WINNING FAVORITES HI r WEEKLY MEETINGS TO BE THE BOOKIMAKERS HEAVILY HELD AT BRIGHTWOOD *
L. D. Sale. his mure did not have to showed himself a (taint to win By rmi«-h out of ftppri.it Plspnt.h to The Star. youngster A number of local her class to win her race, the fasti st heat the under the circumstances. horsemen, who for belnR 2.22 NKH" YORK. July J?..Judged by Fair is the finest looker that sue- business and other reasons V week horse- Play do not care to On the day following Mr fl- Ms it Hrirrhton this cess ftil sire has sent to the races follow the circuits havn * f.. v...." I (Thursdiiyt larg- Hastings was not In as w'.lli th«» Wittors anxious 10 senac men this s- and may a thorn In the good luck pHt*- men are ason, prove a little fun at home during the remainder iiik gviaiiiK ivKid. m trie 2 12 pare. In thin to Saratoga. Empire City, Fort side of Colin. Chapultepec, Friestone, race Mr. \\ atern had t.» xpens»s other stake winners before of the racing season. Wednesday !.ik«- th«* >1 ;st of the Canadian circuit, or wherever and Staminathey flekl, being last In the Frlf and the g-t through with him. His future career next a matinee will be given byafternoonthe absolutely nummary. may make the jump next week. Not will b" watched. L#arry \nC\>i*mirk was more fortunate. .»s they closely Brlghtwood Driving Club, and it is the lis little sorrel mar. teamed hv at any time this season have fields (>11 the same day Fond Heart, another My*otls, of the management to give intention"Goldsmith M Id Tommy, .sav« d her en- the Hastings two-year-old. earned her maiden t so large as now. yet proportion every Wednesday afternoon in the trance foe. The start Thurs!t\ \\a> t.: averagedhi-1 ors by another win for the Belmont matineesfirst this <>t" winning f;ivorit« s has continued fully up future as as the racing season lusts. season that Mynotis ha* made. a id stable. Quite a rarity to see the nursery long she may «1«> better when she few to the average colors In front twice one divided between has a moro In day, for The classes will be A, B races un«ler her lxlt. At Oil < lnde< 1 so well have backers August Belmont is an extensive Itv Thursday public although anu a ana t> will inciuau suuic ui tne Dorsey was up against the 111 ir«* winners that almost as much so as !»ay #ni» -i '.n landing well-played suer» b-eeder, Keene, horses which raced Ht Brightwood last again, with the dun mare KZdna pulled out of The western contingent here put over a Class t" may include some of the It se< <>nd il select. moM-y. |Yt«-r Ta\lor's Juh linta has male quite a gnp in the bookmakers' pm winner Wednesday in the youngsters owned in Washington that have got fourth money and saved his k S -rrano. Bred niran^ ranks; but as On whole pa me of racing is Iding Carthage, by four-yearoid never started in a race. In the last-named fee. 8ome t!* tl horses will find en* I>> Horai Resp< ss. the horse was raced with Ciass the heats will be half-mik* In # rally a survival of the (financially) probably gitgemenf* Went Viikih ui.t 1 the f.i.rs Ken* sui cess at Ijitonia early this month, and ones. If owners so desire, anil it is quit** in this section to t) arul downp of the sport are begin bloom, when thejr % ups litest.r:.n that well-known camiKiigner, Phil possible that the management may decide will turn the;: fa- * hotra ward and sa\e taken with due phil"- phy. for there are i i:n ii, ji 5* J u»I i rt'.i ill till** ui uia» i atro. to make all of the events half-mile heats snipping expenses. other days. Then the I'hil Finch party, J. T. Williams If viim-iinm.tii nriif«r It t iri t U' iv Thi> and sun, bought Carthage from Respess * ('< !» i at James R. Kit-nc's grreat Knights of Pythias affair Wednesday la*t * * and brought him on here. the fact that a score «»f horses j.av» air* earned him close developed Local events and l<»-al hoi sos * oiy V. t< ran Jim Williams is no stranger to remain in Washington tit to go to the Hu es have ho n - A-'.T*v '« i > is i; si r all homebreds, X- w his hors.-s Ram's Horn and _^_ / ff great y overshadowed t t £_" I York, ^ ^ if their owners would get them In during j t w it i?i ik t h«-lr u-r >»*rby Itadtke hip. the horse was for the Merchants and i nt or i1 { S* rites. But heavily backed, afi'air rests in the hands uf Jacob Manufacturers $10,* as uis work since ho got here has been 000 stakes. I'ub'.i * K »i i winner ;.i fi»T winner John Garrett and Henry Copperthite,Hilleary, curiosity has 1 u gilt-edged. i.s assurance a whetted for two w » t- t .! .»-»»vv th«- 1\« niucky which enough tl it big crowd ks pa> t t a razors Carthnge land d Jim Williams and the will be and worth . ? v a v i. t! s. present the racing edge as to whet .er the winner w >ti!d be the well named colt entire western delegation thousands of B Hot. his three-year-old bj his clever victory In fast time, withdollar. witnessing.Memphis owned gelding. Highball or the* > ::i his fefS V * Vot« r. impr« lively $7,ikl© -' 5 -m. r namne Fining suu on me norse % j California owned and hied mar-* " .at he M I' * * Snotni W;:i r.r i_ l< i: it at the was a "-; finish "His* sire, Serrano, i1 Torrid as the weather has been of Girl. Four ago - late, we<,ks .... rm s iiis <%»-h'Srat» d well-posted hoi n n 1"" is f > fast i."rs«- when on the turf, and seems : r« fer Pan. the of new has could see t«» it to have bred a better than he in this homestretch the speedway nothing hut nig ihal!. Aft r .1 !! r lint and r i.1 en iv. one. that is a wonder on a been kept several degrees hotter during the ge'dlng ho.it the mare at vll.e J o of simply muddy Liberty «!<> "I v.- \v:f in l.V» pnimls or track. week The hours one heat in the fist time of the ,a ! lie lit.-avy day evenings. speeding 'Jaf.i1* :as -! ;r !.» lro juois ' unds like a feather and Double Success. run from G p.m. to 8 p.m., and some very partisans thought It was ail overHighballlor s-houldortd 1*Jf» Duryea's the mare and all Uters need 1 n: rr.:! i va .n warm contests can be seen free of charge do when he Another Respess development, Dick reached Detroit was to ro ij in the st tnd : ill1 which will Pin' by to the course during the hours phei. neli. ;i full brother to Dick Welles of 1.37 2-5 driving and c'.aim the money. Hut hk t rat tl" in. Hal!- .. w- i > of Pet or named. The backstretch of the mile r. .rJ fame, also scored on the same speedway mart' camo back, and the following we< k . s : with 'I fiit- i< season, I'm in ! has been barred from the c it all % publ put over M M.' rn. ! \ S \ K1*to. Frank day and put the westerners on "velvet." ALLEBTON, JR. Highball. Then Home Co. for some time by the superintendent people began to f two-year-olds in clever fasliion. A GRANDSON OF ALLERTON. and has brought him up in light harness in j-ie is a cnestnut, standing flrteen hands the construction of a bridge across the curb which made him lame and ir- now ! 11 t Ball r»t. how- this three unsteady. y» black hnr.se. city. Inches, and carries himself with the canal. When the bridge is completed there Previous to his last race at I.il>ei ,11 ev« :i »i in f. Jl'.o Brighton Derby Flnnell greatly resembles, Allerion. took the ty vil>, Jr., blue ribbon In his alert poise and elastic action found only will be an driveway of sev- which he was beaten Sonoma It Is t \f .it the B« ;i«*h. In cnlor. his famous brother, and as excepthe Above Is a photograph of Mr. Frank E. class at Manassas last week after In the most and uninterrupted by Girl, having sensitive highly strung of erai miles along the Potomac. There seems »iid that worked a mile for >!e' ;s w! r !' ttT i'an \\1;1 :.av< Zambesi as his s- ems t<« be Improving with every race will been driven all the from the Highball Aitemus six-year-oiu reg sterna trotter, way Washington thoroughbreds. lie Is a grandson of to rest in the minds of some persons in and a half mile 111 one minute . bear now. two stable r. watching right along one liors. s of days previously. He was p.tted the champion sire, Allerton. The in the as to the Rust-',en's form somersault jr., of the notable ailerton, a speedway anxiety interestedHat. !' I i; Is in the Snratocra Thursday left against very good field, comprising many was made In Potomac Park Tuesdayphotographfuture Intentions of the government toward we at th«» the nil enormous amount of with Washington. Mr. Altemus has owned him horses which had been ease * .\i ndav k Springs,han> <>< I- t -ns i»f on a? compared -with any means. The winner, owned by the Insure Marie she traces In the line weight Bteepleehase through the Hrighton field. financier, but this year their winnings will better work at the barrier. Whtlp some nt Is lost to the horsemen of the paternal on older division; young millionaire Herman has way District 1m:"«sts the handicap Duryea, This horse, a Riant in size, can run a mile be far above that amount. So far the stewards are will have only themselves to blame of George Wilkes, 2.122, her sire for« Ballot has be»n a stiff h.rn considered a "mud" but they oppos.-d to the moving they the:. given horse, genfrillyIll 1..W on inp IUlL. H.IH1 I1UW null lie imr* have gathered In about $200,000, and with start are now for their of their own interests. a son ' as as lils feather him to they in the minority and neglect Lynwood \V., of Guybring w»*ig a: Saratoga well Peter Pan. impost got the front to to know his business over timber there is some of the rich that are to have * *1 in tin of the crowd. prlz'-s yet been outvoted. Wlllces, l.M-t to high wheels. H.r but a> ir old«r opponents Saratoga's surprise no telling just how good he will prove to come his total will surely reach 000. But it Is not * * ii an- horses Peter Pan has The Duryea stable also landed the anticipated that any change dam, Maud is gr»- ra already $5,000 be. Phantom's death leaves Good and This Is a phenomenal sum for one stable will be made this at Washington horses have for the past Fowler, 2.21%, by Allien, » Test with year, least, not at t»*-aten t r. K» n« champions may succeed handicap Dreamer on the same the of the Hitchcock to gather In one season of the 2.1t51>4, by Electioneer. Anion b dam was As much as 15 to 1 was Plenty mainstay racing. metropolitan tracks, as that would be week been scattered over the four points ag.i!n In s- it of the heavy weights day. laid against but will be backed to as Dreamer, who ran the Thistledale .lumpers, regarded rather too violent a proce of the W. E. Miller, with Kushan, the famous Columbine by A. VV. Richmond, them. assigned mile In the rapid e%-en him. the compass. time of 1.381-5. Fontainbleu, who defeat by conservatives of the turf gov-dingnnil J C. Mott. with Kara Avis, have been he a son of Imported Bonnie Sent land. however, President Fitzgerald of the association has erning The was ' Belmont's Crack Two-Year-Old. was a strong pecond. would nrnhnblv hnvi> MAY ADOPT WALK-UP body. change not agreed Girl's second dam »a< a of been continuing his good work in the upon without a stiff but the recent doing their turns at Leonardtown; Lee S. daughterSonoma \ »<-- 1-. .1 r _,r>00 fashion will tvants to see Just activity charge the barrier, and he officialw 11 local Springer Angeles, non-professional rs of a and did his work impressive now be backed in (the stewards' stand, as it keeps the Jockeys system of starting will prevail on the be held responsible for the successful Cannon has been resting up the great who is said to drive her with the three-quart- mile, any company. This son of the fast skill of a Star Shoot was ( n their bounds and conduces to truer run tracks next year, or at least that aeasternrule of this very of gelding. Royal Prize, and pa i;ig In g-ame, sturdy fashion. detained rully minutes at important departmentworking at Point Breeze, near vciciau. iici liv.i- ilL 1-^1 m»i i inn >'J,iy twenty the post ,races. C. C. P. will be adopted the starter to racing. mare Miss Gleam, While Fair Piny was straight at the end with the others, while Bolando ran permitting Later on the pair will take was her tlilri4 1 ,1 ] the Belmont colt and hav<- set r..- « ivi> thiim.vV.lfi, u and Sonoma beginning by like a "house and lot" on his back, 27 .It looks as if the In good order. It Is understood that the of several thousand dollars to thoroughly 11.55 iuilf;"iuui\cu*ivi rv*iinig 2.00'i, Girl's feat at to get him to the the oolt NEW YOIiK. July test In the the black in which she trott d three Ill-judged hustling Mountain's Just romped away from his record ever stewards of the Jockey C ub have had the courts the speed law of that Sister Ada, In the 2.1M trot, -maro I.lbertyville,winning fr«'iit. Such handling would have beaten in the race. companyKeene horses will eclipse any state, which rural officials to suit of Krom winning her race heats in 2.0)!%. 2.08 ami 2.07, are the rHmo -r«*n a Interpret daughter Krem diuuic. auhv <> whf»n tho matter under discussion and that nlno out of ten youngsters, for Fair Play On.- of the best "green" Jumpers In the 1nuiu'e iui uno the themselves, always to the disadvantage of in straight hoats in a Held of six. ever trotted by a mare and the fastestfastest was on "tip toes the entire distance, and country graduated when J. W. Colt's b'g candidates that carried the white arwl blue men In the organization haveprogressive!n2 the motorist. for Gen. Smith, owner of Sister HappilyAda, ever trotted by u green mare.
track at all that day, but to get the or 8 o'clock In the morning at Consldine's to him, the colored lad Spider And»rson, race horse. By Luke Blackburn, out of won him out several times over In tha down on a combination bet forthousandthe glass house on 42d street In New York, but and sinking his teeth In the boy's leg lifted the stars of his sale. Tallapoosa, by Great Tom. he was a colt If you ever do meet Burke don't of TALES OF THE five. If he could. He went to George happen him out of the saddle and shook him as When the day of the sale arrived among good size, weighing close to h."/' pounds, TURF the Hoffman to about the horse and Gen. Jackson set him as one Wheclock, the bookmaker, at whisper anything a terrier would a rat. buyers from all parts of the country that down of and submitted his list to him. For if you do make that breakTammany.Anderson was Samuel value of the stake and his bets In tho House, to finally got loose and was taken came to Belle Meade Bryant George couldn't see several horses among you're going bend your hearing to the clubhouse, where a surgeon of Louisville. Among the Belle Meade auction pools. of their purses, and to some Hibernian conversation h -ad This heroic beginning of a great career * r!er who an the five to get any part apparatus the boy's leg and dressed the woundexamined "Uncle Bob." the negro retainers played right-horse eombina.- so he laid Burke's list. He wrote a that'll make you sit up, but that won't do caused were fast for Proctor Knott was followed by subse- in the Handbooks. lion for one bone of Ills life for against heart by Juggler's savage fangs. Then groom, and "Sam" Bryant Betting every day ticket calling for $20,0.000 on the thine ho thinks looks rleht. went on gust, with over (26,000 to his credit In combination. at parlay price, figured and won the race, amid ttie So resolved to go $2,000 or $2,500 per o<»nt of them. Well, the end of nine years , an and so wrote but who In the old days used to play 'em Bryant stakes and purses. one of his ibout even-money thing, of applause from the excited thunderson the colt when he was put up for sale, A little while ago I ir.et In Chicago a eight-horse combination tlcketB ]lilm In the ticket. around the old St. Eouis alleys on the James McCormlck's horse The first Futurity stake, estimated valus went All ran parlaying basis a once stackod himself Autocrat,spectators.and higher. He was satisfied that was confirmed bettor. I had known h'm through. ei«ht where they Burke didn't go to the track, but hung to race, fourbits Prince In a race on the perhaps $50,000, the all-absorbing topic of parlay were played on the a by Charley, the would bid on the youngster, ticket. The combination ,iround a ticker In Island City till up against slow-music, very E-flat Dwyers tn the turf world and no eel:discussionor In the halcyon days of the Chicago tracks. £>*) to Long he was heights of Guttenberg, Jumpedwindsweptover for his form was general property. paid $1.It really figured more than |ihree of the horses on hla list had copped, ticket. This, too, after combinationa In that crossed paddock filly engaged had better credentials than .At that period o? It he would drive his that by ahout 10,000 but that's and was there with at least big dog the homestretch And as his fine Individuality was also In Proctor Knott. So the per cent, rhen he couldn't stand It any longer, and going good, his path and won like a cross-country Kentuckians rallied f.'t,0Longfellow-Bassett z'lng letter carrier got gate was In a of them all happened to the great colt and at little bite to eat, was In a poolroom when his |that the fourth horse on his list had Ellison playing them poolroom Proctor ring. race at Long Branch sixteen years before, day, If, night, his ticket went It In for a that summer, Knott at Nashville, Tenn., In 1S.S8, his when 800 at through. wound up with j with the first money. Helena, llont., spell when he was a He But fortune favored Bryant beyond westerners arriving the track with a f. w friends along, would cost him Sarah anl connectedand Helena never were two-year-old. got hung in a late down the Black, Sarah, running at one of frkimA In addition that two Cit the poolrooms plkerisli on the track fence which he tried to expectations. The yearling sales of that special broke fence and anything l<--a than $50. he'd tell the garcon the Detroit tracks, won easily. Fine for the dumps. One morning there were several Jump at Belle Meade were held In a big marched In rather than get in line to |great contenders In Tammany's race, r\n i r t* /m i o rn/iln» r<1o t fl ln<\1/nd In his ante and was cut and day ? that after his of xjii v ai iuu.i i living uaiuo tituw *v/\jnv.u post gallop, the tickets! But us their leader ni>-t to go with the chanse. He wouM postman, years waiting! one to wind up the ticket, had been bruised before he was released from his tent pitched In a meadow just beyond purchase * was him to the liard pretty easy and gluey to Charles. Three the sales Manager John Chamoerlln on their to 1 fllnky and mean and plkerish If he Everybody staking scratched, leaving the thing practically went on and won barns. To get from the barns to way squeeze on the and his was of them were to run at Sheepehead Bay voluntary "straddle," yet rustic tne siana and settled the gate admission ' big mitt, map i walkover for It was tlie had to cross a 1' anyt !r-,K smaller than $500 to a race. a Tammany. pretty Kinnikinnic and the ring youngsters In a like harvest moon. j time for the race, and that day.Thomas Cat, over a little rivulet that ran through lump the Inclde it amicably r:. l ' r were of nigh post Tammany at When that great race horse, Luke bridge r.lm, the Ekl>'9 hyaline Then the key in the poolroom began to the of odds were holding Tammany mighty Ornament.and Louisville May the farm. Opposed to Proctor Knott In the first click real layers that tremendously fast mare, by Bonnie Scotland-Nevada, Blackburn,broke was the flower of trie.sluc'-nce iitid the world swam in rose busily, and presently the operator at 1 to 60, which, of course, meant Just Hempstead, down In the Island of lf-.SK his colts and fillies Futurity the w.is to contest the Louisville Oaks with a Coney Cup Most of the forty-odd east and the » f !' q ;it(- a long time announced that the Sarah Black purse had out In the betting. the and sedately. wrtt. Haggina. Iyorlilards,two-yearolds, been held up. and all bets fast crowd of her sex. owners, Dwyers, kept him lor another wunt over the bridge quietly Belmonts. Scotts, Baldwins, Cassatts and T) n hi* .ch when he declared off, As he swung Into the betting ring, Burke as soon as they felt t! nudged along the Detroit track officials suspectedbecause and Frank Iloskins, the proprietor of the But several of them, other millionaires all having youngsters C"'i:r!:i't v. t a break.as It nudges along came upon George Wheelock, of over the planks under their feet, began to cut these B. that Sarah Black was a ringer. She was a not unnaturally, was looking poolroom Helena, glanced bigstore from their Among J. Biggin's engaged. f ir ev-r; !»..1y.and the old game began to ringer, a»= a matter of fact, and Ed Wheelook,Ellison's little list. up and try to get away bred at Banciio del Paso farm. wan Farley, chagrined. he said to EUL-son. One of these fractious ones was the Salvator, t !:: v« y fast. AVhen they closed the her owner, was ruled off the turf for life, Eddie," said Wheelock, espying Burke, "I'll lay you 30 to 1," attendants.he looked on as the one Proctor Knott had < ay. tr:t.-ks he took to the and came near to "How much d'ye want of it?" Tallapoosa colt. \> n..i a lunge forward to beat. Prince poolrooms. going to state prison for "I'll slip you J20.000 for that ticket I gave from the two in charge By England's speed marvel. "When thej put the ,«ktds under the Chicago running that And so the Sarah "Guess I'll bet about two thousand men broke away boys Charlie, out of the stout American-bred ringer. you this morning. Here's the money," and and to a declivity Just beyond i ik- fell for the hanilbo.k prime. Black thing bust<-d that round-suouldered he to count out bills. on It," said Ellison coming slight mare Salina. by Lexington, Salvator began $1,000 wasn't a man to show the bridge stumbled and fell head over Which ought to be about sufficiency. old postman's beautiful parlay, and he "Run ay-way and roll your new hoop, Hoskins surprise the bluest blood of the hemispheres,combined W -n J u full for the handbook game, slouched out of the room, more Burke. "That's the at anything, and It didn't take him five heels. and from foalhood the handsome chestnut well " stooped Seorgie," replied grand apr-nndu tr» «r»rfltc*h Flllisnn KLs $t>0.000 to the Blackburn colt than ever, and resumed humping his letter- jprice you're offering me against Tammany, When finally caught colt was the idol of his breeder, J. Ilaggiu, A .v:iow. when I m»t him In Chl^anro the beat. ticket." was found to have bruised one of his and his son. Ben All Haggln. delivering Did he stop playing a 1 to GO shot, Isn't it? Wouldn't that be $2/ioo" not show r,r) r day.not having clapped an eye on lays then, once and forever? Not any!parjI cunnin' for you!" Thomas Cat, Klnnlklnnlc and the knees in his fall. While he did The morning of the day the Futurity w is ::n a sireicn 01 j ;a.rs.ne 1UUK.'a met Ornament all danced by on the lame to any extent, the youngster plainly run bam went and down the * up with him In New York not long "Well, I'm offering to put something In wonderful So when Bryant up lik-- a tramp. ago. and he ehowed me a little said In beautiful rotation, and then blackboard showed the effects of his tumble. grimy list your hand.a big piece, too," even the him up "\\ '!. an- you fretting a l«if nt the o'd of five horses to run that day at the "and Tammany Isn't In yet, is he?" happened that gave something put up for sale the Dwyers passed thlr.ir?' I asked him In that arch tone of Bay, Wheelock. Hosklns a ehock. Most of and Bryant, after a couple of bids, gxn him arid, pathetically enough, he told me that "In his stall, cooled out and munching Imperturbableof l r. zin'-3«. were each and one the real contenders were scratched out for the bagatelle of $4ii0. they every pipeskys, and had the colt was all right I It* k .z< <1 nt mr- padly. that l.e had an ace on 'em all to and the Louisville Oaks because rain marts: In a few weeks cop, Via * 0/^.1r a Pi. 1 Af m 11A Hnlv t WO WkTA some rattling "St- f. it frivolling," paid h°, "and s'ip that If the ticket went through.well. It again and showed Bryant n- two l> - I :n a and The that fall. Then that worthy named th»-re with yen fi>r t}, was just etealln' a hundred bucks, that's left in It, May Hempstead Rush, trials e.r - '* - ! coffff nrtund like a dream all! and, naturally enough. May Hempstead's him after Kentucky's well-known of A: -j to xnt- just now. I'erduce."' price ramn in at 1 to 8.which .was what Proctor Knott, and entered himexecutive,for made Iioskins look chagrined for a minute all the two and three-year-old stakes In Washington has always been one of those been by towns. not or so. Hoskins walked over to where sight. He had already engaged parlaying Hundreds. If room. Meade stock farm in the new of combination bets were made here was standing in the Killson the Belle thousands. "Selling, Charlie?" he asked Ellison. stake at Coney Island, the $r>0.f thdm "I'h-huh," replied Ellison, nonchalantly. for two-year-olds, "I'll sell the ticket for when he purchased the are still mad. every day. But you never you $61,000." that obligation hear about the great bulk of pHrlay bets, "Nice mare, then, this May Hempstead, jvunxster. because the colossal of them eh?" said Hoskins. Proctor ICnott's first race in public was majority lose, "Ttullv " siiid Kllison. "She's home now." the colt to be as a matter of course, and losing tickets a sensational affair, showing don't ev.ike enthusiasm Hoskins walked away, and just then both tough and sturdy, one that could rise any anywhere. the b to call out the race. downs as falls, Hut hear a lot about It when one of operator gan superior to such ups and you The Hush in the lead. The Rush at the "Caused the Old Guard to Grow other usages that the combination tickets, by some wondrous hard knocks and rough quarter by Ave lenafelis. The Rush at the Reminiscent." W0-.1I taKe llie PIUCK nui UI muoi iimnc miracle. gt ts by. half ten The Rush at the to I hear Jimmie one over by lengtns. horses le: alone a two-year-qjd yet "Hey. put three-quarters by fifteen lengths. The Rush year before finally deciding that he would hip education In active racing. that paid 54 to 1," says the man yestlridy In the stretch fifteen The Rush not train Then told the horse Meaile stake's at Westreceive on rear of the car who's by lengths. again. they It was tlie Belle the platform standing eee-easy, fifteen to Gen. W. II. Jackson his breeder, and that marked the a of horse in his Inside wins, by lengths! Side Park, Nashville, got package dope Not only had the great May Hempstead Blackburn was sent to beautiful Belle of Proctor Knott's turf debut. The pocket. "Pooty soft for Jimmie, hey? the his birth the andoccasion Wonder who been unable to untrack herself in Meade, p;ace. colt was made favorite for race, helped him pick 'em? He dep going, but she's been unable to even Each year the L,uke Blackburn yearlings while tlf auction pools were being sola don't know a horse from u bucket o' in the so to she were af.er at the Belle was sent out on the to sprawl mud. speak, and eagerly rough: Bryant's youngster Fifty-four one, hey? H'm, kalciinine.poor, was beaten from the first jump. Meade sales, for Gen. Jacnson gave the tr ick for his ante-post gallop. yes?" The blow havo to a certain horse him with some the chestnut And the it all around. m may healed, every chanc?, matlnj Hidden by a stable boy, big : that's way gets pvti-nt Hilt Rt 111 pvi>n u'hn knnw of his best ma-es. Blackburn's former crime down the homestretch at a ripping all talk about the r; Th-y Ellison quite well never venture to become owners, the Dwyers, were libelal purchasers pace, tut just passing the auction booth and thus the m winning parlays, once-ln-a-gru« M*. do is to take three or four or five crack of the running turf come under the custom the younfc-itTs were turned out But he did not quite clear the rails, but mutts, see. best in training, un'stan', head of "sporting life." But generalfivAnr /lov rain nr china fni pvptpIsa In "sfaddled" them, struggling and kicking "Added to His Owner's Bank Roll." I p i 1 ui' 1 and wht> he was inhalir g and play 'em as fur back as you can, see. bets don't. They fall under combinationthe fifty acre paddx-ks, the colts In one in a manner disheartening to his owner f "i bound to un'stan'? another. would t t: I.. Isn 1'«>t or two and you're connect, head of "bugology." double-columnand the fillies in They paddorkand every one else. There lie hung for entire of the Futurity "chute" v H'»w that Sure: Anfi then all pore over the past race other and down In length p.. ^<»t wa> for o-'.e.cjut'ST;i they each up impromptu precious minutes that seemed like hours cut all stones and pelibles r>n the tra. k. < '"Mi *ri hi t and to Ecrlhble of klng" bets handbooks." Performance dope begin trials speed. to Ills owner, until willing hands rushed and as the other trainers saw U. i s i d "Th«* old '.1 !r little lists, ar.d the handbook runners More than once at Belle Meade was It my "Stonrpi vT!tally. parlay gag. across the track and let down tho lails, at work followed suit until !' i * w » to Bryant tliey .-i>; K \v t. iy I us« «1 to My? \V» leg-weary carrying the ein-buck Proctor Knott. and pleasure witness these rr Injclng thf» hi r nErel intr r.olt. -l« t 1 ...... 1, Plucky privilege »ia.-i ui tiiun; < ai u i Willi «io a ii .i hi a combination between I «1 :uys«-!f Into a pitcher of beer. niii.nation is to their principals. Every yearlings' gallops, As he walked away limping a bit. table. i \\ I Mni.-hed It at i r! on- oi ti.ose uckcis gcramuies a wild west show and a series of races over u.»llard lapping up I pariay tor Knott wars plainly seen to have bruised In the nfternoon 30.000 fierrons r;iin"s :i.l i! - owr to the the handbook C. C. Pettus. the turf, the youngsters !f and founi that 1 d t'<\:^h cashing point By grassy coming of his thighsProcj : and cui the Inside one of the tln>h'« In An.- 111 ir-'.s If Into a t k s-< to the under the head of racers, each slightly greatest I bum. That's a'.. !t that everybody within Grandpa's accident at Brighton Boach "guideless" 'vhich were bleeding In several turf eolts 1 >r 1 !n a : on his or her and logs history between three N > i r. tak»- Tiit* at and buy me and confines of the city is put hep when In the before to racing courage alone, entirely and the auction selling was at once Tennessee. California and Missouri. TVs t iri. 11 -«I drinks. 1 desi.e to \ !t. and the business rolls ' paddock just going free and unrestarlned. places, the parlay just Perduce." until it was settled whether considered a .-is to f it par ay." an ! way fur a time after such a the post for a steeplechase he was knocked XKiine uic guiiuiJiiih \>a? ri'KUll eacil suspended last, plebeian, breeding, things." lung colt would be scratched or not. alongside of his bluer-blood'd oh on- n's, ; a ! >t?!ft t al i arlay biisin*-s~. occurrence occurs. As a matter Burko. "Not down by an automobile did not help the yearling would be led alone to the big his colt hack to t t".; the carrots." airily replied in. barn door, out on a As Bryant whs leading would have won the raee but for h'.s N vv it might just so happen.though it handbook makers have been You ratlgue me. v> nai s going 10 horse's chances any In his race. While the opening spacious Giilock of the lilood weakness from K v ' ;.a' rn ki.'-wi. to s.-t in hey? and as the door would slide his stall. Secretary reducing. somebody ght bo motion palpably phony him?" crack two-year-old Sturgowan, who bolted paddock, flftyacre which was giving the Proctor Knott and Jockey's - favored i w .. d.n-r :: s' ulcs at:' ut stop open the would be "shooed" out Horse Association, Uetting r/t exactly combination tickets blgv«for I dunno." mused Wheelock, "but youngster on the run. called to * "Well, the came 4 while It was 10 to 1 v. »t t Is A 11 sak- of ti c Into the fence at the starting point by the attendants. Nine out of ten meeting, up at to 1 each, Salvator p irla;. parlayappre;h«-t, corralling coin of the parlay In when the red board s down, every course you will scratch your acvifncit t(i£. \llc«:i>iiri-hri-<1 fulll»V : .> m ; ba more n «k« r.s the they're only out several of the rails of the would bolt out of the door Bryant, "Of y k than on** latter become a bit aren't You've been playing the next day, knocked yearlings But Bryant, who "was Jim 1 >: t" ut o«»rnbin:it ".««n thk»ts things toppled over similar accidents in past years, youngsters were turned loose, and then the This splinters by Turner. 1'roc*tor Knott liy Barnes ; :s that went wrong, I'h-huh. D'ye want $20,000 for that reminiscent Secretary. tli" ridden -t s! «>f tii" x -k s to run Eddie Burke, the big-store you? where the mishap sometimes proved a band would voluntarily herd In one end of all." and Salvator by Isaac Murphy, great bookmaker, had bit of scribbling I passed you this drew out a f"..t you. You int.-mi tt» hiim h cori one of tl-.r dlsn.alest of xperienoes with a "hunch" and the victims went right ahead the spacious padd.uk as If waiting for a Bryant's determination colored Jockey. m m lutme. Some combinati >n h» bet. lie forenoon?" sicrnal. This would turn nn In u "a-^iril laugh, bat It looked very much like After Galen had led from the start he took s«»v a»»-lHrge parlay wasn't any and stand is on the and won as if nothing had J. general two !<» !v bookmaker In "The peanut gum happended. halloo" from several of the farm hands, fate, to start a horse as heavily the outside at the "elbow." where the ill foi only horses be nice a Knit those clays, but b'gstwits other side of the George," replied fine colt Great tempting !t a: t 'in** of t Vmt st the best he could ring, B. Huggin's Tyrant by and the whole band of youngsters would ahead as was Proctor Knott, when "chute" joins the main track, because tils part «%hanj?f. doing around the Burke, walking away. engaged : t « t :n nil for thr«e, four, fiv \ or tiii'-ks. Tom-Moselle In a breakaway at Jerome come charging down the grassy he was cut and bleeding from his could not control him. I'roctor uurKe waiKea oui 10 me ia»u i" expanse Jockey « v»-n \ h-»is s t» run th«* are He was a thousand like a battalion of cavalry, at racing on the track rails. Knott and Salvator were taken the shortest waj they dollars strong one race. saw Park fell head over heels and threw Patsy speed, suspension -h a He it right enough. Tammany with those In the rear with Genera! also took this view of the home over the Inside rails, Proctor 1 Sv.. an e. eh? V»' Anyb ».!y morning, quite number of years ago, a bell cow. his his collar bone. striving might opinion way cantered along out in front like Duffy, Jockey, breaking and main to catch with their for favorite in the UTnott winning hv :i neck from S.ih '.tor. when he fell to glancing over the day's card for about half the and then, and up speedier situation, from selling r. plus, distance, A stable boy was hastily put up, the fellows In front. the thu track under tho >n tioketi has go! to be the seventh son at CSravesend. Five things on the card at the top of the Tammany broke auction pools before he "topped with Galen across venth son for stx generattons back, looked to him as if they might all break stretch, colt, trembling like an aspen leaf, was lead In these yearling raoes through the field Proctor Knott declined In favor, and Judge's stand heater. only half a length! down a . IJ ~ 1 /.«!* 1 4 timber," all in His two that #«««>! mhlfn 1' irs and still roll home. Him to nlav heap. forelegs, cL uig nnuc-iaLru, nuuc-irftgcu vuu wuuiu n;iu rtxtueu to liuru limhuo ni»n u>c Knott won J'itl.TOO as a. i born with a ran!, .m i then he's got had been to some back to the post, where for several minutes Proctor u subjected patching, gave his even His owner, umount ever won >>' a swc!', rbance to be dij^jualifled or have on- of them, that's all.not only play 'em way under him. to he would not Join his horses. But when frequently outstrip fellows, when ing closed, with few takers. the greatest tv.arold, i and, clinch things, he from the rear and several on his colt, of that up to that > «>-. ay«r ko over the rill with the all. but play 'em In combination. For he bled at the same time. never the starter finally got the field away Tyrant starting having ground Bryant, bought pools colt or filly age \ Voii'vr to Tammany Then he would come as much us the stake next season added fur.l.er t»» his got w^igh In early tobankwput felt sur that if lie went to the traek and faced the barrier after that.he was went to the front and was never headed, to to make up. through amounting to fully And the <»v« all roll 1'iut Hryarit r on' of that kind, and then if you bet on the tive one nt a time his nerve in for all time. A of Camembert the delight of some superstitious back- the bunch like a whirlwind, even though he was worth. fame an.l his owner's hank ilon't a lump grout declared that he took tlm , drop couple of lead-pads In the would leave him if two or three of them whose very name one won that race ers who him after hla fall. had to bump his way at times to get an With the mulatto jockey "Pike" Barnes' always afterward :-*? -V. \ »! an forgets supported turf career when ho «* look out to have K it by. and he would be unable to send the ir. which was while at the x roctor Knott, bruises, cuts, "splinters" greatest chance of his 1 Tammany chalked at 1 to 00. Juggler, the maneater, post opening. up. oil tlu iy lian^ you »;n the fence, or something.sonic\ whole bundle along on them parlaywise. You can meet the approachable Eddie in front of the stand at Gravesend a decade The consequence was that all the farm and all. won the rac-: from end to end amid started the colt that wa» "bung On< « I knew. In New York, a car- made his at NiitshvUle. .. letter So Ik- up mind not to go to the Burke any time you want tu along toward ago, seized the jockey of the horse next people marked this youngster as a future great cheering from tiio big crowd. LSryaiU fcuce' /'