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SOUGH RIDING AT THE BEACH. Within a week the promising lightweight riders, McCue and Odom, have been badly hurt at Brighton Beach. It is no wonder that such is the case- in view of what the experienced jockey Fred Taral says of the riding there: "Never in my experience," he said, "have I seen so much rough and foul riding as there is at present. It occurs in every race, and unless it is stooped, torao of these boys will surely be killed. It is all their own fault, at that, for after every race they gibe one another in the jockey room about what they have done. I have heard one boy boast to another that be had cut him off and that he would do it again whenever ho got the opportunity. There is considerable enmity among them and it is the desire to beat one another out, by fair means or foul, that causes so much trouble at the po3t. A jostle in the first rush is not so noticeable as it might be later on in the running, and thero are a lot of them that tako chances. On the turns the crowding is sure to como, and is almost as bad in the stretches. "This is a matter that ou h to bo remedied, and I do not say this as nrnifi for myself as for the others. There is not one of ihosa youngsters that dares to crowd me in a r ce. They know that if they do, I will pull my bat and let them have it in the most convenient spot in the face if neceesary. I am glad to say I never suffer directly, but sometimes it comes to me indi rectly. A horse in front of me will be crowded or crossed, and then he comes back on me. I have to keep my eye peeled for this thing all the time, for I can never tell when I will have to pull up or go around."
