Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-07-20
WHOLE NO. 2.247.
bud DOBLE's JOR
The Neat style i'm which IL was
Put UP-A Clean Divide of
$4,000.
Cincinnati Enquirer.
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Cincinnati Enquirer.
A prominent turfman, of this citv
who processes to know whereof he
| speaks, says the Ten Broeck-Mollie
Mccarthy race originated as fol-
lows: Winters, the owner of the
mare, desired to breed her to Ten
Brock, and knowing that Bud
Doble had a palace-car for the espe-
eial transportation of fine horses, he
| asked him how much he would
charge to carry Mollie in it to the
Blue Grass home of the Kentucky
Monarch of the Turf. DobIe thought
a moment and then said: eff YOU
desire to send your mare East, why
not let me have the use of her and /
Will try and makea match race with
her against Ten Brock? There
would be hat full of money in it?''
Winters acquiesced on the under
standing that he, as owner of the
mare, should "stand in" with the
profits of the scheme.
A Accordingly match for SIG, 900
was announced in the California
papers as having been made be- |
tween the owner Of Mollie Mccarthy |
and another gentleman, conditioned |
upon his being able to get Ten |
BrOeck to run against her.
For obvious reasons it would have |
been impolitic for Bud Doble to
have been known in the affair. so a
friend of his, John COnley, of New
Yor K, was taken into the scheme as
his factotum. Conley visited Har-
per at his home near Versailles, and
by paying him $500 secured his
consent to race Ten Broeck against
the mare. He then posted off to
Louisville, and saw Mr.. Louis
Clark, Jr., the President of the
Jockey Club, and rented its course
Of him for the Fourth of july.
wisely calculating on that day a
bigger attendance could be secured
than on any other.
Mr.. Clark, dazzled at the Thought
If the glory that would accrue to
MS track from having such a con-
est as was proposed between Ten
Brock and Mollie Mccarthy take |
place over it, did not stop to de-
nand positive evidence that the
match Was a genuine one or not, but !
believing that it was an honest
for supremacy between the I
oest horse of Kencucky and the {
inest that the Occident had pro- {
luced, willingly leased the track as l
.DoYe detailed, though he sadly
ued his haste arterward. {
Then began the other phases of
he plan. The California papers
eemed with accounts ofthe wonder
1l proves Of the fieet-fOoted mare. {
which were extensively copied i'm t
he Eastern and Western papers, I
nd in due course of time she was t
transported to Kentucky in Doble's /
alace-car the accounts OF her over
and trip being duly published and t
dding fire to the flame Of excite \
1ent about the match.
Just before this time il was dis o
Overed that Ten Brock was not i'm C
he best of moving form, and as he v
7aS entered for the st. Louis meet b
lg, and as defeat there would lessen v
he interest in his contest with Mol
e Mccarthy, his owner, Frank i
larper, was paid an additional d
1000 not to take him to the st. o
.ouis meeting. 81
AS the time for the race drew n
ear the press of the country was Z
as to the condition of f
ne horses, which were represented b
) being fit to run four-mile heats Il
,r a mans life, when in reality G.
either was in proper fettle for a '
lree-mile dash. The result was an C,
of over twenty thousand a
eople and gate receipts of over U
10000, which, we are credibly in p
'rmed, Conley and Bud Doble sat "
p all night in their hotel, after the Il
ice, dividing. cl