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"SID" HOLLOWAY TO RIDE IN RACES. Noted Show Ring Rider to Join Ranks of the Steeplechase Brigade. New York, August 12. Sidney J. nolloway, of the Westchester Farm Stables, and one of the most noted show ring riders in the country, will give up this rather tame sport and become a steeplechase rider on the eastern and northern tracks. As Mr. IIolloway has won almost every prize worth mentioning at the horse shows, and is an adept in the saddle, his first appearance with the timber toppers will be watched with interest. He is no novice at the sport, however. Several years ago he gave one of the most thrilling exhibitions of horsemanship ever seen on any race course when he rode the horse IS. B. Sack in a Benuing steeplechase with one arm strapped to his side, his collar-broue having been broken shortly before. His weight and build are much in his favor, his touch keen and he is the possessor of much coolness and good judgment. The ranks of successful gentlemen jockeys have been much depleted of late. Some of them, like Harry Stone, have joined the professionals, and Jay OBrien and "Bob" Taylor, the best amateurs now in active service are both laid up from recent accidents. "Billy" Hayes is rarely seen in the saddle now, as his weight is beginning to tell on him, and Ernest Hayes, his brother, has retired to his farm at Warrenton and given up the strenuous sport. The Evans boys have both been laid up from falls, while Dion Kerr lias been seen but seldom in the saddle since the spring meeting at Iimlico, although he is expected to have a number of mounts at the coming meeting of the United Hunts Club. Two Baltimore riders who have been making rapid strides lately are Jarvis Spencer and Charles K. Harrison, Jr., the former has rarely been seen on any other tracks than Benning and Pimlico, but Mr. Harrison has had a number of prominent mounts on the northern tracks this season, where he was credited as being one of the most daring riders to put a horse over the bars.
