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THE TARALS ARE TO SAIL SATURDAY. Father and Son to Aqain Ride in Austria — Shaw. Maher and Lyne Book Passage. New York. February 12. — It is difficult to believe that Fred Kara] has been twenty-five years a jockey. Vet such is a fact. He is now a little more than forty years old. yet looks about the same as lie did fifteen years ago. with his well set. square siioullers. bis dear eve and his quick, energetic Strides, a typical American jockey. With his son John he will depart far Austria Saturday next where both are to ride for Baron Springer. In one race last year the boy beat the father by a head. Tatals last races in Auiorba were in 1000. Then he went abroad, where, in Austria and Hungary, be has led tiie winning jockeys for four of the six years thai he has been there. In one of the other two yean Harry Lewis, also an American, beat TaraL Fred will have a mount at Lincoln in the Pith-yany Handicap, which is among tin- first races run on the Baglisb turf. lion Marche. "the Austrian Rosebea," aecordlag to all sccoaate, is well in at Lincoln si 11.* pounds. In one race in his own rooatry Boa Man he carried 14. pounds and won at six fartoags. "1 really beUere 1 bare ridden more races than any man alive." said Taral today, as he played billiards in Maurice Italys rooms. "Years ago reports of the races were published without jockeys nanus. My employers, the I.abohl Brothers, wrote to the tarf papers at that time and said that their |o key, Taral. was one of she best in the west, but the reports failed to credit him with many suc-•esses. •"The difference between the edd i-oimtrics and this is that when a Jockey riding there earns 0 he keeps .*0 and spends .* continued Taral. "whereas in America there are so many temptations the jo.key who has money coining to him at the end of tiie season is lucky. There is one good plan in Austria. The jockeys fees are left in the hands of the Jockey Club until the end of the season, and in at least one ease a jockeys money was saved for htm for six BtOBtba " Taral thinks Miller a good rider in short races. but does not think he would hold his own agathast oar beat riders in long races. He saw some racing in November. Little Johnny Taral noticed haw wide the Jockey* let their horses run out on the turn. The little fellow said: "I wish they would do that in Austria: I would have a cinch in coming thlOBgll ui the rail." "In the days of Garrison, ntapatrick, Hayward. M Laaghlm, SpeDmaa, Murphy. Bhtylock and others of that class." said Taral. "you could not get throagh on the rail on the stretch turn. They formed a solid wall in front of you and you had to beat them from the head of the homestretch if you were to win at all." Tarsis IhsI cheat as a boy was Charles Curtis, a fellow Jockey, who is now Tatted States Senator from Kansas. Mr. Curl is as n jockey rode old Tax-gatberer, a well kaowa selling plater of the eighties. which was trained by "Snip" Donovan, the man who later on trained Tenny for Have Pulsiler. Taral agrees with Hanny .Maher that the ■Bglish horses are better than American as a class. They ate shipped lroni place to place so often in a months racing that they must lie naturally hardy hois,.,, Taral argued. Shaw will sail for Germany February 21. to do the riding for Weinberg Brothers. He will take along a lightweight boj named Korb. Maher and Lyne sail lor England it is understood sometime before March 1. Harry Spencer will leave for Fraiiie, "Mickey" Miles |or Austria, and Itirkenriith for tin- same country. "Bkeeta" Martin also will ride in Austria this year. In a letter to James ille pigoe, Tommy Baras, who is now in France, confirms tiie report that he will ride ill Germany. Hoar and Wiitktield will ride in Kiissia. Taral was the most popular jockey on the American turf lor many years, and he is no less so in Austria. For .an alleged off f net last year he was about to tie fined by the Austrian stewards, but the public so strongly condemned the officials that the line was not imposed. In this country Taral won the Pnioklyii Handicap three years — on Diablo in 1893, on Dr. Rice in 1994 ami on Sir Waller in IS!*;. He won the Brooklyn, Metropolitan and Suburban Handicaps in one year. 1894, something B0 other Jockey has yet done. He red* Domino in all h great races, winning the l-ulu-ily in 1888 with him. niaki.ig a dead heat with Dobbins in the match which followed the Futurity, and in the following year making a dead heat on Domino in his match with Henry of Navarre tit Gravesend. after having won the match between Doniiuo and Clifford at Sbeepshead Hay.
