The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1890-09-21
THE WORLD OF SPORT.
News of the Turf and Diamond in Many
Places.

NEW YORK, sept. % special. Luck
on the turf does not apply to racing horses,
10 winning bets. but also 70 buying animals.
There j. perhaps no speculation 10 which
there is so much chance attached a. there
is 10 the purchasing OF yearlings. Many OF
the shrewdest men on the American turf
have paid large sums for thOrOughbreds
chat have never been able 10 earn their oats,
aud there are several poor men who have
bought some despised yearling % sale for
am absurdly low price who have won for
tunes.
Tenny, the crack OF \. -. Pulsifer's sta
Die. was the most despised horse at the
Hon. ". l.. ~cOtts sale in the fall Of 1851.
Colonel scott kept the best OF his yearlings
for himself. and sold what he thought poor
est Of the lot. To-day, next 10 Kingston
and Salvador, Ienny is probably the most
valuable horse on the turf. He has won for
his owner good fortune.
Reclare, when yeariing. cost $40. Mr.
Warnke. one of the switchmen on Oney
Isl nd railroad, had saved up few hu l.
bred dollars and purchased the filly. As a
two-year-old. she was the crack lilly of the
year, and won for the W arnke's nearly SJO,-
900. Her winnings this year are IN the
neighbOrhOOd OF $4,000.
English Lady, the crack lilly Of the scog-
gan Brothers, cost $50 as a yearllng. As "A
twO-year-Od, she won four races. This
wear she has won nearly $1,000 in stakes
and purses, and ScOggan Brothers have
Just sold her for $4,000.
The DIVER Brothers stable probablyh A.
more expensive horses that are no good
than any other stable. Houston about
heads the list. He Is brother 10 the
mighty Hanover. and cost as yearling
$500, and does not appear 10 be worth his
keep.
Proctor Knott. next 10 Tenny, is probably
the most sensational Of the cheap horses.
He cost about $500 as "A yearlng and won
fortune for sam Bryant, his owner.
senator Hearst has been singularly UNI
fortunate in buying yearlings. In addition
TO the $4,000 be paid for King Thomas. he
paid $4,000 for Firew0rk, sister 10 Dew
drop by Ealsetto, Explosion FirewOrk has
not won race yet. Warpath, by King Fox
cost -. 100. Although the Morris stable has
won most Of the richest stakes Of the year.
il is a singular fact that the cheapest horses
have been the biggest winners.
Outside OF the men who OWN racing horses.
the jockeys who ride them, and book
makers, tOuters, and employees Of the tracks,
there are fully l0,0O0 people in New York
city, who are pecuniarily interested
i'm the outcome Of every race that
occurs in the vicinity of the metropolis.
Most OF the people visit the
tracks very frequently, but there are hun
dreds who, perhaps, never see more than
one race in yeaG but whose money goes
into the pOol-ro0ms regularly on every
event. There has not been a season in ten
wears IN which the betters have lost so
much, and IN which the bookmakers have
had such an extraordinary run of good
luck. They have literally shOyeled in the
money Of the public, and at the present out
look most Of the men aud women who fol-
low the races and bet moderately small
sums will have pretty hard work TO pull
through the winter. The money OF
person who habitually plays the
races is sure at last TO reach
the bookmaker's pockets. The bookmakers,
however, are not the most insurmountable
obstacles which prevent the ordinary man
from winning his bets on the race tracks.
There never was "A season before this one
when the Jockeys gave more trouble than
they have within the last six months.