New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-10-01
TARAL IN WRETCHED LUCK.
HIS MOUNTS WE'RE NOT PROMINENT

The Brooklyn Jockey Club is singularly fortunate
In the weather. but the starting the riding and the
! stewardship in some OF the races have been OF
cheap yellow-teve, New-Orleans type rather than
OF the quality which should be characteristic OF
sport in Greater New-York the second city OF the
world Autumn I'm her gracious temper was
never more bountiful than when she smiled upon
J the eleventh day OF the Gravesend meeting. nut
even in ne most indulgent and amiape moon
September could not refrain from scowling when
sh. gazed upon the starter. the stewards ana the
Jockeys in soTe OF the races In AFTER ages inns
meeting will lie biacx with big blot inky with
gloom IN regard to some of the starting, some OF
! the stewardship and some OF the jocKeyship' ra-
tent above all other human beings In the annaS
Of the nations the Americans who pay "
each for grandstand tickets In order TO see
such starting such stewardship and SUCH Jockey
ship they have seen at this meeting III some vi
| the races and credilous and simple above even
| the benighted Senegambians are the ful-gro"h
men who walk the betting-ring ana make
wagefs with the ravenous and wolhsh bookmakers'
! The percentage In flvor Of the bookmakers Il
deadly. It is worse than the percentage against
the PLAYERS on red and black on the roulette tabes
in mining camps In Idaho. Upon the roulette tables
at Monte Carlo and at Ostend returning travel
ers say as they gaze rueuy upon their disheVeiieo
letters of credit and their impoverished bank ac-
counts-tne players against the bank who risk their
money upon the co.ors have only a percentage vi
/ 20 IS against them Those Monte CARO- anu
Ostend tables have thirty-sM NUMBERS as ''e
Homburg and Baden Baden tables had before the
war between France and Germany. Eighteen OF
those numbers are red and eighteen are black III
a n.ay,r bets that a red number Will come ne mas
an even chance at Monte Carlo or ostend-so I'M
pecunious REGULATORS who have come pacK VIII"
their trunks and little else declare-with the ex-
cepton that the little ball may drop INTO the gre"
7oro so, When the freakish and uncertain gioou"
finds "A resting place in the single zero gree" ''o
the hackers Of red and OF black 20 do"h III o
common ruin That green slot Is as MOI p'c d. '"'
green venom which posons Paris. the per'c''"
absinthe Al Long Branch. y. $50 dep'- ou'ucn,"
come hackers" remark-all the roulette lap'eS III
all the Daily temples OF the vince! are dishgur'i
with two green slots. single zero ana ''u'',
zero Therefore the embarrassed anu ""''''
gambler on coors the DAILY turhines mas p't
certage Of 40 % to contend with. But in Lead
ri II In 6reede I'm Dead Mans Hulch anu !" ""''
similar watering places In the west '"e 'o"''''
marble snins mcrriIv with only twenty-eisht num-
hers fourteen red. fourteen black ana uea"S
three Of arsenica green-single zero uo"''' o.,
and an eagle bird" When the roulette peHe'
sinks 10 rest upon the single zero. the doune zero
or The Uihernian ''cng gle bird then all the ayers
on red back use bad language any M. !, ro'
must plav colors at fortunately no statute
coinpels any on to play roulette 'o' csr' W o1y
Branch or to ieadvile As to betting on the race
don't DO t. nut 4 Satan emp,S S y So other I, s!ie
Of the globe in the English colony at Hong Kong.
drenFn"d
bo e. acid on every race day. and the betting-rng
is nut TO soak in Concentrated corrosive sibilrnats
Deccmbcr Ir Hong Kong the stewards me
Jockeys tho bookraker- and many OF me 49, o%n'a
and trainers are sprayed with antiseptic huids NJ
Intervals OF five minutes. Therefore epdemics OF !
turf ganerene arc iare IT Hon. Kong roce,-,cks IN
this STAT are I'll aliye with epidemic germ . 90 i
prostraies more victims than ever laid low by
hague Witch Is s,l stifins the charnel-houses Of
houses the pocket books and IN" peace OF nlnu OF
ihs tn,t,,res inart.d hy the horrible bookmaker
bacillus southern cities guard their pe"Pe aga,ni,
zons Of New-Jersey are wise they VIII arm mem.
solves with -iVGen-ton guns n Greer TO lSpyy
\ bookmaker can DO more harm IN a gay man "
n,R r IN OF 70 Your arms. them men OF New
Jersey the descendants OF the patriots who ara noi
a, home In order protect their atlrs ara Nor
nros from the marluiing iessians, Wicked ana IN;
Hudson comfy. and likewise OF Monmouth; The
faro-bankS like the poor Jersey Cy ana ana b ,%ns
maker is more bteful .nemy than rhe hnnr
o. pcr,l beware Of he noxious bookmaker. He
has stripped the speculative New Yorker who bets on
,ng race" o o, - m B~ M % caH se ,osehc
and no~ he Is casting eyes of impatient desire upon
tho youthful and ,orlant inhahitant OF NewIJeisfy
loud btzoo Men OF New-Jersey. awake. HSo |
arise, Tho mcrcenary and rapaclous iiessan Of to-
in all seriousness. the starting the stewardship !
and The iockeyshp have heen so unsaiisfaciory IN |
many races At this Brooklyn meeting that only |
-, beokmake* vi" NM re% a6@ the Ti@ in
Greater NewYork and permit thc rac"tracik nG h
simple truth TO say mat me ay'I"Sr p''s"' r' l
average faro-hank gcis firrr Ieai aS f rum
tho average bookmaker IN The average bettlng-rlng
The most ingenious advocate OF racinS couIh ma |
vos,erday no matter how hard he might Try. why |
suppress lotteries and permit racetrac* or,hbhR
which Z IN he main similar to b s"m9sE IN 'U Of
terry tickets what att,un" Is M, nr ,ewnrd rnce
track hctilns rings? $500, ,..,-o..,,,,
"nr 81 on tn %a turf Just now the Cloud
Of bad luck which ~ hanging over Iarai the hcst,
Jockeys have their periods OF bad lsk and poor
form Taral has ridden some OF the most brilliant
AS ~ ne were under n "hoodoo." Even Gee could
have RIDDEN Merlin with as good results m ms "ral
and got part 81 the money. n Gee had been
en, ~" no bart Of the money In the second race
Tsra was on Bromo. His noun, was unplaGsd nnd
done no worse with Bromo. In the third race
raral was CRssette. This mount also was I'M
ro"d havc donc no worsc with Cassettc. In the
fourth race Taral was on Firearm and came In
that with FIrcarm. In the nth race Taral was
Rondo and got thrd Pqs b, II 1c or nad Ro oasn
would have the race easily But he was not
pSmiTer IN Of Tara Who had been backing his
mounts in tho first four races certainly could not
got back their losses Rondo. as the hors" was
~ n short price straight and the bookmakers gave
: bo apecuators no opportunity win much money
by backing Rondo for third place. In the last rae"
rsrai had no mount His absence from the saddle
was boon TO his friends. because. In the bad luck
and had form in which he riding. he would
not probably have secured n place If he had had
mount
Sloane has gone England In popularity Taral
has been the foremost jockey In the country. !
sloane has been second While Sloane Is on the
ocean and Taral Is riding In the bad luck and bad
form OF Yesterday, what consolation Is there for
people who like TO holly fought turf battles IN
which EXPERT Workmanship In so important an ele
ment OF interest? II was day OF disaster. OF
da rkness and calamity.
The fovore san Venado ridden by Sims.
pl,ced I'm the The odds-on favorite Cleo
phus also ridden bv Sims. won the second race at |
six frrongs The official time announced was ex
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