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AMERICAN JOCKEYS TO BETDEN. At laet there appear signs of a reaction in the oraze of American jookeyB to go abroad to ride, At least one has reconsidered the matter and will remain here, notwithstanding good offers from the other side, and etill another has cancelled his engagements and will remain here to ride for a prominent aud important stable. Several others have been over and, failing to do as well as they expected, have, under one excuse or another, returned, and soveral more still remaining are acknowledged to be far from prosperous. This is cause for congratulation from whatever point of view it is looked at. The beBt place for an American boy is right here, and the present season has demonstrated that it was not lack of opportunity which was crowding down what many believed to be a host of unrecognized talent. This year many boys have been called from the winter tracks, and those of the west, but with very few exceptions almost to be counted on the fingers of one hand theBe have neither lived up to their previous records nor performed up to the standard of the metropolitan tracks, in other words they have neither equaled nor approached the performances of even our third rate boys. In the case of the few exceptions their talent was immediately recognized and rewarded. This has been no new experience; it is what has proved the case almost every year. Kings of Tin elsewhere to be lost in the stretch in the east. Never was there Buch an opportunity for good boys aB in this country for the remainder of this season, and the seasons to come. The supply to hand has been tried and except in a few instances has been found decidedly wanting. Borne of the leading boys of last year have ap parently lost all their old skill, demonstrating apparently that to the trainers care and judgment, much of the personal reputation of these individual jockeyB has been due. The percentage of success achieved by American jockeyB in England, is not so great as it was a year or two ago, possibly the English boys have learned something, and perhaps improved on it, and if it gives rise to a desire on the part of Native Born to head homewards it will not be a subject for regret. Sterling good boys, with good hands, a staple seat, a clear head not given to undue enlargementwho will ride to orders. and have a little judgment of their own when needed, were never more in demand than at present, and it only needs one or two more to turn the scale and bring most of the errant chickens home to roost. Spirit of The Times.
