The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-08-14
FIVE HUNDRED TO ONE.
Bob Millican Wins the Longest Shot
Ever Known.
Three Persons Known TO Have Bet on the
Horse.

Inc long shot betting record was equaleu
II not broken at the st. Louis fair grounds
track the other day when Bob ASilican, a
Texas bred horse by Getaway, out Of Belle
Coolgrooye, owned by T. A. Gay g. Co.,
ridden by one Bonner, an evident novice
and alleged cowboy, won the third race at
the enticing odds Of 500 TO l. Never In the
records of the American turf has horse
won u race on a regular track at such odds
Once and once only has it been equaled,
and that was when the skate Peytonia,
ridden by W. Keith, carried 90 pounds in
an overnight purse at Washington park on
juno go, 1894, and beat Senator Irby, 81
&C. Weber,, to /; Flora Thornton, 90 a..
Soden), ~ to l.; Sister Mary, 102 (Cassin),
3 to /, and Maid Marian, to on, in the
order named. The time was 1:41A.
Forty thousand people saw Peytonia do
the trick. AS a result Of first night bet
ting tho books lost heavily. All the green
uns" went after the 500 to /, and Barney
Schneider, the St Louis bookmaker, Is
credited with having paid out sl2, 900 on
Peytonia.
That win was a scratch. Two of the
stake horses, Sister Mary and Maid Mari
an, were just off the cars. Senator Irby
was not quite right Peytonia had been rae
ing at Hawthorne all the previous spring
and was hard as tacks. The three big
ones altcrnated in the pace, and like all
pacemakers received the worst of 1t. Pey-
tonia raced along and wore them all out.
The Bob Millican win was good deal
of huke too. Ridden by the inexpert
Bonner, he bore in against imported Thorne,
the favorite, In the last sixteenth, and
while the interference was not sufficient to
Justify a disqualification it hurt Thorne's
chances, as IL prevented Slaughter using
his whip. Fifty yards from the post it
looked as If Thorne had 1t won, but MILL
can crossed the line good first by a neck.
Speaking Of the race, Judge Burke said:
"Before they had gone an eighth i spoke
to Judge Murphy and asked him 70 watch
Millican. The boy was sitting stiff in the
saddle and had the horses head in his lap.
He was entered as a maiden, and / thought
he was in to qualify for beaten horse
race. All the way around watched him,
and even at the last eighth pole thought
he was not trying, as the boy sat still.
"About a sixteenth out he went to the
bat in such an amateurish manner that 1
thought he had no chance on earth. The
horse ran well and true. He swerved a lit
tie and bore in toward Thorne, who was
making a rush, but he did not touch or
jostle him.
1.-THE horse is a good one. He was in no
condition for a race. Indeed he was SO soft
that big welts and even blood marks were
plainly visible where the whip had hit
him. do not think the race will do him
any good, as it may make a sulker OF
him"
Fortunately for the ring but very little
money, hardly So in all, was bet upon Bob
Millican.
l.. Il. Cation, owner of Ike Pryor, horse
which started in the Millican race, bet SO
on the winner at 500 TO in Johnny Cole
mans book He was attracted by the
price and the knowledge that the horse
had run seven furlonGs in 1852 n few days
previously. After the race he walked
around the stand and proudly exhibited
his ticket calling for $1,000. The paste
board was the cynosure Of several thou
sand admiring eyes before it was cashed.
Another man named James Christian
bet So on the nag at 800 To /. He tainted
when he saw him win. If the horse had
been disqualified, he probably would have
died. A young lady named Smith, who
sat back of the press box, had 81 on at 100
to /. She received her money and sensibly
Ieft tn6 track, Wlln u VOW utNcT W couio
back again. But she won't keep her word.
They never do in such cases.
1t was ladies day and the stand was full
Of them Millican's win will set all the
female bettors playing long shots for the
rest of the year, because there is nothing a
woman loves so much as something for
nothing.
Bob Millican's win brings TO mind other
famous long shots. Plenty, at 900 to i,
won at East st. Louis three years ago.
About So was bet on him. The most ia
nous of all long shot winnings was that OF
Queenie Trowbridge, who won ut $50 TO
ct Brighton Beach four years ago. II diff
fcred from the Millican and Plenty cases,
inasmuch as McCafrerty, who owned
Queenie, fairly broke the ring. He wop
$3.50, 900 on his fllly. Like Bob Millican
Queenie Trowbridge ard her Jockey,
frankie Jordan, were unknown. They
went from East s.. Louis to New York
and were picked for farmers.-St Louis
Post Dispatch.