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JOCKEV ALLEN GOOD GAME RIDER Not Responsible for Papps Losing Races Has Handled tho Colt Well. By Ed Cole. New York, September 5. Many have blamed jockey Allen for races lost by the good two-year-old Papp. W. S. Vosburgh, who is probably the closest observer of races in this country, thinks differently. In speaking of the running of the Hopeful Stakes at Saratoga last Thursday, he intimated that Allen had won more races with the horse than other riders, might have done. "While I do not say Allen should have won the Hopeful Stakes, he did as well as, and probably better than,, many more fashionable riders would have done," said the official handicapper. "Unlike many jockeys, Allen will take- a chance no matter how big the field. I- have seen him drive Papp through the proverbial knot hole and taken chances which I am confident some of our other riders would not have taken. We have a host of timid riders these days,, who pull up at the slightest provocation. . "A good rider should bo game and courageous. It is a great asset, at tho same time, jockeys should be able to judge between a possibility and an impossibility when an opening is presented during the running of a race. In my- opinion Allen has done well with Papp, though I think Sun Briar is slightly the better horse of the two, owing to the fact that he seems to rnn within himself .and answers to the whip whenever- it is necessary to call upon that implement." Max Hirsch evidently enjoys the same opinion as .Mr. .vosburgh ill regard to jockey Allen, as he continuously .rides him on Papp. Other riders have tried to handle him, hut none do so well as Allen, lie knows the horse and the horse knows him. They do team work; as. it were. Turf history has shown many times that a stable boy can sometimes get more out of, a horse than a fashionable jockey.
