The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-11-05
MADE TO WIN BY A WH00P.
OWE CURE FOR SUiKY HORSES TRIED
Ar THE RACETRACKs.
A Rank Outsider Brought In First by Re-
LAYS Of shouting Stable Boys Mt tho Rail
-Revenge of the Poor but Not Honest
owner Upon tho Plunger who WEIGHED.

laws of shouting Stable Boys Mt tho Rail
-Revsnge Of the Poor but Not Honest
owner Upon tho PlunEer Who weIched.
WARRINGTON, Nov. al SEQ they hollcred
an old skate homo and got him under the wire
Arst by three lengths out at the Newport merry
goround the other day" said an old-tme trainer
out at the Benning paddock the other afternoon
Don't catch the meaning Of hollcring horse
h,mc2 Well, It's soaring a sulker pretty near
on, Of his hide and bride and making him run
by sheer force Of whoops let out altogether. This
nag Krss Kringle. that was hollered home at
Newport a few days go.is sulker from the foot.
hills He was sold as an n G. last year for s25
and At the beginning Of this SEASON he Frances
IN and wins nine or ten straight races right of
the reel at tho Western tracks. hopping over the
hes, they've got out there. Then he goes wrong,
declines TO crawl a yard and is turned out They
vank him into training again awhile back put
him up against the best a-running on the other
side " the Allcghanios, and he makes 'em look
ike bull pups one day and the next no can't beat
A IN, man lie comes near getting his people
ruled of Tor in and-out Kidding and then, couple
of weeks ago, or maybe bit less, he goes out and
ehcys up the track record. and gets within SEQ
ond Of the worlds record. for the mile and three
eghths believe 1t was.
Then, Tuesday they have him in at a mile
Western horses 60 The RICH, people, knowing
full well the old Sphngbok eelding's pro-
vens,es shove their big coin in on him any
vAv and take q chance on 6im being unable to
keen I'D with steam roller after his swell race
while before and the whole crowd fall into line
and he, on Kringle until the books give them tho
cold storage countenance and say, Nix. no moro.
Then they get UP into the stand and around tho
finishing rail and they see the aged kriss, who's
a rank favoritc, begin like a land crab when ho
usually goes out from the Jump and spread-eaglcs
his bunch They begin the hard.luck moan
when they eco the sour son OF Springbok trailing
along third In a field Of fvo and they look into
each others mugs and chew about being on
dead ono Turning into the stretch tho old skate
lss poor third. and stopping every minute q
plain case Of sulks like he's put up many times
before The two in front OF him have got Il rig hit
between them when kriss comes along into the
last sixteenth. still third by little Bit and then
the gang let out In one whoop and boiler that
could be heard four miles It's 'wowcel como
on here. ye DANCED old buck Iumperi' and W hoop
la! you Kringle from nearly every one Of tho
thousand lungs In the stand and UP az ain st
the rail, and the surly old rogue pins his cars
forward and hears the yep Then It's all of
Tho old s25 castoi Jumps out ike scared
rabbit at the sixteenth pole The nearer hc gets
the bigger he strides, and he collars the two in
front Of him as II they munching carrots in
their stalls and romps under tho string three
lengths 10 the good. That's what hollering a
horse homo means It's game that can only be
worked ON sulkers The yelling scaros the suker
into running, whereas It's liable 10 make good
dsposidoned horse stop rs II sand-bagged
I've seen the holler-'em.ln gag worked often
al both tho legitimate and the outlaw tracks
aud for big money. One Of the biggest hog
slaughterngs tina, was ever made at the game
was when an lroquois nag, a six -year-old gcdng
named Mckeeyer, turned rank outsider trick
Al Ahx>eA.r l.is-d Il 1895. The boys tina,
knew what WAS going TO happen that time surely
did buy it BY the baskeuu for a long time after
ward Mckeover was worth about s. in his
latter career, and not whole 10, more al any
Stage OF the game, according 10 my way Of sizing
EN-. AS five and six.year-old, he couldn't
even make the doped outlaws think they were
In race. but his people kept him plugging
away on the chance that some day or other he
mIgh' PICK up some oil the spirit Of his sire tho
royal Ioquois, and pay for his oats and rubbing.
anyhow When he was brought to Alexander
island in tho spring OF 'e5, and tried gu, 4, was
seen that no was Just tho same old truck. mule
one morning. after he'd been beaten a numbe,
Of times by several Philadelphia blocks, when
" " ' ''<' MS o"Her hhu nIfn
cua 'o' o' OF a ean'er around the ring with d
,"pounu s.ao'o oos on him' lot OF stable
ss anu ran o'ns were sea''ered all around the
nne.u' assemoeu IN groups AZ intervals OF a
wv Ne' OF So che"'hg grass ana watching the
m''Ns AZ ner morning WORK. ms old Nc
N'e'e' s'ai's AROUND inc course as II he's doing
",ep "a'n'nH STUNT inc boy gives him the
h,ap anu VIC oa'' ou' us no GO Mckeever
sticks to his caterpillar gait. and his owner leans
against 'he tail win watch IN his miu and num-
Dies unhoy things about the skate. There =
a laugh among the stable boys and the rail hi,d,
.s Ncveor., 90 ,..u,,,,.ti - ~, "
80, ~" k""uhpnins around. linen
!" H'hbe hd mats got n bit 81 Indian In him leans
over the rail Just as McKeeyer's Gaming down
,pa I.,s o,, , CIT, -, - 80, '''''
~, """P ""' 'ah W hedrd across
WS fo'omhc' Mckeever gives a Jump. and
away he goes like the wind II loo,s en- funry
=. tho r,il b,ds alone ,h H.. ~ :, -, -
-, "'" "'."s ''o "ne 'na' 'hey all 'akc
"P ho yep, ana Mckeever Jumps out faster at
every shout. lie gets to going like . real su,e
enough rae. b,,s. h,, H.. H. l., -, =, =
'"e' "','r U! '"e "tno nc mas made mo
'f'nH once ami he keeps right on. The owner
gets next 10 it that it's the shouting ,bs,'s Leon