Evening star., 1898-12-03
CINCH SPOILED A ClNCH


didn't happen my way out at the Benning
track. during the late meeting was that
White Carriers affair" said quietly-dress-
ed man. who follows 'em regularly, as he
waited for the New Orleans train on
wednesday last. I've got no kick coming
about the meeting, taking it as a whole
ana I've got dollar or two the best of the
layers; but stood to win out a clean Sto.-
Vt on that White Carriers filly when she
Rrst went over the jumps, and that on an
Investment of only 500, and the cheap,
tawdry little accident that prevented the
thing from going through is about as sore
a thing to think about as l care to haze
slowed away among my regular line of
thinks. This White Carriers jumping filly.
you know. belongs to Washington gentle
man. Now, L make it point to keep a
nfst-rate line of dope on all the horses run
ming at all the tracks in the country, and
don't overlook the state or county fairs,
either. l keep the dope only on the jump
ers entered at the county and state fairs,
lor the reason that experience has told me
that quite often a tip-top jumper graduates
on to good track from the bush meetings.
We'll, when l came down here from the
AqCeduct to attend the Benning meeting
L happened to know that this White Gar
terS hlly had been doing business of a high
order at the bush meetings in the states in
thls Observation-Disclosures she had easily
pSdlSI SuCii SOOU ones as DeC3DOG, Tor In
stance, over the jumps on long courses,
and L figured that she would be a rattling
good thing IL she entered at the Ben
nlng meeting, as | understand she would
be. Wei, four or five days after the Ben
nlng meeting began l found that White
Carriers was entered in a race over the hur-
dies and water-jumps on the following day.
and l saw a chance for a killing. So ma lie
a little tour of the bookies' hotels, and ask
ed them what they'd lay me on the flly.
None of EN- had ever heard of White Gar
ters before, and they practically told me
L could write my own tickets on her to
Win So, just as soop the books opened
the next day on that jumping race l
ploughed in and put down coin on White
Carriers to win. l got ~ to ! for 500. and
l considered that was just like finding S10.-
900 My play, and the play in small bets
of d few others who knew what White Gar
ters was, forced the price down to 20 to
l at post-time. The hliy was entered with
a lot of the cracks of the country when it
comes to Observation-Disclosures horses as
Trlllion, Baby Bill AreZZo, etc.-and yet
| wasn't afraid a little bit. l knew in my
bones that. with a ride and ordinary racing
luck, White Carriers, on her performances
at the bush meetings. couldn't lose.
We'll, the bunch got off to good start,
with White Carriers second. The favorite,
horse called AreZzo, set fast pace but
the fliy was right after him. AT the first
hurdle White Carriers cleared with such
beautiful ease, without SO much as ruffiing
the foliage at the top of the jump, that i
just began to figure on how l was going to
blow in that $4,000. But when the horses
went around the first turn l got a shock.
White Carriers went very wide on the turn.
and lost lot of ground, and [ longed to
be within distance of the man riding the
horse, so that L could throw something at
him. II looked like such a beastly ride he
was putting up on the fiily. She recovered
ground quickly, however, and before the
second hurdle was reached she was again
second in the bunch. She cleared that hur-
die, and the others down the straight, as
light Is a feather, and began to gain on
the favorite, Arezzo. who was still out in
front, but tIring. On the turn again, how
ever, White Carriers lost lot of ground,
going very wide aud falling back in the
bunch. only to catch up with the lea lers
again when she got Strengthened out for
the hurdles. This * the way the race was
run throughout--White Carriers. the filly on
which | stood to pick up $1,000, running
and jumping as if she far outclassed the
1eld-aS if she We're a good % pounds bet
ter than all of them put together-WhIte
Carriers losing about furlong of ground
on all of the turns in the two-aud-a-haIf-
mile race. 1t was agoniZing, that's what
il was and I'd have given any reasonable
amount of honest, hard-won money just to
meet the man riding the ffly, in some very
dark alley on black night, in order to hold
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS interview with him
through the medium of knobbed club.
- If that gent. rider on White Carriers
'ud only hold her head up, and not carry
her about a furlong mile wide on the turns
the experts were saying all around while
the race was being run, why she'd just
walk in
But the gent rider didn't do anything
of the sort, and White Carriers having lost
so much ground on the turns, notwith-
standing the fact that she outjumped and
outran every horse in the race-she Travelled
two or three furongs farther than any of
the others-she came in fourth. Well, when
the gent. rider pulled up and jumped off
l,I5 Ilx-t air-1,,,
The saddle on White Carriers had slipped
around on the first jump the filly took, and
the left stirrup strap broke, and under
those circumstances. it was, of course, i'm
possible for him to control the filiy; he was
in momentary danger of being dumped. on
account of the loose saddle, and, as a mat
ter Of fact. he showed a whole lot of skill
in getting the horses over the jumps at
all, and he deserved especial credit for
bringing her In, handicapped as she was.
a good fourth. Yet it was q sadly prema-
ture opening of a watermelon, and 1t was
hard money to lOSe-to get beat out of q
clean $4,000 on account of careless rigging
of a jumper before she went to the post.
But White Carriers ceased to be a good
thing by reason Of the race she ran on that
occasion. The layers sf odds OF course wit
messed the race and they trembled to think
of the long price they had written about
that sweet filly. 1t was dead easy for them
to that she outclassed anything in the
jumping line down at Benning, so that,
wien she came oul OiI THANKSGIVING uos
to start In jumping race with swell COM
pany, instead of being the rank outsider
with a big price, she was the solid favorite.
the price on her opening at 8 to 8, whereas
@ to ! could have been had on all the rest
of the horses. Well. the race she put up
proved that, instead of being at q to
against in the betting. she ought to have
been about l to 10 on. She won, galloping,
all the way, and picked up $500 on her at
that. But, when 1 reflect upon the differ
ence between 30 to 1 and practically even
money, and the $4,000 that 1 was done out
of, to all intents and purposes, by such a
cheap and nasty bit Of racing luck as
loose saddle girth and a rotten stirrup-
strap-oh well, that's a part of the game.
of course but genuine. yard
wide good things like that don't come
along often enough to make us feel good
when one of them is punctured by a fuke.'
And any horse that beats White Carriers
at the jumping game from now on-and I
don't except any steeplechaser now in
training in this country-will know that he
has been to the races"
She Had the Fever.