New-York tribune., 1897-07-02
SEVEN RACES WERE GIVEN.
PLENTY OF SPORT AT sHEEPsHEAD.
THORPE TOOK GREAT RISKS ON TRAGEpiAN'
n1-r WON THREE CONTESTS.

ruorpr TOOK GREAT RISKS ON TRAGEDIAN.
But WON THREE CONTESTS.
rh. Corev Island Jockey Club seems TO own the
r-oo,hor his vear Few racing associations ever
had so many clear and fine afternoons In series.
7, was not hot al Sheesphcad Bay Inc "hoie-
so-,o hraeze was so soothing that even the losers
- r.r,,e In slow sad. sweet way, as patient
=. cniroza or Schopenhauer ieven the sloomest
,,,,s,, Is not always restless). they ccnned
coau,,n,s Official Turf Guide, and scanned every
race which Doggett ever rode on Sr wafer ana
Central Trust and Zanone. They studied II al ana
,hev searched il all-evcry figure ana every 'abe'
rncr ,bev Wondered They knew all about Dog
ye,,.s palace not on the Lake OF Como out on the
Rrooklyn Cycle Path They wondered "he'her
,oh worth or Hugh Mclaughlin was Doggetts $
net political protector. The' ueNe" iii'o al 'ne
3eepest and darkest recesses Oh uo'""i" "ui"e'
rhev weighed every ounce which Dogset ever
,.d on ,boea horses They meditated over every
inch Of the distances which those racers ran "hen
=. roao ,ho, They scru,inized the quotations Of
-. Ao,,;ro IN all those contests, as the Turf Guide
nr,n,s tho odds And then they had only words OF
nraise for Doggett. This was smart jockey the!
said and a jockey who coud get away with H.
rro,,s the phrase which tells on the turf In these
doys tbcv added. Happy is he who can get II and
se, away with II is tle common cry. Long ago
1,,ca bismarck summed up the philosophy OF the
r,od In those two terse, trenchant Latin words
a..pea,i Possidentcs" Doggett is Beatus Possidens
And he'll keep it. TOO. Who Will get 1t away from
him?
A conspicuous fault of these times is lack OF
,borough research Americans hurry too much. as
a rule and they don't dig. II they Will dig long
enough and deep enough into Doggetts EXPLOITS
and discover the Assyran tablets from Nihe'e"
ubich exhibit the symbols Of Doggetts me'nou9 III
riding Sir Walter and Central Trust ana "aiioie
and some other horses In certain races wheh 'he
owners of those horses backed The animals ana
nd
s,il further and turn up the strata upon Whl0h
ore c,t the cuneifor hieroglyphics OF all the ruea
of this remarkable jockey. they will have ma'elia
enough for a museum in comparison with & "nlCm
ali the cartouches and sarcophagi ana 'iiui'f. ny,
az s.e ponIsk will he scanty ana meagre. A leW
DAYS ago Central Trust. with DOGGY "P, 80
Ssafen by some long-forgotten trlloolle' W, Mioso
ee ha: now passed into obloquy and oblivion
V,erdav with another jockey in the saddle Cen
ia Trust M rUs %ns 20 Whch a Rchard Croker heaped
as city Chamberlain seemed poo, anu M az Cen.
i Trrst securities OF course it's all right ne
mo,,o Of the day on the turf is to get IL no 'a, ~
.ar how YOU get IL. but get II. in wan Sttoor ,o ~
esewbere Get it if you can. no matter now now ou you
get IT, Keep il If you can no Har1si d, oiye II up
Keep or H. can help it. That's the end-of-the-ceh'ui!
~; 10 on the turf and in some other places.
D.. ;ba bookmskers have been known 10 De "aiiuv M
in the far forgotten past TnelT pt''s and profuse
me ne arst race was for horses which had never WI
a 80 and they were all to be 'doeh D! arp,ur nr
tices or by toys who hea @ neNei Tine Of me six
I'M M ,arters more than half OF them ran Ih ahe
whole journey false starr: II wa cT,ires or
ssoi soie NJ ny Twain's "Innocents Abroad a poy
N d Hx-ri,e rode James r. Keenes Oceaha %ilu
naInea ~ all from start 10 finish In the ialse
trset hT os II it were for the Epson Defpy'
IL Il,ot- W. ~ Reard OF Brooklyn. is turf sta'e;s-
man He sleeps win both eyes 20 0psn nnd1s fs o Mr
turl "eao,,id rather own a spawned hackney that
could jump sodawa'er founapa Ia IN tnan walk n'f S
More who can beat the Whoe w, = little broom
heid ID out by one OF Colonel MaFns ne mpers
ga IN also ike jumpers. Mr.. Beard Is one
q sod who IN like bought uT2sriB Beaufort Nc from
keen - 80 a. a moderate price. ana ehteleu
him in that @ for n MAIDEN dc naq In the funny
HlaIiehh - hut he won the actua! race al NE
ia.~e n sweet will But. all in all II vas no Us "a ~
,ss, of cvclopean magnitude. IN ldOl' - ~
ridiculous lit;e hit OF russ. r, -ace which
c.oobus was taken out of the second race "Hici