The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-12-22
WHY THE HORSE DIDN'T WIN.
Mistake of the Jockey Riding the Animal
Spoiled "Fixed'' Race.

Mistake of the Jockey Riding the Animal
Spoiled "Fixed'' Race.
From the Washington Star.
After the days racing at Benning
track the other evening a number of
horsemen were swapping hard luck
stories. when old Bill Jones Clipped in
one. 'Th' toughest luck in me life that
| ever run up ag'inst was long bout
tn season of "a or SIS, / think it was.
Thet year | had some four or five in
trainin and, while they was all good
enough, somethin nuther was all tn
time THROWN me down. When tn
horse was fit TIL jock treated me to
pull. an when tn boy tried all right
tn horse would quit an chuck it up.
An when tn jock was givin' me ride
an the horse was fit there was always
one or two in tn field a leetle filter.
That's tn way things went long till
bout tn close of tn season when was
bout all out an a long, hard winter
starin in me face.
We'll, as you may 'spose. ] was bout
desperate like, an was undecided
whether to sell out an quit tn game
or part with tn top of me head by
means of shotgun, when long comes
some of tn boys one day an proposes
to give me a pull-off. There was a
steeplechase on the card for the next
day an they tells me to put old Skin
talked the thing over an when tn en-
tries closed there was five horses in
for that race next day. Old Skintint
wasn't much, but tn others We're all
right an on paper tn race looked like
to be a great one.
"Of course. we kept tn deal dead
quiet an when. tn odds went up tn
bookies chuckled when they wrote 100
to / ag'inst old Skinfint. But they
didn't chuckle half as much as me an
tn other fellows. TIL race was crooked
an dried all right, tn understandin'
bein' tibet tn other four would pull out
an go wrong or tn jocks fall off an
let old Skintlint finish lone. Well, tn
boys sends into tn ring a few dollars
on me horse an l rakes together a hun
dred tn bookies givin' ME tn laugh as
they takes me stuff an then makes it
200 to / ag'inst old Skinflint
"They never tumbled TO it, of course,
specially as / he'd sort of crazy sta
BILE boy on me horse. an wild me tickets
calm fur $4,000 he'd visions tibet amt
to be he'd outside pipe joint. Well, off
they started, old Skinfiint trailin IS
lengths behind. an after clearin tn
second Jump tn two in front was pulled
outside tn flags so far tibet they
couldn't git back in time, an at tn
next jump tn leader bolted all right.
tn jock slippin' off an lettin his horse
GO Tibet left only old Skinflint an tn
fourth horse in tn race. an with only
one more jump to git over. tn remain
in one ag'inst me was pulled so tibet
he went wrong by an eighth of a mile.
"Old Skinflnt got over tibet last jump
all right. an. when he struck into tn
stretch, tn next horse TO him was a
! quarter of a mile behind. Seem tibet,
me boy pulled him down an walked
him in, an was just leavin' the scales
when tn next horse finished, followed
some 40 or 50 lengths back by tn other
| two tibet he'd pulled up an then gone
tn right course. | was dom tn chuck
lin act then meself, although | was
a leetle uneasy bout tn slowness of
runnin' tn numbers up, an ! almost
he'd stroke of paralysis when tn
numbers did finally go up an | seen
they hedn't put up my number I all.
hedges says l. calm their atten-
! tion to tn mistake, they've got tn
wrong numbers UP. 7 win, you know.
Mot at ALL says the jedges; tn
numbers is all right. Tibet horse OF
| yourn didn't finish
Well gentlemen, You could hey
! struck me dead an | wouldn't have
| knowed it; but they was right, all
| right: fur. durn me. Of my stable boy
! jock hedn't pulled up an dismounted
afore he crossed tn wire