The morning call., 1893-06-19

divide his Eastern string and send Denni-
son the second-class lot.
The following story is told of a colored
boy Dennison had riding for him at odd
times at ST. Louis:
Jockey Madison, who has been riding
IN pretty good form lately. is SO black that
he would cast shadow on monk" Over
toms face, and Monk" is by no means
light colored. Madison. however. is igno-
rant, and ID that respect he greatly re-
sembles Hamilton, who rode C. H. Todd
the year that he carried off the big Chicago
stake event. Madison can never rememb Der
the name of the horse he has been engaged
to ride, and for that reason they have con-
siderable sport with him in the scaleroom.
The other day he came to weigh in, and,
as usual, had forgotten what he was to
ride.
"Well. Nathan. what do you ride ?''
asked Clerk of the Scales Martin.
'Pse done forgot, sah," answered the
colored lad.
swell, what race is it?"
I'm de second race, sah."
Martin glanced over the entries and then
asked: Don't you remember what the
name sounded like?"
Say, mistah," said the little coon. sis
dey horse in dere called Telephone?"
mo, Nathan"
"Well. sab. what is 1t dat goes froo dem
wires dats strung on pO!es?"
"Oh, electricity. Jump right on the
scales, Nathan. That's McDonough's colt
and they, tell me that he's good enough to
win. ton."
Oats de hoss, sab. 'Lectricity. Dom
forget dat no mo-" and the little coon
weighed in and rode a good race, too,
though he had to be content with second
place at the finish.
Charles Reed. the nosed owner OF St.
Blaise, who is going to start breeding
farm in this State. has an idea about train
ing horses that local trainers would do well
to follow. Mr.. Reed requires the horses to
be exercised a little every day when the
weather is tit, and he insists that they shall
travel different route every time they are
taken out. He has notion. which is well
founded, that horses get tired OF running
around track the same way every day,
seeing the same objects every time the
are exercised. His idea is to furnish them
with not only exercise, but variety of
scenery, and therefore favorS great deal
of work on public roads and country
lanes.
Probably the greatest combination horse
now upon the turf is the chestnut eelding,
Charley NJ, that has a running record for
a half mile of 81 seconds. a trotting record
OF 2:24A, and pacing record of 2:22%.
he Is branded brhnchO, and nothing is
known of his breeding. He is believed to
be about 19 years old, but is as fast as at
any time in his life, and when he started
in the free for-all at the first meeting this
season in Texas, he showed the way to the
wire the first heat in 2:23. The per-
formance was over half-mile track, and
is the best on record in that State.
They say Jockeys life at Hawthorne,
Chicago, is a hard one. Some days he Is
fined. other days he is publicly whipped
and struck by the starter, and other days
they narrowly escape being killed by
horses falling in the races.
Jockey Jordan, crack lightweight, has
signed with the Bedford stable, the owner
of the sensational two-year-old filly Nav
Thompson. Jordan can ride, though, and
his case is remarkable one, owing to the
fact that he paid $1,000 fine assessed by
starter Mclaughlin for some offense.
Jordan, who is a mere youngster, won a
few thousand on SaXaphone at ST. Louis a
few days ago, and Immediately paid the
enormous fine.
The club would not let him ride at the
meeting, though, although it accepted his
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