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SUGGESTIONS AS-TO BAD ACTORS. One thing is being daily demonstrated, this lieing the steady increase in the number of bad acting horses. Whether this is due to the modern method of tense muscle training to run in front, or to the flat-foot slart as many long experienced trainers hold, or to the utter Incapacity of our modern so-called "jockeys," the fact remains beyond question. Having acquired this beautiful specimen of the modern horse why should the start be cursed with him and Ills antics? Why should Colin for instance stand there to have his ribs staved in, or his hocks chopped off, just because the ill-mannered brute is beyond control? Why not at once place the offender to the rear, or to the extreme outside edge of tiie starting line, and let the owner and trainer fully understand this is what they must expect. The Jockey Club and the various associations do not "recognize betting," and if there is any other reason than recognition of betting to excuse such brutes being retained in line at the post, I have yet to hear it. Taken at its best it is victimizing the rest of the field for the benefit of one and that one the scamp, the evil doer. Of course wo all know that 1:5 the way matters work out in real life, that the scamps get the best of everything while they last, and, if they are not fools and grab too much, they last forever; the greatest scamps are those within the law. The racing world, however. Is a world to itseif, and there is no reason on earth why the equine scamps should "get away with it," even if one has to witness the depressing spectacle of bipedal scamps not only "getting away with it," but actually being encouraged to continue in their well doing. At least this is what It amounts to in tiie abstract. What is not curbed by law is allowed by law. This is not generally remembered by those who would rather forget it. Sports of the Times.
