The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-05-26

in one stable of particularly vicious colts he
was not discharged even after he had shot at
the head trainer for cracking whip at his
legs for some act of disobedience. Some
time in 1873 he received his first mount for
regular stake race, and after that he pros
pereG rapidly. Among his best known early
mounts were General Harden, Big Medicine,
Toronto, Lady of the Lake, and other more
or less famous winners of their day. 1t was
the poisoning of the last named animal that
first caused a ban to be put on Redmond,
and after this turf scandals piled up on his
name at a rapid rate. He lost employment
with the crack stables and became affiliated
with a tough crowd of touts and sure-thing
men, who stood at nothing to destroy to as
great an extent as possible the glorious I'M
certainty of racing.
About his last appearance in the pigskin
was on the New Orleans course, in 1888, when
he was put up on the old campaigner known
as Boston on the Table" Boston was
horse owned by a syndicate of gamblers who
toured the tracks of the country, dependent
more on their winnings at cards, however,
than legitimate turf earnings. They ran
against some pretty good poker players in
New Orleans and for a long time could only
sit in the game with barely sufficient to ante
in front of them. When one of them would
capture good hand he would bet Boston.
The game bObbed up and down this way for
some time the gamblers, whenever their ia
BILE stakes were diversified, saying, "Well. Bos-
toms on the table" thus raising their oppo-
nents to the value of the horse. Finally the
remark was such byword that the horse
came to be known as Boston on the Table"
Boston nearly ended Redmond's existence on
this occasion by running away, throwing him
of, and breaking his collar bone and three
ribs Since then he has been either in the
employ of the bookmakers or against them
If he furnishes them information they make
their odds according to their purport, and if
he takes til cir odds they generally shiver.
One of his streaks of luck, or judgment, or
connIvance, as they have been variouslv
termed, was the winning of 10000 in one day
NJ jerome Park, his original capital being a
SO bill. There were seven races on the card,
and he backed everyone of the unexpected
winners at long odds. 1t does not seem to
make much difference where he drops in, he
seem constantly a winner, as his brief exper-
fence on this coast will show. He arrived in
Sacramento on the morning of the first day
of the Capital Turf Clubs late meeting, and
did not get to the track until the first race
was ever. After that he bet on every race.
and never failed to call the winner, except In
one Instance. An Alta reporter, who made
Toms acquaintance, found him quiet and
agreeable in manner, and a pleasant con-
versaiOnalist, although not inclined TO speak
OF himself. He hardly knows when he was
ever genuine boy; he never played a game
of marbles or ball in his life, nor few kite,
and t1e nearest action to the sport of youth
that he can remember is the robbing of a
melon patch in New Jersey. He has been
ruled off dozen race courses, but on nearly
every one of them he has bought pools in the
downtown auctions of the night before and
casheC them on the succeeding evening.
Whether one-third of the wickedness charged
against Tom by the Eastern turf press is true
or not can not be positively known out here,
but if q 1.-THE of it belonged to him he should
have teen hanged long ago.