Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-11-01
CHAPTER XXIII.
"ExCEbLENT DAsIhsx TURN upoS TN
VULTUUE

vULTUREn
If fortune in general way Is ca
PRECIOUS and uncertain divinity, as,
suredly that particular goddess who
presides over the affairs of racing men
is most given to tricks and starts, to
sudden frowns and unexpected smiles.
Gilbert Sinclair new stables, had up
to the beginning of the present year,
brought MIN nothing but i'll luck. So
unvarying had been his ill-lu.k that
his trainer and grooms gave full scope
to their superstition, and opined that
the stables were unlucky, and that no
good would ever come out Of them.
THE had been murder committed,
may be, somewhere about, suggested
one man, or the ground had been
wrongfully come by; VINO could tell"
With the Craven meeting, however,
the tide turned, and the Sinclair
stables scored three pdlpable hits. But
this was not all Mr.. Sinclair had
bought colt at York two years be-
fore with all his faults and all his en-
agement5-the engagements being
particularly heavy. and the faults in
Guiding one which the veterinary au-
tn rites believed might be fatal to the
animals career as a racer. The colt
was,of renowned lineage one both sides,
and had gen ealogy that went back to
his grandsire and bristled with famous
names-a colt in whose future some
magnate of the turf would doubtless
have specialized two or three thousand,
but for that unlucky splinter.
Gilbert Sinclair bought the colt for
two hundred and fifty, under the adj
vice of his trainer, u shrewd York
shire man, who loved bargain better
than the best purchase made in the
regular way.
He's got the Touchstone and the
Specter blood in him." said Mr. Jack
son, the trainer. He bound to come
out flyer, if we can cure that off fore
leg"
But suppose we don't, Jackson,
said Gilbert, doubtfully. 1.-TWO hun
bred and tifty's lot Of money for a
lame horse, and his engagements will
come to good bit more"
you may as we'll lose your money
on him as on anything else, mayu't
you?" argued of his employers iud y
ment, and did not Mr.. Jackson who
had no exalted opinion trouble him
self to pretend greater respect than
he felt. The best OF me is but small
in the eyes of his trainer. "Yol let
me have that there colt to nuss and
say no more about it, 1t II be fad for
me. | ought to have my fancy some
times. You have yours, and fat lot
comes of it.
Thus urged Gilbert bought the colt,
and John jackson took him under his
wing, and made him his pet and dar
ling, shutting him up in impenetrab Q
loose boxes, and eXer Using him secret
ly in the morning gray in sequestered
paddocks far from the eyes of touts.
Mr.. JACKSON had children children
who climbed on his knees and called
him father in childhood's lisping sylla-
bles, but there was pride in John
Jackson's eye and a tenderness in his
voice when he spoke of Goblin, the bay
colt, which his children had never been
able to evoke.
Il want to win the Derby before |
die " he SAID, with touch of sentiment,
like Moses signing for the land of
Canaan. 1T isn't much to ask for, after
having done my duty by blessed lot
of screws"
Nobody-nct even Mr.. Sinclair him
self--could ever penet ate the veil Of
mystery with which Jackson surround
ed his favorite. Whether Goblin was
doing we'll or ill was secret which
jackson kept locked within his own
breast. When Jackson looked gloomy
| tho ppdarlinUc in tho stahla pnnplu6ad
that Goblin was "otf his feed, or that
Goblin was up to noug 1t,
When it came to the contest OF a
trial, Mr.. Jackson shrank from the
contest, and wi en- COMPEL ID to run his
protege against the best horse in the
stable, secretly weighted G bin in
such manner as to Insure his being
ion )mini usly beaten.
Goblin kept none of his two-yeer-old