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SOME ANCIENT LEPPER HISTORY. Mention of the gentlemen riders race, young Carman, who rode the winner, and Jimmy Blute, who trains for Mr. Carman, started a man, who has been around the jumpers for a quarter of a century, to go into history, writes A. B. Smith in the New York Telegraph. "Blutc Is liaviog a lot of luck now, isnt he, and hes a good fellow with his money, too, I hear," said he. "Jimmy used to be a rider himself. Yes, trained and rode for E. D. Morgan in the old Cedarhurst and Meadow Brook days. Its a hard life, steeplechase riding, no matter what they tell you different. And in those days they had a hard lot ot horses. "Worse than now, did you say? Well, I should say so." "AVhy, they grabbed any old broken-down horse off the flat and sent him at the jumps then with no schooling at all. Half of them didnt know what schooling was when they went in their first race. Blute will tell you the kind he rode sometimes. "Tom Little was riding around that time for James Gordon Bennett and when he came to a hard jump like the Liverpool lie made arrangements to save himself, I tell you, whether the horse got over or not took a collar-and-elbow hold, as we used to call it. "Ob, yes, they had some good jumpers then, of course. Trouble, Drumstick, Zeita, Disturbance and Coronet, and Jim McGowan was a good one, too. Bill Daly had one now and then that could jump, and George Craig, of Canada, and others. But if this English horse, John M. P., that Mr. Wid-ener has now, can he broken of that way he has of going at the jumps he will be a better jumper than any of them. -Hes the making of a great jumper, and with a man like Pat Meaney to break him would be a wonder. "Do I know Meaney? Why, hes a townle of mine from Lisinore, in County AVaterford. Meaney was a great man with a juniper. There were two families of Meaney s in AVaterford one of them was all gentlemen riders and the other was all professionals. Pat was the best of them all, but hes got money now and plenty of it. Yes, and never bothers about em any more. Pat was always thrifty."
