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JOCKEY CRUMP NOT FOR SALE. A- the leading rider in America hist year nraa tba star of tlie Cinadian cin uit. so this year the leader, litt!- Willie Cramp, who hoi up to the first of this month an advantage of a half BOMB winning mounts over Robinson, is a boy whose reputation is Canadian made. He is now riding in Kentucky for his contract employer E. W. II «, whose horses come on to Woodbine at. the close of Lexington, though Crump will ride in tlie Kentucky D -rhy before following them to Toronto. A dispatch fun. Lexington says that tie- eaTer made by a rich New-York owner for the services of Cramp has beea raised tiU it amounted to 3,000, bat the answer waa that Crumps contract was not for sale. The hoy is an orphan and his employer is also his legal guardian. Cramps riding ability is not an accident, and he is not of tin- class of jockeys selling newspapers: on tic street one day and the next day piloting a racehorse. •• lias really beea carefully nad thoroughly schooled to his trade, and that i-. Why in- knows it so well, allowance beiag made for his natural liking for the wm k. Cramp was not pat up wilh the colors en unt il he had spent tare* years training for that first appearance. lie rode homes at exercise, and evi ry day nraa sent to the starting barrier with horses to be schooled, so tliat he ami his me -.nits both learned something. No detail of the things necessary t i develop a finished rider was omitted or overlooked by hi- preceptor, aba-self a capable and experienced bora man. Hut all tie tbnje the hoy was never allowed to rid I i races, and his experience was not gained at the expense of other owners. Winn the time arrived for a demonstration of the result of a!! this training. Crump.- apprentice license was taken out. and he went to the Jockeys null and put on the i oiors. which In- has worn with conspicuous success eve,- since. He was a "made" rider, and he good fortune that has attended his work was earn id, not chanced.- Francis Ndsoa in Toronto Globe,
