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quiet style did not please the self-appointed critics, came in 

 for a good deal of censure, and it was freely stated that 

 Archer had out-ridden him. After the race, Black Diamond 

 was sold to Mr. John Martin, who on the following day asked 

 Osborne to ride the filly, and Osborne consented, as Wadlow 

 had said nothing to him about riding Frolic. Archer happened 

 to have the mount on Frolic, who was accordingly made 

 favourite at 75 to 40 on him. The result of the race was 

 similar to that of the previous day, and Archer's severe finish 

 got Frolic only a little nearer the winner. Even Osborne, 

 who always took his victories gravely, had a smile on his face 

 as he returned to scale. " I thought I had won at the 

 distance," said Archer to him in the weighing room. " So 

 did I yesterday," replied the Northern jockey. 



Fashionable jockeys are particularly liable to become 

 recipients of indiscriminating praise. A follower of that 

 good jockey Sloan, when discussing the Liverpool November 

 meeting of 1898 with a fine judge of racing, could hardly find 

 words sufficiently laudatory of the way in which the American 

 had ridden Nouveau Riche in the Liverpool Stakes, and was 

 specially warm in his admiration of Sloan for not having lost 

 any ground. The man whom he addressed reminded him 

 that Sam Loates rode an equally fine race on the same horse 

 a couple of days later for the Grosvenor Cup, and that he won 

 still more easily, although he was carrying 4 Ib. more. At the 

 same meeting it was said that Weatherall caught Sloan nap- 

 ping in the race for the Feather Plate, when Philopena beat 

 Samandal by a neck. This was not the case ; because Sloan 

 as usual made the best of his way and got on the inside ; but 

 his horse failed to stay. 



Some advice to jockeys given by Tod Sloan in a New York 

 paper is worth noting. He considers that want of pluck is 

 the cause of the failure of many and says : " Fear is the 

 curse of every jockey to-day who has not overcome it, and 



