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RESPECT FOR THE GREAT ARCHER. "Why ever dont you run it off, Hammond?" queried a friend. "Well, you see," replied the worthy Jack, "Will-oughby might take Loates off Harvester and put the long tin up, and then where would we lie;" The scene was Epsom, shortly after that memorable dead heat between St. Gatien and Harvester in the year 18S1. The remark of the late Jack Hammond may not have been too complimentary as to the abilities of Loates and Wood, but it demonstrates in the most emphatic manner the respect in which Archer was held by the racing men of his day. His day! Why, Archer was the best jockey of his day or any other day. and heaven help the modern monkey -up-n-stick croucher if ever an Archer should again rise in the land. I have listened with burning ears to people who have had the audacity to compare some of the modern "monkey crouchcrs" with the greatest jockey of all time to the latters discredit, forsooth and I have often itched to ask them one or two questions. While we arc on tha subject, I may as well ask them publicly. In the first place, I should like to know whether they can Point to any jockey since Archers day who has headed the list of winning jockeys for thirteen successive years. A silence pregnant with meaning is the only reply I cap hope to expect. Again, has any Jockey, either before or since Archers time, ever ridden over 200 winners a year for sis years? London Sporting Life.
