St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-08-11
WHIPS AND TIPS.
Gossip About Horses, Horsemen
and Their Doings.

and Their DO1n&S.
When that seasoned old campaigner,
Sam Bryant, came East two years ago
and proclaimed openly and loudly that
he was going to win the Junior Cham
pion stakes with Proctor Knott. the
critics laughed at Sans ''delusion."
But Proctor won, and then his cratic
trainer proclaimed from the house tops
OF Gotham that he was going to win the
Futurity, too. The critics smiled again,
but Proctor Knott won again. When
the Bryant and Scoggan combination
was broken, Sam shed silent tear as
Proctor Knott was bid in at high price
by Scoggan, but in his grief he didn't
forget to buy in Come tO-Taw cheap for
himself. and Come-to-Taw has been the
most useful horse of the two since. This
spring Bryant announced that his colt
Uncle Bob would win the American
Derby to certainty. and he did. Sam
Bryant is not the greatest trainer In the
world, but he is evidently something OF
a prophet in the racing line.
A turfman once bet some comrades
$500 that he could borrow 81 900 from
one Isaacs, a Jew money-lender, on his
personal recognizance. The crowd went
together. "Mr Isaacs," said he, ''these
gentlemen have bet me $500 that can
not borrow s., 900 of you. l do not need
the money, but l want you to let me
have it for one day only, and I'll divide
the bet with you" The effect was not
what he looked for. Instead jumping at
the chance of making $3.50, Isaacs look
ed at the turfman, then at the committee
(who were COMPOUNDED at the cool swim
die, for so they termed it), and finally
he buttonholed the borrower and said:
i hot nnt11r q
money of me?" THAT'S what l did"
Them said ISaacS, in whisper, Ego
and hedge"
Jockey Littlefeld has thought out a
great scheme. In all his races on the
Straight at Monmouth he rides as close
as he can to the off-side rail. Freddy's
geometric studies have proved to him
that straight line is the shortest dis
lance between two points, and, while
| the other boys are lacking and filling all
| over the track, he is literally Skinning
| his leg against that off-side rail. 1t is
| laughable to watch some of the less eX-
| perienced boys Oh that straight. They
| head their horses straight for the judges
| stand, and are surprised to arrive there
some time after their fighting competitor
| has passed it in his straight rush down
the off-side of the track.
The agony is at last over concerning
| Ell Rio Rey, says an exchange from the
Pacific coast, and the great colt will
come home to take old Norfolk's place
in the stud at the Winters ranch. We
did not accept the fiat OF the veterlna-
rieS without pang. for we were proud
of that colt out here, and we wanted
him to go to Chicago and add another
to the list of CaliforniaDs who have won
| a. Inv 10 vryiI1
| succeed a great race horse and sire in
Norfolk. but he should prove a good
one himself, for he has the blood, to our
notion, that flows in the veins of the
| family of American race horses.
"Whoever is responsible" says the
turf writer of a great daily, ''fOr the in
| PRODUCTION of Narvice into this section
of the country owes it to the public to
carefully chloroform him and carry him
back to Mexico, where he is said to be-
| long. He is worse than Anderson at
| his sleepiest and Mccarthy at his stu
| pidest. Littlefeld i an Archer beside
him. BE lacks everything Judgment,
nerve, dash, energy, skill. He threw
aWay Tipstaff's chances and rode Fairy
like a plough-boy. He is said to be
| thoroughly honest and reliable. and this
is given as the reason for his getting sc
many good mounts"
1t is generally understood that the
Western Bookmakers' alliance has
grown into a powerful body with g
Strong cash backing. This association
has claimed for years past that it could
and would control in time the Western
racing. 1t now seems probable that the
time has arrived for swords to be drawn
The Western Alliance has sent repre-
sentatives East to secure co-operatior
in the construction of a new course al
Chicago, over which it will have full
control.
Fairy is one of the most ungainly
creatures ever seen Oh race course
She always goes to the post lame. Her
sire, Argyle, is owned by l.. J. Rose,
who bought him from Senator Stanford
last Spring. Bred at Palo Alto, by Mon
day out of an Australian mare, Argyle
never ran in race. but it is said that
he showed a great trial on the home
track before he broke down.
A number of prominent men of Den
yer. California and England have organ
| lied company and will establish