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RECORD OF DANNY MAHER American Jockey With International Reputation Rode 1,771 Winners, 1,421 Abroad. It has been quite a long time since Danny Maher retired from the saddle, but with the advent of each new year, when the records of the great riders, past and present, find their way into print, Mahers is recalled as one of the best made by the international riders of his time. Maher was an American, but he did the bulk of his riding in England, and it was on John Bulls island that he met with his greatest successes. He was born in Hartford, Conn., October 29, 1881, and was a nephew of "Father Bill" Daly, the great tutor and developer of jockeys. Mahers maiden victory was scored on a horse named Phoebus at Providence, R. I. Maher retired in 1914, after riding in 6,780 races and winning with 1,771, for a grand average of .26. This was a high percentage of winners covering a period as long as sixteen years of activity in two countries. He went to England in 1900 and rode 5,626 races in that country. His English average was .25. He rode 1,421 winners over there, after having run up a total of 350 in a comparatively short time in the United States, where his winning average was .30. He captured some of the greatest of English stakes. Three Epsom Derbys went to his credit, his mounts being Rock Sand, Cicero and Spearmint. One of his early victories was in the Thousand Guineas, with Aida. He won the St. Leger with Rock Sand and Bayardo, and the Ascot Gold Cup with Bachelors Button and Bayardo. He won the Epsom Oaks with Keystone II., owned by Lord Derby; the Manchester Cup with Bachelors Button, theJockey Club Stakes with Lemberg and the Two Thousand Guineas, in 1912, with H. B. Dur-yeas Sweeper n. He figured in a dead heat in the Sandown Eclipse Stakes of 1910, his mount, Neil Gow, and Lemberg sharing the honors. Before he went to England Maher won some American stakes that have since been discontinued. In 1898 he won the First Special at old Gravesend with Briar Sweet. He won the Eclipse Stakes at Belmont Park in 1899 and 1900 with His Royal Highness and Irritable. In 1899 he won the Brooklyn and Toboggan Handicaps with Banastar. That same year he won the Tremont Stakes with Maribert and repeated the next year with Blues. Lothario was his winning mount in the Champagne Stakes of 1898. In 1900 he rode Ethelbert to victory in the Metropolitan Handicap. In each of his last seven years of riding Maher had a leg up in more than 400 races and in only one of these years did he fall below 100 winners. He was one short of this mark in 1911. His biggest winning year was his first. 1898, when he rode 191 winners. In 1908 he rode 139 winners. His record, including his winning percentage for each year, follows: Tear. Mounts. 1st. P.C. 1893 512 191 .37 1899 368 103 - .28 1900 274 56 .20 1900 128 27 .21 1901 418 94 .22 1902 451 106 .24 1903 298 56 .19 1904 462 115 .25 1905 411 101 .25 1906 353 103 .29 1907 424 114 .27 1908 491 139 .23 1909 424 116 .27 1910 460 127 .28 1911 436 99 .23 1912 443 109 .25 1913 427 115 .27 Totals.... 6,780 1,771 .26 America. .. .1,154 350 .30 England 5,626 1,421 .25
