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KING EDWARDS TRAINER ON JOCKEYS. Loudon, Eng.. August 20. King Edwards, trainer. Richard Marsh, has been giving his views of present-day jockeys to Frys Magazine. Mr. Marsh says: "Riding and training have never been the same since the Americans came over, about IS!!, and unsettled everything. The butcher boy crouch on the withers style of riding is the curse of racing at lie present time. It has resulted in bad riding, foul riding and in laming more horses than ever was the case before the Americans came over. "It is all a mistake." says the royal trainer, "to think that Sloan was a jockey of tills sort. He had perfect hands, the best I have ever known a lockey to possess, and he was certainly one of the best "I have ever known. If he made the running he did it at his own pace he was such a wonderful iudge of pace. You didnt see him bucketing a horse along from start to finish and doing everything possible to break its legs and its heart. "Yes." continued Mr. Marsh, "I believe in the old English seat and the long leathers, and if a jockey wishes to ride short, let him ride also with his head. If he wants to make the running let him do it so that he waits in front. "Malier is a good jockey because he rides with his head, and all those English jockeys who immediately adopted the Yankee crouch did so believing tiiat they were doing what was necessary to imitate Sloan and Malier. Then they thought that it was only necessary to come belter-skelter from pillar to post. They forgot those other qualities that made Sloan the great jockey he was."
