CLEVER JOCKEY

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 42, 12 May 1927, Page 6

CLEVER JOCKEY

IS GOING TO AMERICA big money to be earned Keg. Marsden intends to leave on April 30 to try his skill as a rider in the United States. He is no more than human if his palms itch to handle some of the rich prizes which fall to the lot of the successful jockey. A story came to hand by the last American mail of the rapid rise to fame of a young rider, though, truth to tell, it is probably no more wonderful than of Keith Daniels, of Newcastle. STABLE BOY'S ROMANCE “Coliver’s Eye” wrote: “From a stable boy earning £l2 10s a month to a successful rider earning £2OO a month has been the rapid rise of Marion ‘Dairyman’ McGonigle, present leading race rider at the local tracks. “Eighteen months ago McGonigle gave up the life on a Wisconsin dairy farm to become a valet for Jockey Arthur Mortensen, when the latter was riding at the peak of his best form lor H. G. Shrimp, Mose Goldblatt and others. Though only 16 years of age, it did not take him long to acquire a knowledge of horses and how to ride them. Inside of two months aft°r he received his first opportunity McGonigle showed such skill tha* b-s services were in great demand.

“Pat Knebe.kamp handles the bo/ for H. G. Chimp, of Chicago, owner of the International Stable. An offer of £2,400 for the boy’s contract was turned down ”