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AUSTRALIAN JOCKEY COMES TO AMERICA. Richard Sampson Brings Over a Consignment of" Horses from Belgium and Franco. New York, October 23. Richard Sampson, a trainer and jockey from Australia, has arrived here in charge of a shipment of fifty thoroughbreds from Belgium and France, and which will be sent to J. Halbert, a breeder of horses in Iowa. Sauipson, however, will remain here and will try to secure a license from The Jockey Club. He has ridden and trained horses in Australia, South Africa, Belgium, Germany and France and is anxious to try his fortune in Amarlca. Sampson is rather an interesting young fellow. He was in charge of a string of jumpers at Johannesburg during the Boer war and had his horses "coruma,ndeered" by the British army, which means that they were .confiscated for officers mounts. "Myself and my brother and several of the other boys who were racing there had. to join the army," he said, "or get out of the country, and while Im no hand for soldiering, I didnt have enough money to get out of the country, so I went to the front. No more war for mine I prefer the peaceful business of racing. I escaped being shot, but two or three of my friends were, and one of them was hurt so that he wilt never ride again." Sampson was apprenticed to Septimus Miller,, president of the Flemington racecourse at Melbourne and probably the most influential man in racing in Australia. Sampson was third whip of Mr. Millers hounds and rode in steeplechases for him. He can ride at 110 pounds and says he rides flat races as. well as cross-country contests. He says that racing in Belgium is on the wane, as the public there do not take kindly to the change from bookmaking to the Paris mutuel system. Sampson spent some time In France before he sailed for America, and says that Tommy Burns has had a run of very bad luck; there.
