Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 January 1919 — JIMMIE M’LAUGHLIN WAS GREAT JOCKEY [ARTICLE]

JIMMIE M’LAUGHLIN WAS GREAT JOCKEY

Was Popular Idol Over Period of Nearly Fifteen Years. “Snapper" Garrison and Isaac Murphy Had Many Followers—Luke Blackburn Was Called Best Horse Turf Has Known. , Racing fans of the days when Jimmy McLaughlin, “Snapper” Garrison and Isaac! Murphy were names as well known in sporting circles as those of Ty Cobb, Christy Mathewson and Grover Cleveland Alexander are today, will dispute even now as to which of the trio was the better jockey. Many handed the palm to McLaughlin for the reason -that be continued a popular idol over a period of nearly 15 years and even now is a trusted official at the tracks, being a patrol judge for the Jockey club. McLaughlin, like a great number of famous riders, was a pupil of “Father Bill” Daly and like all the rest thanks the old martinet for his teachings. McLaughlin had the mount on the best horses that raced between 1878 and 1892. In tfie former year he went to the Dwyers, and the foundation of the fortune gained by the Brooklyn turfmen was laid with the Hartford rider piloting such horses as Luke Blackburn, Hindoo, George Kinney, Bramble and Miss Woodford, all bf which were trained by James Rowe. The late Philip Dwyer always maintained that Luke Blackburn was the best horse he had ever owned or seen, and his brothet, Michael, equally positive in his claims for Hindoo. “Blackburn was the best race horse I ever saw,” says McLaughlin. “Tremont was the best two-year-old. I won 13 races on him and never touched him with the whip. Hourless was as good a three-year-old as we have had. I liked him because of his great speed and the ease with which he could be placed. He could stay, too. As a campaigner season after season Roamer would get my vote as the best of all time. Flrenzl would be my choice of all the mares, and I <rode many good ones.”