The morning times., 1895-08-28
ODD SOCKS WIS PULLED
Jockey Guest Was at Once Ruled
Off the Island Track.
BETTING WAS SUSPICIOUS
Monolithe's : RaceA Iso Needed InvestiG-
tion-StartIinGe hanges of Form.
Talent Came Out Ahead on the
Day HaIlie Gay Is a Mudeater.
Finnwater Deceived the Bookies.

At the Island track yesterday for the
first time in weeks the talent got far and
away the best Of the game Things have
been going the bookies' way At sucn a rate
that the handicappers had begun 10 think
that the clouds would never lift Their day
came, however, and IN only Que event did
they 60 wrong.
Odd Socks was the one TO throw them
down and that they were right in making
hin a Iavorite as well as the other five
who did win was shown by the action that
the judges took when Odd Socks passed
under the wire a very poor third Guest.
the boy who rode him, hardly had time to
reach the ground before he wasruledoff
All Of the horses in this stable have been
running on the in-and-out system and the
stable Will undergo a through iuy,5ts1-
tlon before they VIII be alIu wed T. start
their horses in the future.
BETTING WAS SUSPICIOUS
The betting in the Odd Socks race was so
I suspicious that any one but blind man
could have seen that something E.s coming
off He opened at 10 l but despite
the steady play that went iC on him went
up and up until TO > could be had. The
trouble was that the right money had not
come in.
II never did come in, either, but the.
/ public played it SO heavily that by post
| time the price had been hammered down
| TO to o Guest did all kinds OF queer
! things TO the horse during the running OF
| the race. He even tried TO BE- beaten out
| for third money, but could not pull the
| horse hard enough.
J Monollthe's race might also have been
! looked into while the Odd Socks race was
/ being investigated This colt has shown
! scuh startling changes OF form that
| little sitting out would not be out Of the
| way on public form he figured 10 be
/ the easiest kind of a winner III yesterdays
! race
/ The first favorite TO win was FinnwGter.
| The bookmakcrs for some reason got 1t
into their heads that she would not do,
! and laid as good as to . against her
when the horses went to the post. The race
proved only a Canter for her She led
from the fail of the flag, and landed the
money by five lengths from Pattie, with
Arda third.
In the second event Flushing was nearly
backed off the boards He opened up at
TO / but was so heavily played that he
went to the post a 8 to 10 shot
MADE THE RUNNING.
Blizzard went out in front and made the
| running TO the head of the stretch, where he
quit, and Flushing came through He
was winning easily, when Airplant got TO
him, and Murphy had TO go to the whip
TO get him home in front of Becket's horse
Halle Gay proved that She simply eats
the mud by taking the two-year-old event
into camp in Canter She was heavily
supported, being backed from to l down
to even money. Al Helenbolt at all kinds
Of fancy odds was second.
Billy Cotton landed the fourth race by
good luck His horse Brogan got big lead
at the start and as he had a field Of dead
'uns behind him came home wIrner by
eight lengths from Odd Seeks, who beat
FoxgIOve a neck for second money.
After some hesitation on the part of the
handicappers they finally settled on Con
Lucy to win the fifth race, and sent him
to the post q to / Cshot He was in
front all the way and won easily from Frank
r Harf, with Jersey third
The closing event went to Key West, who
was a prohibitive favorite. Heewas in
front from flag fall to finish, and won with
a little shaking up at the end by an open
length from Watch Charm.