding to all the help I after a short while in the frigid to perform one of those activi-coloured, nor their hair Geraphur might But they both could give him, Roe du Diablo ekr of the inquisitors" high lies." Could be he was right. black. There were dair-skimed cracked up before the day. hit the front, on the fence, 100 cellinged parlour, I expected a But I'm afraid, if I am wrapped persons among them, and Catlin There was a fortnight left to yards out, only to be touched off hangman's noose to descend up in horses, I am wrapped up also observed among them as prepare a miler-Galcador. on the line. And I mean on the through hatch at any moment, in them. They're mine. I can many different colours of hair as

Didn't the act that he had line, by Iron Duke.

An implacable .array of understand, I suppose, that I group of Europeans could show, Grey eyes and even blue eyes won prove my contention that It was a desperately near stewards Ба round ♫ table may be a problem.

were peculiar to some of the they needed leas severe training? thing and I heard the announes- before whleh I stood, I must

Mandans, too, though the tribe It did not, said M. Doussie, ment photo-finish" as we admit-Trembling.

had not inter-bred with latier. who had it that with a full started to pull up. "What do What had I got to say? It

day white settlers. For genera- preparation he'd have won by you think?" quizzed Iron only my Junees would stop

tions they had been surrounded a couple of lengths Instead of Duke's rider Edgar Britt.

by Red Indians of uzimized a head! And who is to know, "I think you just did me, I could hear myself think, I The Naa Jphnstone Story will blood. will ever know, which was Edgar," I replied,

"but I licked my lips and opened my be published later this year by Another Mandan poculiarly wouldn't be sure," The photo mouth, but it was dry as the Stanley Faul and Co.

was the type of river-bost used

right?

behaving like caslanets so that

NEXT WEEK

It's so tough at the top

in their

by

Those few Mandans who sur- vived the smallpox epidemic

SIDE GLANCES

past vanished with their com→ plete extermination. Historians may speculate, but no one will ever be able to say with certain- ty that among the Mandans who perished on. The Upper Missour! In 1838 were men, women and children carrying the blood of a Welsh prince and his followere in their veins. And, similarly, no one will ever be able to discount the theory with complete fidence, Il seems.

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