New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-06-12
CHAT OF THE RACE TRACA'
HOW A KING MAY HAVE LOST fohi'- W.

RAINBow's CHANCES FOR THE DERBY i ~
OF THE MORRIS FIRM
Mr. McCalmont won only $4,000 on islhshss III
the Derby lie ,nxd. one bet about nlteeh nioh'hs
aco-sjOO against sQo OOO which Is Ius' 'o 10 l. ~"
Derby stakes are worth about Tow. i''", lay
did little better the success VI "o'..''" ~ ''
suburban last year. Ills Winnings WHY '' '"'o' ""u
we ,ihes VIII IT,, much is Mr. DAILY going win OH
Ilmmany this year In the ou'"'""'
Sn.pos betting In this country Is not so dangerous
~ n is IN England and France. because there Is less
,, I, l., aou,tfu II in the United states there has
,.- h,., a booSnaker who laid 50 heavily against
. h,rsa ~ 70 le tempted TO stop him by fair or loul
u,.ans such a thing Is common enough IN England
and M, unknown In France. King Milan, one OF
The nost distinguished plungeis ever known In Europe.
~, ,0D 600 francs a candidate for the Grand Pix
a., Paris and IL became evident as the day for the
900. .upromched that the horse would be the winner,
"a The certain ruin Of the bookmaker that the latter
prhssed him for nearly twice the value of the stakes
md declared ha out OF the race. 1t was the only
wsy 10 save himself. lie supposed to be honest.
Il,. made no effort to have the horse stopped II he
had gone on and tie race the bookinakers losses
would have been over ~ 100000. This Is pretty
story. Many people believe 1t is absolutely true.
perhaps II has been embclshed Foreign bookmakers
DO however. take great chances. and there n3tnng
to prevent . man from buying horse and declaring
1t was the young owner Of the Venture Stable who
bought SALIVA out OF a selling she had won John
A. Morris said 10 the rash youth: young man, you
have my warmest sympathy. That FLY will either
break you. or get you ruled of. She Will break your
watch at daylight. and break you and all your friends
In the afternoon. / am very sorry for you
Il believe you are keeping back YOUR good twoyear-
dds some one remarked 10 ASsemblyman Henhen
Morris. the other day.
No, replied the statesman. are not. 1t isn't
cur policy to keep anything back We are running
the best we have II there are any better In the
stable we have not found it ont
John A. Morris said "Ours are all daylight horses
this wear You ought to come out here some morning
end them work. They can beat any horses IN the
world then. II was betting man I'd be ruined
I couldn't help betting on them when | see them
breaking watches In their trials at daylight. don't
know why It is TINT they are fond of fas, work NJ
DAYLIGHT believe most Of them afraid OF the
crowds In the grand stand In the afternoon. Anna Il.
4, I'm sure And yet she Is very fast. II she'd only
ptn fast as she knows how very few horses could
some one proposed that stmulant Ie adj
10 no. said Mr.. Norris Il never believed in
giving whi-key to horse. don't mind giving some
Mr Morris nsunctively felt in his pockets, to see
II he had With him the usual supply OF hyoscyamus
and brycnia.
Dead heats have become so frequent at Morris Park
that whenever the horses In any race pass the post the
crowd in the betting ring ask Itself. unanimously
what Is 1T Another dead heat'' Even men with
tickets for third place do not now tear them up TIL
the Official board exhibits the numbers. because they
feel that they might get dead heat and divide.
And why should there not BE- dead heats In racing
Some stupid persons contend that dead heat Is an I'M
possibility. What do they know about 1t HOW can
they provo TT What there TO prevent two or three
or four five horses from passing given point
At cx,ctly the same Instant Nothing. There Is no
reason why they should not do IT, Certainly there Is
no law against IT, The man who rails most against
dead heat IL has always been noticed. is the one who
has the short horse. lie who gets 10 TO about
horse that dead heat Is generally satisfied with
a division. He who gets evens ought TO be just rs
dad He might lost his bet by an inch. but he
never thinks Of that. lie only grumbles because ne
receives the half instead Of the whole: lie iorge's
that he might have received nothing. A foolish con
sstency is the hobgoblin OF petty minds. once re-
vas right. There Is no creature more annoying In
NJ, than consistent fool, He may be rus TSc' ,o a.
remains. however. that dead heats not popular.
Ass@mblyman IIcnnsn Morris bases Rainbow
chances Of winning the American Derby on the
following statements: I'VE know he says, "that
he can run each half mile Of the race in ffty-two
seconds That would make the mile In A. am
The mile ana a half In . 30. DO you mean to tell
me that they Will beat that time very much? AS
q matter Of fact. think Rainbow can do even
better than that. think he can run the mile In
iHs and the next half In ifty-two seconds. which
would make the time OF the race 30 ! think
Q:35 will win. II is mistake to suppose that
Rainbow Is overturned undermined. He Is In
the very pink Of condition. No horse could be In
more perfect health. lie looks we'll and eats well.
The trouble with Rainbow Is he has no speed lie
Is only = rater Al OF his races have been con
sistent. lie runs at about the same gait always.
We want to try some Of the three-year-ods against
him 1t two, three or four miles
II was an agreeable surprise for Dr. David Hennen
Morris to see his initials on the programme at Nor
ris Park on Saturday one OF the members OF the
Morris firm. There numerous peasantries at
the expense Of the establishment. all Of which the
MNssrs. Morris themselves enjoyed. They even
suggested humorous illusions to the length OF the
nrm name. some Of the owners and trainers early
noticed the addition Of the letters Cd. H. and
promptly decided thst The "Apliabet stable' would
sornd very WELL Others liked the Initial Stable
better, and there were not few who. I'm view OF
the extraordinary number OF dead heats at Morris
lark, declared that the "D7 and al" were put In
the firm 10 signify dead heats DIR. Morris sug
ges;ed that his own Idea to style the firm
ID. II. Morris. Father & Brother
MY connection with the stable has already
brought luck" he said at the end OF the day. after
the defeat OF Aleppo. Reckon Rainbow, Clysmic and
Ambulance "we didn't win anything, but saved
the firm 800 by refusing to start Melody and Mamma
against Domino In the Great Eclipse. There's
nothing like knowing when you haven't got good
thing
Dr. Morris Is an undergraduate at Harvard. lie
y linking special course In homeopathy. and hopes
to become In years as proficient In the applicatlo
Of hyoscyamus and iryonia bis distinguished
father.
special nights At the theatres are becoming prev
sSent Ar. French had n racing night" ut the
new America Theatre two weeks ago. and many
followers Of the turf laughed at the steepechase in
SThe Prodigal Daughter They were little sur
prsed that there was not dead heat. That. how
ever might have involved a reconstruction Of the
plot. which seems to entire satisfs elton In IT'S
present shape. On next Wednesday night DcNoli