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ESTIMATING THE JOCKEYS O 1906. % Shaws Consistency — Martins Luck — Rad- tkes Incorrigibility — Lynes Mistake. Stake Winning Jockeys in 1000" is the caption of an Interesting review appearing In the current Iss M of Sports of the TTaifS. and from which the Cstlowing paragraphs hate boon taken: "Glancing through She reearda of MSB, and taking only the Stakes worth ,000 sad over as worthy of consideration. Miller stands at tlie head with a total of only Sll.;.!i:,7. whoio. in IMS, stood Nicol Wtth 8131,220, Milhr eleventh OB the list with just over 0,000, and where, in 1004, stood Hilde- hraad with 7Xy645. The 6118,877 of Miller was more widely scattered than the record of any preceding boy at the bead of the list. Witii the exception of the Great Trial, the Brighton Junior, aad the Junior Chaaapioa, he had few of the reel plums, in the twe latter naess his mount was so much the liest. it was a gift. "Shew has for years hsea an exceedingly consistent jockey, excepting only when first he emerged from his retirement. He is one of the very few isolated instain-es where a jockey, suspended by the stewards, lias ever regained his form. Glance hack fhriugh has year for yourself If Interested, there is nothing to be gained by raking up the dead Issues. Shaw is esteemed by most good judges as the most finished horseman riding 00 the American turf in the past two or three years. He has been criticised wholesale, many rides have not been sclntillant, but it is rarely indeed that one finds an old time, ex petieaced trainer seriously finding fault with Shaws Work. The oxivption. of course proves the ruic. "J. Martin was exceedingly lucky in lining Accountant to make his total. Otherwise it would have heea ■ pear one indeed, notwithstanding the fact that when Martin so w ishes, he can ride mate than a little. "Radtke is the query mark of the year. A goad boy under many circumstances. Good hands, a good judge of I finish, and a hard finisher, it is simply miraculous, considering all the trouble he has deliberately looked for— and found -that he stands so Ugh. Where he might have rated had he kept his skirts dear of trouble, is beyond com-putation. Reasoning even by analogy — that most fallacious of all reasoning — by adding to his gross total the ccptivalont of the twenty eight or thirty days he lost, and his total swells to easily second on the list. Had owners had more confidence in Radtke. had they been less afraid of his inexplicable tantrums, there is no knowing where his record might have soared. As it was. Miller had Ida most dangerous opponent tied by the leg asset of the season. Even the stewards were under compunction in handling the little wasp, his replies being frequently so unorthodox, and —expected, these were liable to place the stewards in a curiously unpleasant state of mind, even when most kindly inclined. "I.yne is a finished rider, one of the liest we have, when doing his best. Infortuiiately he has. for years, been the apparent viiim ,.r cheamataacea. This is not said in any unkindness. but he left one prominent stable after finishing half his contract, he left S Bother just when it was appn aching its height of success, and he continued to ride here instead of going to France two years ago. as fie then meditated. Had he gone to France, with the French consistency of weight, the French : eptance of when a boy is doing his beet, the French owners knowledge of that fact, and the eminently sound common sense which governs every detail of French racing even more so than in England these days, I.yne would undoubtedly have done well. Probaldv mneli lietter than he has been able to do here, in his own country. In France there is not the same omnipresent looking for the l est of it. something we Americans fail to understand until we travel and live with them. A bay riding there knows that hi may ride one extremely had ride, possibly two. but he will not get another chance. The average owner, and trainer, is quick to note facts in a case. there Is a rigid "morale underlying the majority, and when a bay is doing his best, most of those interested know it. and do not expect miracles. Further, they have a rather foolish idea — from our apparent standpoint that age and experience increase a jockeys value as a rider, and the weights enable American boys to ride, who have to pass down and out here, simply because of our terrible list of weight off every racing day. I.yne lias probably ridden his last race, he finds it dangerous to reduce to our rigorous limit. "J. Jones, the diminutive, is another whose good wins place him rather high. Carrying goodness only knows how much lead, under 125 pounds, Water iearl won the rich Great American, and under 120 pounds the Tremont. under 117 pounds the BcBpse. while W. II. Daniel had Jones, plus lead to 190 pounds, when he won the Nursery. The widely circulated story that he is to ride for Mr. August Belmont in England this year has not an atom of truth in it. there was never the slightest foundation. Neither dices Mr. Belmont meditate an extensive English -campaign."
