The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1889-04-26
Turf Tips.
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LIrBERr pulled up lame Yesterday
A SMART man from New York put S2OC
ON Syntax yesterday at - 10 /.
WARS the matter with the green and
white sash? They're all right
"TuEr Tories today will contain the
New York SiaTs tips on Washington and
Lexington races.
llEHE's sure tip for YOU. Copper
Jock Ransom's mounts aud play Barnes
open. Ransom couldn't win on Stride
away.
'TuRr Tories" yesterday named Clara
Moore 10 win the fifth race, Macauley
second. They came m Just that way.
Clara Moore paid 10 TO straight.
JoE UuNAS, Of Roch & Co., has n mind
Of his own, and doesn't care much wha,
others do. but he is one In a hundred, but
even hc gets left occasionally as all smart
men do.
It's about time that the iayoritc green
and white sash OF the Corrigan stable
showed in front. Will they do Il ioday?-
APrEAL, Thursday You bet they did.
Unite lsi, Clara Moore LIST. Riley ID.
TnE ArrEAL's tips yesterday were re-
markably successful. Unto was named
for place In the tirst race aud got H. Kee.
ycena was named for winner and came
second. For the third race TnE APPEAL
tipped Webster iiral and Riley second. and
they came In just that way. For the fourth
race TnE ArrEAL named Brown Premier
first and kermcssc second, aud they came
that way. TnE ArrEAL did not tip the
iiith race, because the entries bad not
closed when the paper went 10 press. The
Old Reliable Is still on deck. Now Is the
time 10 subscribe.
THE attendance yesterday demonstrates
that Memphis is destined 10 be the great
racing center Of the South and West. Talk
about your Iouisyillcs and Lcxingions,
there Is moro money bet In q single day on
the Memphis track than throughout the
Lexington meeting. The betting was 80
brisk yesterday that the bookmakers turned
up their noses at anything less than $50
II nm cnterprising man will 20 outside the
fence and open up a one-dollar book. the
colorcd population will turn out On
massc 10 patronizc him. The betting pa.
yilion Is sixteen feet wider than Il was last
year. but oven at that is too small TO nc.
commodate tho public. II tho meeting
continues 10 be as successful as Il has been
the past four days, the betting quarters
will have 10 be widonod 100 feet more.
TnE more you know about horses the
less likely YOU are 10 win. Too much in
formation is fatal. The smartcst men on
the turf never have cent Tho book.
makers are pretty sharp fellows, yet what
asses they make Of themselves some
times. Yesterdays fifth race Is an in.
stance. Clara Moore was In II and started
In the betting at 10 to In spite oifhe fact
that she showed moro speed last year than
any horse In the race. At West Side
Park September "a last, with 90 pounds
up, she won two straight heats In l:l5 aud
l'l5i. The other day, Monday, April -,
Clara Moore, with 10 pounds up, ran
third 10 Litbert, hye-cighihs In l;03. She
led al the way into the stretch and
showed marvellous speed. and yet the
smart pencilers gave rs good as 10 10 ]
against hs yesterday, oil Of which
goes 10 show that a good mcm-
ory and a litlo horse sense
docs not hurt on a race track,
and that the slick schomer who gauges n
horse by the amount Of money placed on
him by horsemen is not ns well equipped
for his business aa he thinks he is. The
average bookmaksr Is parrot. lilo re-
fleets The opinions Of his eOnlrcres. lie
wa,ches all lhe other boards and regulates
his odds accordingly.