STORIES BY JOCKEYS

Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 137, 11 June 1936, Page 13

STORIES BY JOCKEYS

- A good story of how he secured the. mount on a horse that the stewards had brought back Irom the post is told by an Australian jockey -to "the representative of a" Perth journal. , I' .'T had an idea that*they were going to change the jockey," he said, "as the horse,' who opened favourite, had drifted in the betting. Rushing, over to the weighing yard I placed myself handy and was selected to ride, the animal. I naturally saw that it did not win, as I had a 'spinnaker' (£5) on the horse who duly won."' Another jockey relates how he secured a mount at a country meeting which he thought was going to result in a handsome fee. - "I knew I could get the ride on any one of four horses engaged in the last race," he said, "and 'decided to accept

the first offer. While I was waiting for somebody to come along, I was approached by two men who said they had a punter who was willing to back a certain horse and that they could get me the mount. If I won I was to receive £50. I agreed to ride the horse. A little later the trainer of the horse came to me and said that the owner was laying me £50 to nothing. This was something out of the ordinary—£so in two places for winning a race at a country meeting. '.'Well, to make a long story short, my horse was successful and the two men who had approached me took me over, to the bar. 'This is Mr, Blank,' they said. 'He is the owner and here is your money.' J thanked the owner, and as I walked away with the two men who had secured me the mount X asked them if the other punter had vanished. 'There was nobody else, they said, 'but you can think yourself lucky that the owner backed, his horse. He had lost £100 during the afternoon and we ■ had difficulty in persuading him to punt him!' "After giving each of the men a 'fiver,"' said the jockey, "and handing the trainer a 'tenner' I did not do as well as I expejcted, but as I had two other winning mounts that afternoon there was nothing to complain about."'

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