Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-07-26

time, because knew that my friend
had had hard time in raising the
money, and If the note would not be
met he would go to prison. Ruin,
however, stared me i'm the face, and l
went over to the saddling paddock. /
asked its name, and they told me 1t
was Force. knew nothing about the
horse. or even its breeding, and cared
nothing for IL. There were fifteen or
sixteen horses in the race, and there
were four or five in on whom the talent
plunged. On the bookm4kers' black
boards saw that Force was quoted at
100 TO ], and | went from the stand to
stand and succeeded i'm getting my en-
tire $1,000 on. Then went to the most
retired part of the grand stand to look
at the race. / tremiled with excite
ment. The race was a mile and half
There was a long delay at the post,
and when the flag fell Force was
almost left, getting Off three lengths
behind his field, and running awk-
wardly. The calm of despair seized
upon me. The first part of the race
was run at clipping pace, and COM
ing past the stand Force was six lengths
behind his field and apparently out of
IL. When the mile had been covered
the horses began to trail out and the
three most fancied candidates parted
company with the field for the final
struggle in the race. All of "A
sudden / noticed my Force coming.
lie was moving so fast that he looked
like black shining streak. My hands
began to shake, big beads of perspira-
tion started Oh my forehead, and film
arose before my eyes. The sight was
too much for me, and / sat down so
that J. could not see the race at all.
Suddenly some one in front of me
asked: What's that little black thing
coming up on the outside? IL run
ming like steam epginep Then
some one shouted, Look ut Forcev and
soon the entire stand shouted, Look |
at Force" and u hoarse roar of wild |
excitement made the stand perfect |
| arose and saw the |
two leaders whirling into the stretch.
lighting hammer and tongs. Force
was four lengths behind them, the rest |
beaten. The boy on force was riding
desperately. His whip seemed to de-
scribe series of circles AZ il came
down with lightning-like rapidity on
.he Hanks of the little black horse.
The animal ran gamely. Inch by inch
he overhauled the leaders, and the
people on the stand grew frantic.
The excitement was so intense felt
my tongue sticking to my palate, and
my stomach felt AS II were sea-slck.
NOW the horses were but three lengths
rom the wlnDing-post, and Force was
y the tail OF the other two horses.
me boy on the black made a heroic
Mort, dug the spurs into his mount,
md from under them the horse shot
nut Ike an arrow and won by head.
awoke, wringing wet with per-
and was so excited that IN
ouid not get to sleep for some timey
'fter that. | went to considerably
rouble to find out who Force VIII
some time sfter that the guide cafffl
nut and ] found out that II was hj1E
'oit ny West Roxbury, out of H&a
Worth, that he was then In ColafaGo.
ma that he won race there thEEay
'iter the night L had dreamed but
nm. You have all seen him siix,-
t's that black horse of I.efeyre'sl Ahat
vas SO fast at Saratoga last yeartnhd
ne year before. He died some vkhks
.go. believe, of some lung trdftle.
VOW; can anybody explain how tEyas
nat could dream of horse, HNDae
name had never seen befor@kknh
distinguish his color, mark andL2eh-
RAJ appearance so clearly that wGlnII
Jaw the horse mt Saratoga, Mok. !
liZed him nj Once pr MR