The morning times., 1895-08-19
NOT GIVEN 4 FIR SHOW
Western Horse Owners UnjustIy
Treated at Outlaw Tracks.
DIESTEL Is AN EXAMPLE
Stansbury Is Once More on the Win
ming Side-His Watch Charm Is in
Great Form and VIII Crimp Even
the Observation-Disclosures of
To-dny's Events.

While horsenen throughout the coun-
try are commenting upon the treatment
Dwyer and Croker received when they took
their stable to England, they should first
make sure that theirown records are clean.
The adage that. people i'll glass houses
should not throw stones" applies very
well in this case.
If Croker was treated badly while abroad
how are the Eastern horsemen treated when
they take their horses West, and vice versa?
They are handicapped just as severely by
the jealousy of the local horse-owners as
were the Americans in England
Take, for example, the treatment j. j.
McCafferty has received in the East
When he first came here the Eastern horse
men tried so hard to drive him ava Y tha t had
he not been stubborn lighter he would have
packed up his traps and gone home before
you could say Jack Robinson"
They all claim that McCafferty does not
pay enough attention to form, and runs
his horses very incOnsistently. This may
or may not be true, but il does not excuse
the treatment he has received, nor speak
very well for the hospitality Of his fellow
horSemen.
Right here at the local tracks we have an
example of the injustice that meets horse
owner when it is known that he comes from
the West, and has few fairly good horses
that are liable to capture purse now and
then.
The moment Johnny Diestel went West
and bought half dozen horses that were
capable OF earning their feed and brought
them on here the idea seemed to take
possession OF the across-the- river track
officials that he had something on them, 5"
and he was at once singled out and made
q mark Of
This is particularly so Of the Island
track where they seem to have picked him
out at once as black sheep. The officials
know he is on friendly terms with one
of the officers of the ST. Asaph track and
must have thought that for that reason
he would expect to get something the best
of it.
Even at st. ASaph, however, he was not
treated fairly. He started silva after the
horse had been off the cars only few days
and because he did not win Patsey Nc
Dermott came very near being set on
the ground.
silva started again on Saturday last and
was made the fayorite. He figured to be
the best one in the race but those who know
anything about the horse knew that he
could not run when the going was the least
bit wet and he was accordingly not played
very heavily.
or course his price went back and he
closed at 2 to /.
He got off last and did not seem able to
untrack himself at any stage of the game.
1t is probable that if Halle Gay had not
been twenty pounds better than her field
and run right through them at the finish and
into second place they would have said that
she also had been pulled.
Congdon has been riding Diestels horses
and mad the mount ON silva. He is pro ebably
the best boy as far as honesty is concerned
now riding at the outlaw tracks. He is
never called up and when he is on horse
it is ten chances to one that he is trying for
all he is worth.