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DANNY MAHERS WAYS WITH HORSES. So much has been written about poor Maher that it is little I can say, except that he Avas the finest horseman of all later-day jockeys, and had an appearance of blood and breeding about himself which harmonized him with blood-horses in a manner that the horses themseH-cs seemed sensible of. Many a nervous or broken-hearted animal Avould give its best running in his gentle hands. A most notable case Avas Collet Monte, which would show no AXstige of her form for another jockey; but Maher declared he could win the Yorkshire Oaks on her, and Mr. Lamhton let her run. witli the result that she Avon in a cantor. Again she won at Doncaster the following year, but she Iia.d utterly failed in the interim witli other jockeys, and then at last Maher coaxed her into doing her best. He Avas a vastly finer horseman than TYd Sloan, though the latter had qualities of jockey-ship which will perhaps never be rivalled. Sloaji was no horseman at all, and he has described how in his early days he Aas positively afraid of a horse and how long it avtis before he . could sit on one Avithout danger of falling off. For long he was a bye-word among jockeys, and his ultimate success Avas due to obstinate perseverance and hitting on his special method of riding. He impro-ed immensely during his time in England, but he never was a horseman as Maher av.-.s, and it was for tills reason that the American seat was so reviled by the old .stagers. Malier showed to perfection how horsemanship of the best and the advantage of the forward seat could be assimilated. W. .Allison in London Sportsman.
