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WEIGHING IN By EVAN SHIPMAN Continued from Page Four younger when he sent Knights Quest to the post on June 2, 1942 at Belmont, but a keen sense of personal responsibility must already have been well developed with this horseman. Over the years, he has stood by his unfortunate jockey, Tom Roby, not only paying for the extras that can make life — we choke on the word "comfortable" — at least endurable, but visiting him frequently, hoping, however vainly, that some contact with the outside world will break the monotony of those endless hours, staring at nothing. The Jockeys Guild does not accept steeplechase riders as members — why. we do not know, but it does not. Nevertheless, the Jockeys Guild, while it was of no material help to Roby in his predicament, did contribute largely for a television set .that is now set up in the private room Sharp provides for him. Both Sharp and Robys nurse say that his eyes respond to what he sees on television, that he seems to smile when the picture on the screen is gay, and that tears roll silently down his cheeks when the story is sad.
