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COCHKAXS CASE The New Orleans Picayune of January 9 has this to say about the setting down of Jockey Cochran CochranBy By order of the stewards Jockey Cochran who is perhaps entitled to rate as one of the most popu ¬ lar riders in the country stands suspended for one week This edict came yesterday after an amaz ¬ ingly bad ride in the second race on the filly Ami gari It is a decision that everyone will admit was deserved and the reason given for it indifferent and apparent inconsistent work is in plain words letting him down easy Ever since he came here he has been furnishing rapidfire changes of form that would not have been tolerated from any other boy Pew take a dishonest view of his riding the gen ¬ eral opinion being that he has been abused that is to fay that he has been forced to keep on riding when nature and humanity almost demanded that he be given a rest restHe He has been hard at work for about fifteen months doing heroic work day after daj that is riding more frequently than the heavyweights who have had years of experience to develop in His very features show the strain to which he has been plfc He lids not epnrplaiiiedibut has s ono Qn striv ing to do what nature rebelled against Many have wondered that the powers have not stepped in and demanded that he be given a rest Short as the vacation is now to be enforced it is certain to do him good Were it for a month or the entire meet ¬ ing the greater would be the charity conferred conferredIt It has since last fall been understood that this i boy was to ride for W C Whitney next season Now comes the statement from his father to the i effect that the contract was either never signed or canceled after it was the reasons given for this are that he the father would not agree to some of the terms included in the papers Among those to which parental objection was made were a clause that required the boy to be at the stable to gallop the horses another that he go to England if Mr Whitney so desired and a third that when Trainer Rodgers was ready to break the yearlings he would do his part in the general schooling Had the boy fulfilled all these requirements he would be better off than he is just now It is true he has earned con ¬ siderable money here but with the financial gains has come a loss of prestige that it will be difficult i to regain Ild the boy been turned over to J M Rodgers Mr Whitneys trainer it would have been i a guarantee of a bright career Mr Whitney in i his turf dealings has proved himself a prince of menJf Mr Rodgers as a trainer has for years and i does still class as one of the best of his craft Under the sponsorship of these two gentlemen the j boy would have had every chance to work into the position of the best lightweight in recent years As it is retrogression lias set in and he has lost favor fast Today he stands with the unenviable mark of being suspended for inconsistent and in ¬ different work
