The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-12-30
SLOW HoRsEs MADE FAST.
Ths Reiuvenating Device OF a Broken
Down Sport.

Down Sport.
From the Neto York Times,
People who read the detailed accounts Of
winter races in the sporting dailies often see
some reference to the fact that "the winner,
who was at 20 to In the betting. had re-
ceived the injection" Or the paragraph
may read in this way:
"Haytienne fly in the first race at Glou-
cester yesterday, was evidently crazed from
having received a hypodermic injection
and at the post she got beyond control and
bolted through the rail, throwing Jockey
Casey, who escaped unhurt, but refused to
mount the FLY again. She was brought to
the judges stand, and Ham, who was sub
stituted. managed her all right. the fllly
running second"
Another instance from a report of a
recent racs at Guttenburg: "Fairpley. the
unworthy brother of Tournament, rs-
ceived the injection before he was sent to
the post for the last race at Gutenberg on
Thursday last. and 10 set him crazy, the
horse being almost unmanageable at the
start, and when 1t came to finish swerv-
ing out and boiling against the outer rail
with such force that he severely injured the
foot Of Jockey Mason
Some years ago there appeared on the
turf as the nomiuator to lot Of stakes both
in this country and Europe, p. B. Ring, a
Missourlan, and a young man who had a
little money and colt by Volturno. The
horse was an utter failure In stake races,
and subsequently, ran at Clifton and Gut
tenberg and other small tracks as Free
Lance. but the writer does not remember Of
his having ever won a race Of any kind.
He was 30 bad horse that Ring "went
broken before be got through with him.
While In the south, q little after his sorry
experience on the turf, Ring heard this
story about an old colored man and his
mule: A physician driving over one of the
whose mule had hAlked, and whose efforts
to make the animal stir had proved use
lesS.
whats the matter, unclep' asked the
doctor.
'Dis yere mule am baked, sab, an
nothin' won't start him. I'd glib dollah to
make um start SO might get um home"
''Pll start him for you for nothing" said
the doctor, who got out of his gig, armed
with hypordemio syringe loaded with NOR
phine. Going alongside the obstinate mule,
he jabbed his needlelike instrument into the
hide of the animal. The brute reared on
his hind legs, gave bray that woke the
echoes for miles around and started down
the road on gRllop such as he had never
shown before. The astonished darby started
after the mule as fast as his legs would carry
uGkus Aou AEAoE buo phJblSlAu
caught up with the darby, who, all cut of
breath, was sitting on the roadside. The
mule was nowhere to be seen.
''Massa,n said the old darby, before the
physician could get chance TO speak, ''how
much was that stuff worth that you stuck
10 my old niulep
about 10 cents. reckon" answered the
amused physician.
Barring his arm the darby went mp along
side the gig aud said: "Jess you put 90
cents wu6 OF dat squirt in yer. Hsah em
de money. got to ketch dat ar muleln
The story set the bankrupt horse owner
TO thinking, and the result OF his thinking fs
the use Of the injection nowadays on the
winter race tracks among the specimens Of
broken-down animals that are trying to win
races there for their owners. Ring is max
ing good thing out Of il, and he has had
so much hard experience that he is proHting
by it. and manages to make a very hand
some income for himself without any risk
1t is more profitable than playing the races
Race goers, al distinguished from the
crowd Of gamblers who go the track for the
sake Of INDUCING their propensity for play,
have wondered often what that sort of
thing meant. Some Of them had q chance
TO hear Of the injection once or twice last
season while the races were being run at
the Brooklyn track. and where it was whis-
pered about in q very mysterious fashion
that q certain horse would win a race be-
cause ''he had got the injection" What
that meant was all mystery to them.
Ii means exactly what the words say in
print Some poor brute OF horse had been
converted into a marked card for the use
Of the gamblers at the tracks by having
injected into his veins, hypodermically. a
mysterious fluid the secret of which is tho
possession Of broken-down sport, who is
known about the tracks as "Dr." Ring.
That fluid does seem to give to certain
horses q temporary renewal OF life, and an
apparent amount of speed that they do not
show when not under the influence Of the
hypodermic injections. The value of the
fluid to give life to horses OF no particular
account was most remarkably shown in the
case of the horse Blackthorn couple Of
seasons ago at Guttenburg. Whenever he
was treated with this injection he was GER
tain to win his race. The odds against him
were always long before he got the treat
ment, however.
Morphine and cocaine are the two drugs
that are popularity supposed TO be the ones
used by Ring In his treatment of the horses
but which one it is, and whether it Is both
no one knows, and Ring is shrewd enough
to keep the secret TO himself. Horse own
ers are afraid TO try experiments, and they
will trust no one but this mysterious CDR. l"
Ring, though other men have assured them
their horses, Ring is very shrewd about
using bis stuff, and will only treat few
horses in the course of a month. and but
one horse in O race can have the benefit Of
his treatment, il 1t Is benefit. So far the
the owners that have bad dealings with him
say that the treatment has left no bad eff
fects with the animals after q race, though
IL sometimes acts to make the horses crazy
and manageable instead OF simply giving
them additional speed.
"Dr." Ring accepts no fee from owners
for treatment with his iDje ction, He de-
mands, however, that the owner whose
horse he treats shall put a bet Of SIS on the
horse TOR his benefit, at the best ODDS to be
had in the ring. The horses treated are
always at a long price. and II the drug
works successfully the doctor makes a very
good thing Of it. II the horse does not win
he suffers no loss except the cost OF the fluid,
and be waits for another chance to get his
pay out q the bookmnkers.
A COMING QuANpARY Teacher (of class in