D. MAHER, THE AMERICAN HORSEMAN.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1245, 26 February 1914, Page 12

D. MAHER, THE AMERICAN HORSEMAN.

The American horseman, D. Maher, is a native of Hartford, Connecticut, and comes of Irish parentage. Born in 1881, he was never apprenticed, but at an early age became asociated with the stable of his uncle, Mr. M. Daly, and won his first race at Providence, Rhode Island, at the age of 14. An exchange says that before leaving America for England in 1900, he won 349 races on his native soil, and up to the close of last season in England he had 1420 winning mounts for less than 14 seasons’ riding. His top score was in 1908, when he piloted 139 winners, while his worst year was 1903, when, owing to the resluts of a motor car accident, he had only 5 6 wins. During his English racing career, Maher has only once been asked to explain his riding, and that was at Leicester, where he had the mount on Lord Rosebery’s Sallust, a very bad-tempered horse. The loca authorities passed the matter on to the stewards of the Jockey Club, who in dismissing it, exonerated Maher from all blame, while Lord Rosebery endorsed the actions- of the stewards by a handsome souvenir, suitably inscribed, and renewed his claim as first jockey. Save this one claim Maher rides as a free lance.

The full-brother and sister, Jolie File and Worcester, were racing without success at Claudelands last week.