Morning journal and courier., 1889-01-24

has had work enough. Here's five hundred dollars; go put it for me on -. If m, horse wins I'll get the purse, and that will b. a stand off,"
 Here was euandary for the party of tht first part, who wanted to get 'tlins" from the owner of the favorite as to the invest, ment of his own fifty dollars, which he in tended betting on the race. As he took ths five hundred dollars from his friend and started away to execute the commission in trusted to him he was sorely puzzled as tc his own course. He liked the favorite'i was short of work, and knowing the man as well as he did, was confident that the race would be squarely run as far as his horse was concerned. So, after investing his friends five hundred dollars at three to one against, he boldly took the "buu by the horns" and put on his modest half century at even money.
 Sauntering back to his friend the two took positions in the inner field to see the race. When the flag dipped, the favorite, very quick horse on his pins, jumped away with the track and soon led clear, going like 8 quarter horse. Said the owner, whose five hundred dollar investment was now second "Oh, my horse will come back to them. He can't keep up that lick long. See, the quar. ter was run in twenty five and one-half. , But at the half, in ffty-one and one-half, the favorite, instead of looming back, was widening the distance between him and his field, and the rest of the distance, a mile, was procession, with the fa7orite winning by ten lengths, the horse on which the own CT had invested beating the others just as ea- silly. "Well, we're done for this time, said the owner 10 his friend as the horse finished. ''You may be. but don't count me in," said the latter, showing his ticket, which called for one hundred dollars on the winner.
 Now that owners honesty meant just two thousand dollars to him that afternoon. If after getting on his five hundred dollars at three to one he had sent to the parties who had the horse he was betting on and told them they could win if they would give up the purse, an every day transaction nowa- days, he would have profted to that extent noted. But he preserved his honor, and is to-day, though still on the turf, one of the honored and respected men in the land.
 Another instance of quite recent date, az to how an honest owner met direct attempt at bribery in connection with a race. A heat race was being run at well known course, where all the betting was between two particular horses, both of whom were known to be so fast as to outelass the others in the party. The packers of one of the pair included we'll known plungers, the weight of whose money would make any horse favorite, while the followers of the other were mainly smaller bettors, who, knowing the character of the owner, were sure of getting Ca run for their money"
 The first heat was very close, with the choice of the plungers beaten by 8 neck only Between the heats the owner of the winner was walking the paddock, after su- perintending the cooling off of his animal, when he was approached by we'll known habitue of race tracks, who abruptly said: very badly, do yous I am authorized by = to make any reasonable proposition to you as there is a good deal of money on the other horse" Quick came the answer; s:You have come to the wrong man, MT. -, and keep away from me after this, lest I be tempted to expose you. Tell your friends that they can only get out by backing my horse, for am going to win"
 The second heat showed the plunger's horse go off with the track, but the other, who had won the first heat, took him by the head, and they ran yoked to near the finish, where the champion of honesty appeared to have the heat and race won, and both jockeys eased up. The jockey of the apparently beaten horse, however, was "kidding'' the other and in the last fifty yards he challenged again, and before the other boy could gel fairly under way "shot him right or the post" by the shortest of heads. This settled the race in favor of the rascally would-be bribers, for their horse was noted "stick. er," while the other could run two heats and no more. put tO Inis OAJ tAo uA1cl1AS Auu catspaw of this occasion always gives a wide berth to the owner to whom his disgraeefu mission proved imperative. They meet. but "never speak as they pass by." A few more such honorable racing owners as these noted and racing methods would meet with 8 cor responding increase in popularity.
 The other side of the question is not SC pleasant to contemplate. That there art many dishonest men connected with the turi is just as certain as that the public is begin ming to suspect the fact that they are to bt found not only among the meek and lowly but among those whose positions should place them above such deflements.
 Some years back, in the last racing decade & race was run on one of the best knowI courses in the country. Bookmaking wal then unknown, so this particular case ii not to be included in the sins since charged up to that system. Like the instance cited above, this race was also race heat, and { we'll known plungsr was wagering heavy amounts on one of the contestants belonging to another turfman. The latter's horse wol the first heat, but was beat back so easily fo the second by an animal thought to have n' show that the race was seen to be Gall ove but the shouting" in favor of the outside who had won the second heat Added t. the certainty in favor of the latter WAS tha the favorite who had won the first ant fought all the way for the second was knowl to be poor repeater.
 There were less than thirty minutes be tween heats, and whatever was to be don had to be done very quickly. The plum Yer whose thousands had been put on tn winner of the first heat, but now prospect i've loser of the race, made up his Raint that it was desperate case. Before tn, horses were started for the third heat h. bought outright for fancy price the hors who had won the second heat and stood il his way accordingly. Then he took dow the honest jockey who had ridden the hors without whip or spur, he being "bolter, put up another jockey with both whip an spur, and they started the third heat. was not of long duration. Just as the pal had gone less than half the journey, whe the new purchase looked as if he could "rul over the moon," he suddenly bolted into tn fence, stopped, and before he was got goin again was hopelessly out. The jockey ol his back was not seen to put whip and spu to him, but the moral proof that he did we strong, hence the bolting.
 l After the race the crowd got around th l iudges' stand, and for moment it looked 8 | if the cries of "Fraud!" Declare the rao off" etc., would materialize into an incipien riot, but nothing was done, and the rae stands upon the records from that day l this.
 Another owner, who is so very caution l that he will not even place himself in tn | power of his jockey, was running horse i l 8 race that he did not want to win. He wa ! betting on some other horse that his own an l imal could beat easily, and it was importar | to stop the latter if business was to be done | Calling his jockey to him before the race, said: "Now, son, you know our horse he bad feet. That track is pretty hard an partly soft You take your horse next tt pole where the going is softer. You under
 stand met" The boy, not suspeeting, did 6 | he was told, and round the first turn struc
 a stretch of deep mud fully one hundre | yards in length that anchored his horse 1 effectually that by the time he got goo footing he was out of the race and the jo | was successful.
 The most dangerous racing owner, howey | CT, is he who owns the best horse, puts U
 some frst-class jockey in whom the publ has every confidence, and then, ct the la | moment, backs the second choice. The fir quency with which this sort of thing WI
 successfully done during the racing seaso
 of 1886 is just as certain as that, if pc sisted in, the offenders will be es we
 known publicly as they are privately. IT pitcher that goes too often to the we meets disaster sooner or later.
 LOVE IN A FOG.
 Pulling for she Shore and the Marriaf | Altar.
 From the Philadelphia Record.
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