The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-03-19
A THREE-LEGGED MIRACLE.
CLIMAX TO A HORSE TRAINERS RUN
OF LUCK.
He Was Sure That Jodan Would Win and
Jodan Did Win, but lie Could Not Go
Back to Washington, for Five Friends
Were Waiting to Collect 81 900 Apiece.

Jodan Did Win, but He Could Not Go
Back to Washington, for Five Friends
Were Waiting to Collect 81 900 Apiece.
WASHINGTON. March 16--Washington, as |
remember 1t. was u pretty nice old logger OF a
town. said an old time trainer who got In at
Benuings a few days ago with a well-knowh
string OF horses In preparation for the spring
meeting there. I'D like to have II look ut IL
again by daylight. Got In this time after
dark and came right out here before sunrise.
First time I'd hit Washington for Ave years
sin 20 the fall meeting at st. Asaph in 1894. |
surely would like to have another look around
Washington. But | guess I'll have to pass it
up. I'm not hunting for bother owadays.'
Then the trainer picked uu n wisp Of hny
and chewed II refiectively. The paddock in
which he stood is only n few minutes run by
train from Washington. Is seemed odd. there
fore. that he did not step on q train aud run
over to Washington. since. as he said. he han
kered for another sight OF it. He was asked
about this.
We'll" he replied. I'm waiting for i've fell
lows that / use1 to know over in Washington
10 die. When they've all cashed in. maybe III
have a chance to look around Washington
again. But l understand that they're all alive
and on edge now. and | don't exactly feel like
running into them. | know that I'd never be
able to square myself for a thing that hap
pened down at st. Asaph during that fall meet
ing in 1894. so what's the use OF stacking up
against the bunch and wasting windt
II had a small string of dead ones at that
st. Asaph meeting. Didn't get oats money
out of them. That year was the frost of my
life. ANYHOW. ! started in around the New
York tracks in the spring with q bundle Of
three Thousand or 80 that | had hauled down
bv backing EN- out on the coast during me
winter meeting. and | began to melt before
the leaves commen sed to show up on the trees.
There was nothing doing for me. | couldn't
get down right. Nearly a dozen good things
that pals Of mine with strings had got into the
pink Of 1t to send over the plate at long prices
wound up among the also rams and the crimp
those things took in my wad was something
ridiculous. ] only handled n few horses dur
ing the summer meetings that wear on the
metropolitan tracks. Thev:wcre oil crabs and
did no good. SO | had to plug along hy shy
ing a ten or a twenty into the ring when |
heard OF something that looked nice. |
couldn't even make this cluhbing game 20
through. The books got two out Of three Of
my slips OF the green. and | got to wondering
how 1t would feel TO drive n truck. They GER
tainly hal me down that year.
When tho fall meeting at Morris Park
wound up | had 5000 and a headache. / was
figuring on how ! could take this town to the
winter meetings in the South and run II up to
something worth while. when the, owner OF
the bunch OF dead ones | spoke Of came along
and asked me to take EN- down to st. Asaph
and try to get a race or two out OF them. |
knew they were Holsters. all OF these horses.
and | was ugly enough to tell the owner that
when / wanted a Job handling cattle iii go
down to West street and get one, with n sea
voyage to Glasgow or London thrown in.
There wasn't a horse In the lot that could beat
~, - ola aunt in ireland nvar fine plata for mnDay
or marbles; but l decided to take them down
10 st. Asaph anyhow. Just for the sake OF keep
lug on the inside OF the game and finding out
II there was anything going on that would
enable me 20 run that small shoestring az mine
into a tannery. so I took them down to that
Virginia clay course across the Potomac and
fixed them UP the best | knew how. They
wouldn't do. st. Asaph was getting some good
horses straight from the Eastern tracks then
and my platers vera never In the hunt-never
one. two. six. In fact. Worse than that. the
books began taking my little 81 and s. bets
away from me right from the getaway. and
could see a winter ahead in New York with al
the trimmings cut out. ! met a dozen or 80 oil
pretty square chaps In Washington. business
men that liked 70 see en- run and that used t
ask me occasionally what | thought. ! landed
most OF them right on several dead good things
without ever getting a dollar on myself from
want OF nerve. my pile was So low. and they
made good. all right. when these things ven
through. But l was bunking up with such
hoodoo that ! slouRhed of even this rake.oN
and when the thing happened that I'm coins
to tell YOU about | only had so left out Of thu
COY cush ! had started in the season with.
Vow. I've been AZ this game. on both sides
q the fence. for more ;Han twenty Hes lr 9nI
the horse zane is hard and GrnRGyy; z. ! IN ney %
-n~nn na GnpnAfhinO AlC o m Inl1n1 7
admit that ! often get what you can call. II yor
want to, a bunch on a horse. somethi1E tina
get near the money. takes NV eve. and from
thinking about it get a bunch on him:
week or month. for that matter. hut I'VE no
ticed that these lunches. OF mine have Gon'
t t ,Ren,y , eins 5 times sS' oV w.t. IF tn ths fsT was t a hE pns
8 turl?ng spirits at Morris Park that fall. and
. . a{ his work. That horse Jodan Locked 70 m;
: good ones, and l could see when ! had Shanc
e short OF work. The string to which the hors
: belonged hal a poor trainer, and ! new ina
q ah Eoo % 1 1FHIner '2qh! ad f s h s%IMs S an jodant a 1mSe
u fixed Y In my head, that II ever the horse g.
e into hr"1g The o1 nsnds ri e, q t S2G The t saHIfnrl" Sna wa
tance. he'd get a piece of nv money, no matte
u what e}ompany he was " Hsains,; ot IN. {,
U wen. dlbUk loNhIu 'u0 'i'oV VI, Wv -
Asaph meeting Jndan turned. up nj the trac
;, With another trainer handling him "A man VIII
had as good a kuack Of cond ltioning horses a
ever l met up with. and an old chum Of mint
! rubbed W wI.h al MIN nm,e before nnG a nG e ed hi new wb %
u he was going to do with JOdan.
TIM going 10 Try him out In the first three
ia quarter event | can squeeze him into. he tol
me, and ] wouldn't be surprised to see him ge
a piece of IL. His right fOreleg is q bit bun
= but II il holds toR ether | don't see:why.the fe
l. lows | know shouldn't get n bite of "A real goo
thing in Jodan. He's got a turn Of speed. an
d I've got him dead right; TIE only thing TIA
worries me is that swollen knee. and l III DC
q ing my best at catching that up.
1t II told him Of the hunGGh I'd had at M2rTi
le and he'd attend to his end OF 1t 10 help me on
at " 'There'l he all kinds Of a price on hli
when send him to the pun =. he. said, an
n I'll let you know in time lust how he Is.
in Well. that bunch Just grew and grew q
~ ME. The Washington chaps that had M
II and pushed along with the good things that
re- Gidn't have the SAP to ~ " myself heard lrn
a. me on the Jodan question. told them that
had him NJ my sleeve and to stand by. The
nal never heard Of the horse and they almo
a side-stepped when told en- he was "A go'