158 SAM DARLING'S REMINISCENCES 



I go with the times in most things; but race- 

 riding (if we could find jockeys as good as 

 those I've mentioned) I would welcome back to- 

 morrow. 



I should explain, perhaps, as showing the reason 

 why Maher's methods differ from those of Sloan 

 in his first seasons here, that practically all races 

 now are run at a much faster pace than they used 

 to be, and the English jockeys, having by bitter 

 experience come to understand Sloan's trick of 

 waiting in front at a false pace, no longer permit 

 themselves to be hoodwinked in that way. There- 

 fore, of course, Maher has been up against an 

 entirely different proposition from the very simple 

 one which confronted Sloan in his early days of 

 riding in England. 



Madden, who rode Ard Patrick for the Eclipse 

 Stakes, had, to all intents and purposes, adopted 

 the American style, as modified by experience. 



