The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-09-29
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their work at sunrise, is deluged with
"sure things" in every race and often
makes but one bet in the week. He
has unbounded respect for his own
opinion, and when he thinks he is right
he bets as if the race were over. AS
he is only human, he is often in error.
But he can lose three times out OF four
and still be winner, unless he loses
three times consecutively, and then he
is apt to be bankrupt. That is what
happened to him the early part of the
season and forced him to begin the
Saratoga meeting with a capital of
$50. But let Grammar win thrice con-
secutively, when he has big capital to
work on, and the betting ring will be
bankrupt.
A Horseman BY Instinct.
Grammar is a product of the Blue
Grass region of Kentucky and he has
the intuitiye love and knowledge of the
thoroughbred of the true Kentuckian.
He is of Irish parentage, and the good
humored expression which always
adorns his plain face tells of his Celtic
origin.
He has one popularity, and that is
his calmness. The writer stood beside
him and watched him carefully during
the running of the special race won
by Henry of Navarro at Sheepshead
Bay on which he stood to win $50, 900
or lose $4,000. Grammar watched the
horses through a pair of long field
glasses, but his face was a desert as
far as emotion was concerned. The
writer paid no attention to the race,
devoting all the time to observing
Grammar, but it was an impossibility
to tell whether this wonder had lost
or won. There was not the tiniest
vestige of eXultation or joy in his face,
yet he had won a, fortune by eight
inches, the margin by which Navarro
had beaten Domino. Men who had
won S. on the race were screaming
with eestatic pleasure all around him,
but he walked back to the betting ring
with head bent and eyes glued to the
ground
OF Grannan's extraordinary GOODNESS
a big bettor once said: "Crystalize all
the ice in the north pole into a 14O-
pound lump and you have Grammar"
Not a System Bettor.
In his betting Grammar follows no
system or set of rules. He has a COM
plete knowledge of horses and trusts
to that. He never bets on an uncer-
tain horse; that is, a horse who has
good and bad days. He also avoids
betting on horses belonging to stables
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once when Grammar had decided to bet
on a horse. the owner has come to
him and told him the horse could
hardly win. The owner was sincere
and did not wish to keep Grammar off
so that he could get fat odds himself
as no one on the race track has the
courage to throw down. the calm
Kentuckian. But Grammar has more
confidence in his own judgment than
in the owners, and he has bet accord
fngly, although the owner did not
have a cent on the race. Sometimes
he wins and sometimes he loses.
Crooked bookmakers have tried to give
him the double cross" that is. to
bride an owner to induce him to bet
heavily on a good horse which would
be doctored just before the race. But
the Kentuckian has not been around
racing stables all his life for nothing:
he can scent danger long distance
off, and he has seldom been caught by
any of the games concocted to fleece
him.
Grannan's Rival.
"Pittsburg Phil the plunging rival
of Grammar, has made betting a
science. He works everything out
mathematically and then makes bic