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NICOL BEST BOY ON TWO-YEAR-OLDS. New ni,:iii-. La.. March 12. Jockey NlcoPa per eentage of winning moaata In the tavenlle races here this winter baa been such as to strengthen the position long ago accorded to him as the best rider of lui ..ear olds in the weal and one of tiie very lx-st in the country. Ir January 21 to tebruary 8 Nieol waa away, and for thia period of fourteen racing days he did not ride. He had no mounts in nine of the umahBtac races. Altogether up lo mil including Saturday, lifty-two races have heea de-decide.l here tliis winter for the juvenile brigade. Nicol was absent from the saddle in twenty-three of them, rode in twenn nine, and won twelve. This is a most remarkable showing, and it will add to Nicois reputation when he gi es easl. which he will do early in the summer season. Nicol has been more 1 halt usually IBtMBafal as a rider of t w o ea r obis at the present City Park aaeettag, due partly to the fad that he baa m t bad to meet the competition of oilier conipclent jockeys. Mart in is under suspension, While .Moil lit a in am! A us tin are al Hot Springs. He has thus had a distinct advantage over the Inexperienced many of them Incompetent— lada he has heea pitted against, in three and three and half furlong dashes, the start is half the battle, as two year olds can run BS fast, if not faster at three fnrlonus as at any oilier age, am! two or three lengths gained in the ■rat furlong means a let. Nicol boMa ids mounts together a: the post, liplocs them away from the harrier and as a rule has the raee won in the aval quarter, while light weight apprentice boya, not edacated to harrier tactics, ami few of them arc. generally get away with a slack rein, or when no| in position and lose all Wtentag chances at the stari. If nis present form as a rider of yoaagatera : continues, it would look as thoagb Nicol would 1« in deaaaad in the juvenile eveata in the east aexl summer. In I he twoyearol.l races here J. Lee has ; ridden m winners. J. ilennesy four. J. Martin. Seder and G. Swain three each, and W. Mclntxre. Walker. Troxler. Lowe. L. Smith. D. Austin and Garner iwo each.
