A REPUDIATING OWNER 



as I have always been rather an ingratiating sort of 

 person. I have always had the idea that I would 

 either cut myself out or the other fellow could, if we 

 did not hit it. Suffolk tried to fall foul of me on various 

 occasions, but one evening after I had known him 

 about three months he told me that he had been 

 quite mistaken, and asked me whether I could accept 

 him as a friend. Suffolk used to do commissions for 

 certain well-known owners — that was when the book- 

 makers were allowed and betted on the rails of the 

 weighing enclosure. When they were suppressed, and 

 betting declared illegal, his " graft " — English sense — 

 was finished, and he made up his mind to retire to 

 England ; he eventually settled at Leicester. Would 

 you believe it ? One owner gave him the cold and 

 glassy when he tried to collect the existing balance. 

 Suffolk went to his house and mentioned the difference 

 and this French titled person raised his riding whip 

 to him when he began to assert that he had done a 

 certain commission which up to that time had re- 

 mained unsettled. We all know that Suffolk was a 

 fighting sort of man, but in this case he was simply 

 asking for what was his. The idea of a man repudi- 

 ating when betting became illegal for what he would 

 be drawn over is certainly a bit thick. Suffolk did some 

 pretty big commissions for good men and was right in 

 it up to the time they stopped it all. 



I was at Longchamp one Saturday in 1901 when 

 Danny Maher came over to ride : it was his first 

 experience on a French racecourse, and he took three 

 events that afternoon. Maclntyre, Rigby, Patsy 

 Freeman, MacDermott, Cass Sloan and Mac Joynt were 

 all arrivals about that period. The coloured jockey 

 Simms, too, had a season or more there, but returned 

 to America. Mac Joynt has been specially engaged 



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