The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-10-26
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HANDICAP.
= suaias holda OF the .lons-aeck

- sua1ns holda. or the ''lons-neck'
- ~ bsam tiits, or the last bell rings,
Ee(UrS aro horses TO train aud 10 race.
$500 and wine take second place
Hor me, for me
While short 'sten-three"
r ~ OeqnAnder Or fence to fAc8.
- ~ more ways Of running horse
|t yuur book than pulling his head of
= SlrotshE Some men forget this. IN
- tieorfy that ill racing 10 rotten. ~
~ connected with losing money
Out hers. in addition to its In
= 81 lennes., il has the merit OF being
~ sham. looking pretty on paper
kyery0pe knows everyone else far
~ for business purposes. How on
= ~ ron rack and harry and post =
- X IL losings, when you are fond of
w and live In the same station
lint He says, ION the Monday
4 can't settle just yet." You
~ right, old man." and think
lucky II you pull on nine hundred
. two-thousand rupee debt. Any
I'D look ct it, Indian racing 10 Inn
p nd extensively immoral. Which is
k uosse II man wants your money,
<c6ht 70 ak for it or send around .
don list, instead Of juggling about
y (1ntsy with an Australian larrikin;
nkys with Is much breed q
~; = brace Of chumars In gold-laced
r 111oo or four ekka ponies with hogged
- and switch-t tailed demirep Of q
tollod Arab because she has q kink
4 ~ 6ng. Racing leads TO the shrotf
II than anything else. But II you
~ conscience and no sentiments and
lands, and some knowledge Of pace
- years experience Of horses, and
1 thousand rupees q month. / be-
~ you can occasionally contrive to
luf shooting bills.
ron ever know Shackles-p. ". z.
conrse, loose, mule-like-ears-bar
= bng - . gate-post--tough as
loph wire-and the Queerest brute
~ eler looked through = bridle2 He
Gsno brand. being one Of the ear
~ mob taken into the Bucephalus at
II : head 70 make up freight and sold
- I'd out Of condition at Calcutta for
People who lost money on him
- him "bruDdy:" but IL ever any
o had Harpoon's shoulders and
- Gins temper, Shackles vas that
9nce. He trained himself, ran him.
II and rode himself; and, II his jockey
n1tod him by giving him hints, he shut
q onoe and bucked the boy of. He
octed % dicsation. Two or three of his
man 9d not understand this. and lost
10y y consequence. At last he was
neont by . man who discovered that il .
- vaa 70 Be won, Shackles, and Shack
MY, would WIN IL in his own W0v. so
= his jockey sat still This
- he'd riding boy called
ent-e lad from Perth, West
A1slalia-and he taught Brunt, with q
NSnef's whip. the hardest thing q jock
- learn-to sit still, and to keep on sit
- et1l When Brunt fairly grasped this
S1ns 6hackles devastated the country.
- wight could stop him at his own dis
80; the fame Of Shackles spread from
almR u the south to Chedputter in the
am. There was no horse like Shackles
iong q he was allowed to do his work in
own way. But he was beaten in the
~ ana the story Of his fall Is enough 70
A.ss angels weep.
4 tie lower end Of the Chedputter race
Just before the turn into the
A. ~ snt me track passes close to couple
20 prick moulds enclosing q funnel
reled hollow. The big end Of the funnel
eot SIX feet from the ratings on the of
The astonishing popularity of the
e9erse y that If you stand at one particular
- about half q mile away, inside the
slee. and speak at ordinary pitch, your
49, Just hits the funnel of the brick
lVonos and makes curious whining echo
A man discovered this one
nlnG BY accident while out train
win . friend. He marked the
, % stand and speak from with Z
spae q bricks. and he kept his knowl-
himself. Every popularity of q
"A y worth remembering in Q country
sesee rats play the mischief with the ele-
u. ns-ntter and Stewards build jumps to
-. neif own stables. This man ran q very
- conntry-bred, long. racking high
With the temper of q Fl nd, and the
Sss.s q an airy, wandering seraph-a
sy. sildy stretch. The mare was, as a
~ tribute to Mrs. Reiver, called 1.-The
hegnla Baddun," or for short.
alA Baudun.
g Sssssctles's jockey, Brunt, was Q quiet,
- oenaved boy, but his nerve had been
He began his career by riding
~ races in Melbourne, where a few
4. .us want lynching. and was one of
Ssj eys Who came through the awful
sfsS. IA perhaps you will recollect it,
~: aaribyrnong plate. The walls weru
Sss ramparts--logs Of jarrah spiked
masonry-with wings as strong as
Se buttresses. Once in his stride Z
ss nad 70 jump or fall. He could not
1913 In the Maribyrnong plate twelve
~ we're jammed at the second wall
~ g 1at, leading, fell this side, aud threw
- me Glen. and the ruck came up be-
-. and the space between wing and
.1 one struggling, kicking sham bles.
ockeys were taken out dead, three
49, very badly hurt, and Brunt was
Ess me three. He told the story of the
- fnong plate sometimes, and when
- cnoed how Whalley on Red Hat
- = the mare fell under him: "God
mercy, I'm done fori" and how, next
1919 Slthee There and White 0 Ter had
~ aeu the lie out of poor Whalley. and
- uust hid small hell OF men and
1rszs no one marveled that brunt had
lump-races and Australia to-
~. kegula Baddun's owner knew
+ IVORY BY heart Brunt never varied
q ~ rs telling. He had no education.
-. kies came 10 the Chedputter autumn
Sss,. ene year, and his owner walked about
1S.sg the sportsmen of Chedputter
III! they went to the honorary
- and said: Appoint handicap
sno arrange . race which shall break