The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-10-20
TO WIN WAS TO lose
What it Cost a Horse Owner
to Retain Two Winners.
L CRlBBAGE NIGHT.
The H0bOken Team Caught the
Honors-Football and
Athletic Notes.

To the victor belongs the spells may
apply to politics but not always to horse
racing. Eugene Leigh has a stable.
Three of his horses won at Gutenberg
yesterday and he was in hard luck be-
cause they did. Two of the events were
selling races. His Ma Belle was entered
to be sold for ST. 1000. The winner was,
under the rules. put up at auction and
the price ran up to $3,005. The owner
bought in his horse. His Rico
won the third selling event and
it cost the owner $l.S05 to
keep her. In the two events the aggrs-
gate price to retain the horses was $3.50
over the entered price. The actual amount
won was $3.50 in each race. sThe betting.
too, was at figures that did not afford
Leigh an opportunity to balance the loss
in that way. Ma Belle opened at l against
3, and was beaten down SO that one had
to put up 8 to win L Rico opened at 9
against 20, and closed at 2 against 5. The
man who bid against Leigh was NJ.
Wolff, better known as Carley B., a book
maker. Leigh also won a selling race with
Allan Bane, but no one bid over the ea-
trance price and he was not a loser on the
event. His horse was second choice, but
the odds went down from 2 on to 8 to 5.
The horsemen at the track applaud
the action Of "Carley B." They claim
that owners are disposed to enter their
horses far below their actual value in sell
ing events. and hus carry a light penalty
and deprive the other nags entered at
their full value OF a chauce OF winning.
1t is said the bookmakers have formed a
combination to force owners to put theIr
horses in near their value or else make
them pay heavily. The object is to give
every horse a chance and insure good
racing.
He'll Gate was a pronounced favorite in
the last race. of six and a half turlongs.
and it was ackuowied en- all sides that he
should win by a block" He was ridden
by Carter, just one remove from d stable
boy, and his work was enough to drive
the hackers OF the colt almost insane. HIS
riding was miserable, as of all the incom-
petent exhibitions of the kind one
sees in q season 1t was almost
the worst. There was nothing
criminal about it, but it was simply bad
from start to finish. The consequence
was Hell Gate only managed to reach
third place, while Jeweler, a IL to 1 shot
at the post, Won a cracking good race
under the whip by a head. Macintosh
was second, and was quite heavily played
for the place.
The opening race of five furlongs was
taken by.Mohommed. 3 to l, while Right
away, the favorite, finished seventh.
Ma Belle. the winner of the second
race, of six and a half urlongs, was a pro-
hibitive choice.
Kirkover, z to 10, was heavily backed in
the third event, of one mile and q six
tenth, and should have won, but his
jockey was young and inexperienced and
was smothered by Martins artistic work,
who pioleted Allan Bane homo a head
the best of it.
Little Fred, in the fourth race, of five
u a half furlengs, was l to 20, and be
won with great ease. This colt is now in
grand form and looking better than ever
before.
Rico was 2 to 5, the choice, but Martin
had to ride for deaf life to win, the fllly
Bess McDuf making him do the hustling
act.
There are sixty-one entries on the card
today. Five are selling EVENT..