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pushing and shoving where they have no business to go, and on the face of it often 

 trying to win by trick when the chance of winning by honest riding seems hopeless. 

 In all probability such wild riding as was seen all through the Doncaster Meeting of 

 the present year ( 1 900) was never equalled a hundred years ago when the ' cross 

 and jostle ' style was allowed, but though little else was talked of during the week, 

 the steward's did nothing more than warn one jockey and suspend another for a 

 single day." 



Lord Durham's indignation was well founded. But he carefully made one 



By permission of Leopold de Rothschild, Esq. 



" Tommy and Toddy " ; or the English and 

 American seat, Newmarket, 1898. 



exception in his indictment. In that year D. Maher arrived from Connecticut 

 for the first time on September 21, aged about eighteen, and rode 27 winners 

 his first season, got second on the list in 1901 with 94, and won a higher percentage 

 than any one else in 1902. Of him Lord Durham wrote that "he rides well 

 and seems a most respectable boy." In July, 1903, Maher had a very severe 

 accident in a motor-car, and got off much better than was at first expected by 

 only losing a portion of his season. But other critics, who had, perhaps, less 

 concern for the moral aspect of the question, and certainly felt less responsibility 



