Tod Sloans View Of It., Daily Racing Form, 1912-07-04

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TOD SLOANS VIEW OF IT ITPhe Tlie rIl En Eager er colt Jaeger which ran second in therecemit the therlClmt recent Epsom Derby is pronounced h by Toll SllInnthe Sloan Sloanthe the handsomest horse he IIII humus seen In any countrySloan count country n nSioun Sloan raised the ire of English riders b by this riartof UlIit UlIitof uart of his signed stot story of the Derby in The I London LonoonDally omidouIaily Daily Expre Express ExpressAfter ExpressAfter s After inspecting the horses and seeing seeing the rac raceI race I came to the conclusion that your 0111 threeyearolelsarl threeyearolds are not as good cJ1 as they are in France and as fOlsOllie for forsome some of your nnr jollI jockeys S rldln riding y yesterday yesterdaywell iItrlaywell well tbpyare thev thevare are a shame to England I go farther it would bo hoa e el a disgrace to any country It 8tHe silt surely ely I is a lellectlonon reflection on the horsemanship of Englishmen that eight of oftIw ofthe the twenty twcnt jodc jockeys s ridin riding in the Derby should be beeither heeither either American French or Colonial I cant Jm Jmaglue Ima Im ¬ a agine IrU nllthln anything worse than the horsemanship of theluglisli the theEulih English lK lays ys s yesterday There were some of themI them I wouldnt allow to ride exercise at the racing racingstables racingstahls stables mor more of them ought to be the chefs assistants as asslgtnnts ¬ sistants In the kitchen of a restaurant It ismtonly isnt istnul nul only that the they have no skill but they have no nerve nerveThey nerverhey They are afraid to seize an opening Icllin afraid to take takethe taketlw the sll slightest htest ris risk They lhe just jog along the Rafestwn safest safestway wn way thl they can I dont think your onr hIJst horses s are as asgood good 01111 now as they are in Franco The French horses horsesl l do 10 o less work on the tralnln training grounds and more on onthe onthe the race course oursI In France it is nothing for a horse horseto horseto to run thirh thirty times In the course of a season If a acolt ncolt colt runs l iu half a score of races in this countryeverylady country countryIvr everybody Ivr holly sa says s he is heln being overdone All this cOllIlIing co1dlhmg cod ¬ dling of joele jockeys and cot1llllu coddling of horses 11 is not doing doingEn doingEnglislm English En lih llcIn racing any good ood I thin think you have a good gooddeal 00l1 00l1deal deal to learn from the French methods where llIre thljocke the thejockeys jocke jockeys s have to do real 1Ightin lighting I if r they want to win wina a race and the horses spend their days ays on the cOIllSeinHteHl course courseInstead instead of in the stables


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