Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1897-10-07
TIE LAST DAY.
Jessie 0 Takes the Unfinished
Race.

At s 80 the people who held pools Oh
the unfinished race were at the track
to Wins the final heat between Tod
hunter AZ, Jessie 0.
There was no delay in the start
both horses breaking on even terms
at the first trial and came to the head
Of the stretch with Tod slightly in the
lead.
They fought their way down the
stretch with no relative change Of pO-
sltion, Tod atill holding his own uu-
til about a hundred yards from the
wire when he swerved in his stride
and was DOaed ont by Jessie in SO.
There was a lot of talk after the race
about the horse being pull & but no
proofs were produced. The might be
fore there vas "A great deal 81 excite
meut in town over the race, as a great
deal OF money was up. There is DO
doubt hat an attempt was made
Sc yeral il faci-tO handle both the
riders. An attempt was made to ger
'PIzea" drunk and an attempt was
made to buy Miller, who rode Tod
hunter.
D. Circe agreed to back Todhunter
with 800 if allowed to name a new
rider. sand also agreed to run Tod
hunter again for 500 Il side, but Jes-
sic O's owner declined.
Henderson asked permission OF the
judges to put up a new ri Ter but was
refused,
Several men with pools on Tod con
cluded thai the rider had been fixed,
and sold their pools for half their face
value before the race.
The refusal Of the Judges to allow a
change raised a howl. The Judges
say that under the rules there must be
a written protest before a rider can be
changed after he has gone in one heat
and that no such protest was made.
Those who claim the horse was pulled
say that the tracks made by the two
= horses owe the coursn show it. There
had beeu a rain in the might and it
, easy to trace the course Of both horses
Tod's course shovel that when within
n hundred yards OF he wire be had
swerved 10 instead Of being made q
$ head straight for the wire aud that
1 this swerve lost him the race by a
/ nose.
+ Oc the other hand he Jessie O mnn
say that Tod was ridden to win a. his
rider crowded Jessie O cut as far as
possible at the turo and that the track
of the horses show it.
The Tod pool holders say thai this
was done as a blind and also to dis.
qualify Tod from getting the race il
he came 10 first. 0 hers insist thai
Miller was out to win and do up the
men who were backing Jessie, as be
- had an old grudge to settle with them
horse went for every pound in him.
: The rider Miller said:
81 run the horse to win if was GU
to pull him l could have done it las
night. I made him repeat in fastel
time than he was beaten in in the frs
heat. The Jessie people were up at
, o'clock this morning working on thei1
4 horse, and I had to wake up Todhun
ter's people this morning to get hin
n fed. There was no vita liniment fol
h bis shoulders this morning as there
should have been. I don't propose t.
V be blamed for tdis race. It wasn't the
a b tndling Of the horse in the race bu
g 1t was the lack OF handling before thu
race in the morning. Twas approach
ed last night a dozen times with prop
ositions to pull the horse but I'm no
n that kind of an artist.
% One circumstance which stamps tn
le race as a rank job is the fact hat on,
mau who scented it had pools on Tod
hunter, which. if the horse had wo,
would be worth nearly 800. He sal
ID he should demand a change of rider
in the morning and the parties down
on Jessie for nearly $4,000 came TO hin
7e and bought bis pool tickets for thei
:, face value in order hat be Nigh
"a have no cause for d protest.
D. In the afternoon Stormy won tn
h half mile dash with ease in SOB, Lo
Banos Kid second.
In the five-eightbs dash Lucky De-
wOn in the fast time Of l 1923, with -
pounds up, Baleric second, Rapid
third.
The three-eighths dash for $500
side between Iron Heart and Col
Cloud, closed the meeting. While tn