The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-05-10
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most as bad as being out Of condition
upon the very day of the contest.
A final point; instructions" or riding
according to orders" bother a jockey
tremendously at times, and often keep
him from winning. Conditions now and
then arise which make 1t impossible 10
follow instructions without losing the race.
instructions are good enough IoI men
who are not fit judges of pace, of dis
lance, or Of the qualities Of the animals
they are riding-careless, hot headed, or
thick headed fellows; but men who pos
sess all the qualities which these good
fOr-nothlngs lack require no INSTRUCTIONS.
Inese are proper only IN the cases l h ,,i,,'
cited and for green boys. And speaking
of green bOys-they are positive cane IN
a race. They run zig-zag in every possible
way 10 gain position, and being no judges
of distance often collide with and upset
good Jockey and his horse in trying to
"cut across him to catch the pole. They
are the cause of most of the casualties on
the race track. But. thank heaven. It is
seldom that green boy is injected into
handicap.
Now to take a kodak view of the horses.
Henry of Navarro rules as faVOrite, the
betting being three to one against him,
with Clifford a close second at five to
one. These are not tremendous odds con-
sidering the fast company they are IN,
and when we further take into consid-
GRAFTON the fact that the great 3-year-olds
Ben Brush and Handspring, who are
wonderfully speedy and game, have thir-
ty to one quoted against them. Ihen
there comes keenan,, fifteen TO one; Lag
zarOne, twenty TO one;; Sir Walter, twelve
to one HOrnppe, twenty-five to one
Nanki-POOh, ten to one; King Arthur H.,
fifty to one; Counter Tenor, fifteen to
one; and Senator Grady and Saragossa,
full in the books. All of these are fly
ers, and if Henry and Clifford shall get
off poorly and have all or any considerable
part Of these in front of them, it would be
a tremendous task to run around them.
"pOCketed' in the stretch. That happen
ed to Clifford in two or three OF his great
Ia NH.f. j.. Iara
hard luck in bunch" 1t also hap
pened to Lamplghter and other great
racers in the past, when really inferior
horses won. A handicap or a suburban
is not like a match race, or a race with
only four or five horses in ii. Pockets"
are a frequent occurrence in these. and
Tenny Is the only tavorlte IN the past
seven years that has won i'm a handicap.
Hornpipe last year and DR.. Rice the year
before were genuine outsiders. Not man
I'm a thousand thought they had any pos
sible chance Of winning. There is pref
ty fair horse, for example, in Bright
Phoebus. He won the handsome Reali-
cation stakes last year, and yet forty to
one is quoted against him. ] should hate
to have him on the pole were ! mounted
on either Henry or Clifford, and had to
pass, say Sir Walter Ben Brush, Hand
sDring and keenan,, or any other good
quartette before getting to HIM lie
unexpectedly a few years ago, when he
beat Lamplighter I'm great race.
Especial pains are being taken by Train
or Billy DOnohue to fit LazzarOne for the
handicap. Billy's confidence is wonder
f1l. and ne feels sure that the slashins
biz son Of SpinaWay VIII corral the prize.
he is dangerous if he gets to the front
near the turn.
Trainer Billy Lakeland, who has IN his
string. among others, Counter Tenor, EN-
ma O.. Hornpipe and King Arthur III, in
tends to spring a surprise, as / hear, in
the last named horse. This 4-year-Old
brother OF the famous Freeland has shown
marked Improvement Of late, and he may
he able to do the trick. Lakeland did 1t
last year with Hornpipe, and race-track