The morning times., 1895-08-14
Biggest Good Thing Ever
Pulled Off in Recent Racing.
BACKED OFF THE BOARDS
j. r.. Check, q Young westerner,
Springs a Surprise at the Island
Trsck-She Beat Her Field in a
Common GalIop-Eer Owner Pro-
duced ProofThat She Was All Right.

There have been "good things" pulled
Off the world over since there has been
betting on race tracks, but it is doubtful if
ever in the history of racing one of them
has netted more 10 the schelners behind it
than did the winning OF Dollie, a two year
old who captured the first race at the
Island yesterday
As good as 100 TO / could be had against
it, and the pool-rooms in Covington and
Baltimore were all but put out OF business
The fiIly is owned by j. K Check, a young
Westerner, who only recently came here
She had done some wonderfully fast work
IN the West, and he thought that the best
place 70 get price against her and make
big winning would be in the East, where
she was not known.
His brother played her in Baltimore and
accepted any price against her he could
get she was backed Off the boards both
there and in Coyihgton, where it was
known how fast she was. These were not
the only pool rooms To fall to her, as
walls came in after the race from all over
the country, showing that the scheme had
been well worked up before it was
sprung.
There were fourteen of the youngsters to
go TO the post and she beat them in
common gallop, going the route i'll IS %.
If 1t had been necessary she could easily
have chopped off at least a second from
this time. Affinity and Inheritance i'll
the same race, were heavily played but
could not give the flying WesterRer a
race.
LOOKING FOR A RINGER.
As everyone has been OH the lookout for
ringers since the day that such a howl was
raised over the George Hakes affair, it
was at first said that DolIie was a ringer,
but her owner quickly silenced these re-
ports by producing her pedigree and other
conclusive proof that she was Just what he
had represented her To be
The other feature Of the day was the
owners handicap, which brought the best
horses at the track together but did not
result in the great race That was looked for
This disappointment was all owing to the
reckless riding of one small boy. Little
NOStrand had the mount on Key West and
was so anxious tn win that he almost sue
Ceeded in putting Ataman and his jockey,
]. Bender, over the fence.
Ataman had the rail, breaking in front,
led to the turn. Key West outran him.
however, and, catching him just as they
struck the turn, Nostrand deliberately
crossed in front of Bender's mount, causing
the latter to pull up so suddenly that the
boy nearly fell from his horse. Ataman
did not recover until Key West had gained
Sp,.h n IA ont nf hA
ton to catch him.
When Bender did get his mount in his
stride and running true. he went by the tail
enders as if they were standing still. 1t
was too much, no wever, to ask him to catch
the flying leader and he was used SO much in
the first part of the journey that he dropped
back at the finish and did not come in
among the first three.
Affinity closed the favorite in the opening
race, with Inheritance second choice, at
threes The former was not in the money.
while Inheritance was a poor second to
the hundred-to-one shot Dollie.
Billy Boy was again made fayorite, and
at last succeeded in landing a race. Far
ragut led to the stretch, where the favorite
headed him and drawing away, won easily
by half length.
SUSPECTED A FLUKE,
The handicappers thought that Watch
Charms race with Finnwater wa S a fiuke,
and made Frank R Harf the favorite for
the third race Harf and Watch Charm
raced neck and neck to the turn for home,
where Parsons went to the bat on Harf,
" no was all but out He ran game race
under the lash, but could not OutSprint
Watch Charm, who won in a hard drive by
half a length. Pulitzer was an indifferent
third
For some unknown reason Jewsharp was
made favorite over AIda in the sprint
race at four and a half furlongs. Barnes
nny led from f!ag-f to finish and won
handily from Annie t, with Flash third.
Forest turned the tables on Con Lucy and
defeated him in the easiest kind of fashion
just how he did it, as Lucy beat him a
block the last time they met 1t hardly
seems probable that the difference in
weights was sufficient to account for the
sudden reversal of form.
Even If Ataman had not been inter-
fercd with in the closing race il il uoub,iul
if he could have won, as Key West was a
great horse at the weights. silva profited
by Ataman's hard luck and ran into second
money with Mirage third.