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1 , j i i , MLAUGHLhVS TALE OF TURF j Former Great American Riders Story of His Work in the Saddle in the Old Days. i j Recently Jimmly McLaughlin was enticed ; j into telling something of his remarkable ca- j reer as a rider in the period from 1875 to j 1891, and told this interesting tale: j "I rode my first race in Hartford in 1875 on Father Bill Dalys mare Loreno against , Kadi, with Hughes, one of the leading jock- ! eys, in the saddle and he won both heats, i After, that I rode a few races at the fairs j around Hartford and in Massachusetts. From there Daly took a trotter, a pacer and a j runner to a winter meeting at Madison j Square Garden. I weighed only seventy-five j pounds. I rode against Benner, Mace and Murphy, noted trotting horsemen. I did not lose a race on Loreno at that meeting and I also won with the trotter and pacer. "I remember one night I had to ride six heats to win the pacing race. There were three dead heats and I won the last three heats. In 1877 we went to Jerome Park and I rode my first race on a metropolitan track on Lady Salyers, owned by. Col. McDaniel. At that meeting I won a number of races on Princeton. That same year I rode jumpers ; atvBenning. "I .won on Dandy a. mile heat race over hurdles, beating Deadhead, with Nolan up, and Problem, with the late Jim McCormick up. In 1878 I rode the same horse at Saratoga mile heats over hurdles, winning both heats. Dandy carried 140 pounds. I weighed eighty-five pounds, my saddle fifteen pounds, and I had to carry forty pounds of lead. I rode the same horse in a steeplechase at Jerome--Park. That fall I rode Lizzie D. in a steeplechase at Pimlico and also rode Wild Oats two miles over hurdles at Saratoga. HIS FIRST RACE FOR D WYE It BROS. "The same day I rode my first race for tho Dwyer Brothers on Rhadmanthus, the plater that founded the fortunes of the brothers, beating Susquehanna, with Hayward up. The Dwyers made arrangements with Daly to take me to Louisville to ride Bramble in the Stallion Stakes, which I won. Mr. Rowe went with the Dwyer brothers in 1878, taking the place of E. Snedeker, one of the leading trainers of his time. Snedeker had said that Bramble would never go over a mile and I won five straight cup races with him in 1879, each at two miles and a quarter. "In my opinion Luke Blackburn was the best horse I ever rode and Tremont the best two-year-old. The iatter won thirteen Straight races and never was touched with the whip or spus. He did not race after his two-year-old form, having developed a ringbone. I rode for the Dwyers ten years, during which time I was the leading jockey. I went with the Chicago Stable in 1889,. but jrut on flesh so rapidly that I found it difficult to keep down to riding weight. "The same year I came East from Chicago to ride Salvator in the Realization for Mr. Haggin and Torso for W. L. Scott in the Double Event, winning both races, Salvator beating Tenny in the Realization. The same night I returned to Chicago and engaged Bob Drew, who now drops the timers flag, to reduce my weight. "The next day I had to ride Huntress, 122 pounds, and in the morning I had to take three long walks to make the weight. In 1891 I rode His Highness in the Futurity and won, His Highness carrying 130 pounds. The field made sixteen false starts and I made one break and that was tht start. My weight kept me from riding after that. "In 1887 Richard K. Fox of New York offered a diamond whip to the jockey winning the most races that year. At the time Garrison, was eighteen races ahead of me and I beat him by eighteen at the end of the year. I have the whip yet and I have a son who, I tli ink, is the best boy I ever saw on a liorse."
