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SOMETHING ABOUT JOCKEY McCAHEY. Turf hist irv teaches that after a Jockey ana been donning the sflks fir ten years it is out of the ipios-tion to even think that another ten years of us,. fulness i,i the saddle is ahead of him. Joe Mi Cahej is one who bids fair to upset this turf tradition. Born in Philadelphia about. . twenty -seven years ago. his first work on a race course was with the staid." ot James Fitssimmons, this happening after he had celebrated bis sixteenth birthday, or course, there are many race-goers who will dispute this statement, claiming that McCahey has been here so long that be does not remember such s happening, Tillt this has nothing to do with the present tab.. *t the time mentioned there were many clever light-weight ridi is. ;.nd their services were so eagerly nought that the poorer Icrse owners of the time had litth opportunity to sngngc them when desired. So it was up to Fitxalmmona to develop whatever talent McCahey poskeboed, am] so well was hi, work accomplished that McCahey waa ea ablcd to make an early bid for popularity. Fits •iiniiii-. deciding to winter his stock sfter tie fall meeting at flic Renning course in 1007, permitted Ihe late James Mannix to take Mclahev t . New Orleans that winter. He slave 1 with the stable of tie latter horseman until the hatters death, and then returned to Fitssimmons. Though sec noted in these previous years as better than a fair soil of Jockey, it has been only during the last tour years that "old Man Joe" has been known as one ..t the best leight wt lights en the American furl. Last season he finished second on the li-t. scoring 155 victories oat of 824 mounts and earning 21. H45 for the owners of the horses which he rode. Ihe bright Ulifs never had any attraction for McCahey. lie has been of the Industrious, thinly sort ever since he firsl became acquainted with the vglue ■■ unsl ™ dollar, and he i- said to lie worth about S5n.NN . We.gtling bill ninety live pounds, he bids fair to ride for many years yet to come, in fact he will never nreigh but a few pounds more, come what may. To date his record -hows that he has had 4.720 mounts, of which he wou 771. a respectable percentage of .16. In money won for his employers his record is 8488,883.
