SLOAN HAS A TALK.

Otago Witness, Issue 2356, 20 April 1899, Page 36

SLOAN HAS A TALK.

The London Evening News has had a talk with Sloan, the American .jockey, in New York, who eaid, among other things: "I can make '£20,000 this season. I have made ten thousand a .year several seasons in America, and the principal reason for my going to England was that I found I could earn double the amount. My estimate is based entirely on fees for riding; I don't bet. I can't understand how the statement that I had been betting ever, got into English newspapers. I shall make my home in London, and shall live at the Cecil until I get a house. I shall have 'all Lean do, and I don't think that I am oversanguine when I say that I believe 1 shall achieve my ambition and head the winning jockeys for the season. I ride just the same as I did before I went to England. My position in the saddle is the same. I employ hlightly different tactics in England from lhoi=e I us-.e on American tracks, "and do more front riding there- because I have a reason for it. Here I more frequently wailed. lam guided in thai by the manner in which the race is run, the pare, and the riding of the jockejc opposed to me. I never get into the saddle with any cut-and-dried plan of action. I may outline a general idea ol what may be

necessary to- win, but something that may appear trifling at first may compel an entire change in methods. For that reason I dis- ' like having^anything to think of except the race that I am riding in. I concentrate my thoughts on getting to the winning post first j j I have found that quite enough to occupy me j without figuring bets. I like- England better I than America, because the English understand I racing better- English courses are superior^to American, because they axe- straightaways."