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PIGSKIN PRODIGIES OF FOREIGN TURF. "What a life for a youngster! Steering galloping thoroughbreds to victory, cheered on by thou sands. No wonder so many little fellows sigh, Id like to be a Jockey. Take a peep at the two champion youthful jockeys of; England and France," says London Tit-Bits. "Frank Wootton. son of R. Woottoii. the trainer, on his fifteenth birthday last December, totaled up his earnings for the year. After deducting all a jockeys considerable expenses", they amounted to 0,000. Wootton won his first race when ten years old. His riding weight is a little over 84 pounds. "It is a . curious coincidence that Woottons last mount before his serious accident this June should have been on Poor .Boy. And Poor B03! ever3-one was saying later that afternoon when he had been unhorsed and dangerously- kicked on the head. , His first race .whew,, repovered, he again resumed his dazzling career was .on Envy! "There were several professional backers who. following Wootton as their S3"Stem, did not have a penny on a" race during the weeks that the youngster was laid up. Stanley Wootton, Franks 3-ounger brother, is likewise a coming race horse pilot who has been scoring of late. "In France, diminutive Maurice Barat is now top winning jockey. He is nineteen, and the first French rider to capture the Grand Prix. Wheu eight .vears old he rode a horse in a circus. But he longed, to be a real jocke3. though his mother had no fancy for his adopting that dangerous calling. .He was engaged in selling programs at a Paris entertainment hall when a well-known Freiich trainer, amused at his enthusiasm for the turf, took him for a week on trial. Youug Barat never went back. In two years be was an accomplished racing horseman and won an Important provincial event. Last season he had over 500 mounts, riding iiearl.v 100 winners. "W. Clements, the- lightweight jockey, though he is now well on in the twenties, may certainly be considered a prodig3 He is able to go to scale it 87 pounds, and has won practically every race of importance In South Africa, where his successes have. been phenonienaL "A record as regard wWglft that has never been -beaten is that of Kitchener. When he won the Chester Cup on Red Deer in 1S44 he scaled 49 pounds. Four .vears previously his bodily weight in silks and can was 2! pounds. "The race for the first Ascot Stakes resolved It self virtually Into a match between The Skater and an unnamed filly. After a spirited set-to. the latter, ridden by a little boy named Bell, won by less than a length. It was Queen Victorias first appearance Jn state at Ascot. After the race her juu.iest.y requested Lord Lichfield to bring the tiny Jockey before her. and. with kindly words of encouragement, the queen gave bin .0. Boll weighed only 50 pounds,"
