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"TOD" SLOANS GREAT HORSEMANSHIP. The banishment of "Tod" Sloan from England will give rise to many recollections of incidents in the noted riders meteoric career. One tine piece of horsemanship on his part is well remembered by the followers of the fortunes of Mr. Seagrams stable. That was his victory on old Joe Miller in the Russet Handicap at Sheepshead Ray eighteen years ago. The Queens Plate winner of MM was a cunning rascal three years later, and unwiling to do much either iu work or in races. He was a horse of much more ipiality than he cared to show, and his sluggish disposition made him a difficult animal to train. It was common enough to see Mr. Charles Boyle, then in charge of the Waterhx. horse, play an old trick on *M in order to get him to work fas.. When it was his workday at Wo .dbine he was brought out in the morning with four or five others in the set. and the boys on them arrayed in racing colors. They were lined up at tile head of tlie stretch and sent away as if f r a race, and Joe Miller would then put some heart into his gallop. as the surroundings were those of an actual contest. Taking a horse of this temperament, Sloan had a task of no common difficulty to get him to run kindly and well enough to Ix-at the. record, but that is what he accomplished on this occasion. Laying in behind Jefferson until into the stretch the second time. Joe Miller came on at the right moment, and won by half a length, with Rensselaer third, a length and a half back. Behind these were I.obengula, Don de iro. Song and Dance. Lincoln II. and Deer-slaver. The distance was a mile and a half, and the time. 2::*4-.. stood unbeaten us the record for the grass course far a gmxl many year--. Joe Millers weight ill the handicap was ninety six pounds, but Sloan was three poinds over. Dannv Mahev. then a featherweight, r.xle fix- sei I horse. Jefferson, at eighty-live p-nnnls. Sloans iierlorin-ance was a remarkable demonstration of supr-ine ability to get the lxst out of a horse, and without punishment. He carried neither whin nor spurs tin uch other riders found that Joe Miller required a lot of rousing before he would extend himself. —Francis Nelson in Toronto Globe.
