The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-16
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f''rta tracks.
d Queer things happen on the race
tracks, said an old-time racing man to
Sun reporter. THE story Of how some
people backed an outsider because it
was white horse and they bad Just
seen afred-headed girl and how they
won, sounds forced, but it is no strang-
'er than what happened to a well known
man the day the Webster affair came
OH at Gutenberg. He went to the track
with his card marked by young .wo-
man who did not know one horse from
another Yet she marked him SIX
straight winners, and at the fifth he
was over $4,000 to the good. Then he de-
cided he could not stand Torchlight, the
DAILY cast-off, at 40 to l in the sixth
race, and backed the favorite at 8 to 5
and so lost nearly all of his winnings,
while Torchlight won easily Another
case is that Of well known cigar man.
ufacturer who went to Sheepshead and
for fun turned back his roll of bills and
took the left-hand figure of the num-
Der of one of them and backed the jock
ey whose number correspondent He,
too, had five straight wins, and finally
lost by switching to the favorite, when
everyone knew that Sol Lichstenstein
was practically holding Emil Bey, the
horse indicated by the number, out of
his book, and Emin Bey won in a walk.
He tried the trick several times after,
but 1t never went through again.
Another racing man has wife who
loves horse dearly, and, without be-
Ing an expert, she is a good all-around
judge of a sound animal. When Domino
was in his prime she looked him over
In the paddock one day and told her
husband never to back him running
down hill. She went into the paddock
the day Henry of Navarro, Domino and
Clifford ran at Morris park. and, seeing
Henry move around with that swaying
motion of his loins something as a
wolf moves, she recognized a wonderful
resemblance between him and horse
she once owned called Phil Sheridan.
Her husband was a strong Domino man
and stood to lose a lot, but she per-
suaded him to hedge on Henry. Well,
the race was Domino ahead at the half
and Henry at the hree-quarters and
an easy winner. Domino, coming down
hill from the water tower, was eased
up by Taral in the last furlong That
fiat toe of his could not stand the in
cline.
The most curious thing she ever did
was in, think, 1892; anyway it was at
Sheepshead, and on June 81. Early
that morning she woke her husband up
and asked him what time it was He
grunted sleepily, looking at his watch
Five minutes past 3. Go to Sleep She
SAID: remember l have something to
tell you at breakfast In the morning,
remembering her dream, she told him it
was about a horse with yellow and
black stripes rushing down the track
away ahead of everything, and she
wanted him to play a horse carrying
yellow and black stripes in the race
about p. m. that afternoon. He looked
over the entries but found no yellow
and black stripes. The nearest to that
description were Lawless. with yellow
body and black sleeves, and an Empire
stable horse, ] think Comanche with
yellow and red stripes. That confused
her as she was dead sure of the colors:
but later when she saw an ice wagon
driver with yellow and black striped
Blazer on, that settled it. There you
are she said Play the yellow and
black stripes If they are there, body and
sleeves If not Lawess was quoted at
SNto 5, Comanche at 80 to l, and finally
Ibe man put up SIS on the former, and
the Empire stable horse won by block.
pulled up. The wife was right about
the stripes, but wrong about the color
Another time she insisted that her hus-
band should play Wilfrid because it
was his name, and, getting 100 to /, she
cashed a So ticket. So far as I know
the horse never won before or after
that race. Then she played Sullivan at
40, to / the same way because 1t was her
servants name and the servant being a