The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-10-15
LUCK IN THE RACE HORSES.
CAST OFFS THAT HAVE TURNED our
TO BE WINNERS.
Fred Fosters Stroke of Fortune with Or.
RiCe-Two Great English Races Won by
Mare That Cost 15O-The Winning
Mare Owned nv m pripat in Jr,I,nd

Fred Fosters Stroke of Fortune with Or.
| Receive Great English Races Won by
Mare That Cost n5O-The Winning
Marc Owned by q Priest in ireland.
The day ST. Clair and Abuse each broke leg
at the Gravesend track there old turfman
in u corner Of the stand and shaking his head.
| That's the result Of a man abusing his luck
he said: Fred Foster thinks he can do any thing
with cripples and he's not the only one with the
| idea Both these horses were tender, and 1t was
taking chances TO run them. Foster was figuring,
as he always does, what he did with Dr. Rice.
| You remember when DR.. Rice broke blood vessel
| in turning from the backstretch at Morris Park
| fall' His owner would have given him TO any
one to cart away. and sold him for mere song
10 Foster, who took him South, petted him through
the winter and never let him out OF condition but
| lust gave him light exercise. The result was that
the spring found the horse hard and sound
enough to win the Brooklyn Handicap. funny
thing was that tipster in a sky parlor Four
tccnth street advertised six weeks before the race
that DR.. Rice would surely win. The horse was
then at 80 " /. After that his clients came in
shoals. but he could not live UP TO his reputation,
| for don't believe he ever struck another winner.
| Its funny how fellow gets hold OF a horse
like that and does something great with it. | was
in England about 1854. the year Harry Sampson
came out in the spring with the statement that
Stakes (Which generally becomes the Derby favor
| ite). the One Thousand and Two Thousand uineas
! the Derby, the Oaks, and St Lcger and what
/ Is more. he actually did So Well. in that year a
| member Of the Carlton Club went 10 Ostend for
pigeon and general shooting, and hen the spring
races on Il e beach came off, he about to send
home for a horse TO cntr when he CHANGED across
likely looking three year old mare in tho
shafts OF reed cutters cart He offered
hpIi for tha mi 81
The mare cast oil from well known
Belgian nOblcman's stable. one Of twenty or moro
| that had been practically given 10 poor hard-wurk-
| ing men around the district and were believed
TO he oil no earthly use save for moderately light
work. He took the mare 10 the outskirts Of Ostend
and exercised, her feeding her we'll and finding
such improvement that with owner up welter
OF any old weights on the sand the mare won
every time He finally sent her to a we'll known
| French trainer with orders 10 prepare her for tho
next fall campaign Then everything dropped
out OF sight. The Saturday before the Cambridge
shire which was run on a Tuesday, met Sampson
in Fleet street and he told me TO play Plaisantre.
had never heard Of the animal and could find out
nothing, except that it was French horse that
| had been landed two days earlier and had been
entered for the race and also for tho Cesarowich.
| 10 be run q week later | went " tho Nctcria
and backed the animal at 10 l with Gregory.
race, when about the same horses were entered,
! asked Webster's man what were his odds against
| Flnisau!ric. lie said there was no betting yet
and asked how much did want i said 500.
He said 20 To l. offered another century but ho
shook his head. Two days later took 10 J..
to and ~ IL 3, and won out. So a horse from
the shafts Of Belgian reed cart. costing $50 won
| the double event on training expenses
| Then there was the case of that Haggin colt
| Savable, sold for 81 800 and then winning three
a'e s out OF nine 1872 twelve on, Q, twenty one
out 81 two in 1898 There's a small fortune for
When in Europe went to Ireland, my birth,
| plac,, and made the acquaintance of good old
priest with whom played many a game Of sputn
loved good horse as did i' mysS Nv would H give
his name but the dear man is still alive lie rode
bcarcf called Phil Whc he r"rred I1 10 lend her her
10 me did not refuse, and was surprised when
| rode her TO hounds to find what she could do.
| Father, ! said, its the Marine Cup she ought
to be entered for: four miles IN tl.e turf natural
fences There is nothing round here can live
The old mans eyes ,winklcd,. and with a half
sory i"2 \; he he rsproH,cihtuy said Are yr NOS
! "Dyi a Bit said l.
An, there's Tho graceess American, be said
| with a smile, but do We think she ID Just that
"'Ot course, Of course. | replied, and went on
before the entries closed ! bought the mare and
recorded the sale. That the father had an un-
|
him In of accident. is neither here nor there.
took her alty miles away, out there toward Bal,
| the year and the fields cut up into small holdings,
| with boreens and stone fences a training para;
disc and there trained her. or rather she trained
! herself Two days before the We moved by
iaunis down To the city and were ready. Early
roadside and little gray faced BUSH .eycbrowed
clsS came to me and handed me note without
sa Know a Whiting and tore into 1S
| sand peCos saying What do you want Ito
smiled and snid 'Capt'cn want to see the mare
! win the cup, and can show you how lieRalkcd
me all round the course taking tho Jockey along,
and he showed us all the rotten coils plan ing
| few cloven sticks with yellow leaf in 1t where
/ the best ground was at jump; pointed out tho
good going over the plough and where the boggy
| mare could do and what tho others could. and
/ how they would ride, and how the boy must keep
rating along until lie appeared near certain fence
aud then lac was 10 close mp and he would shout
directions as the boy passed. II was an old time
! lrish way OF doing things but had sense enough
"rnere were fourteen starters, ,phiz at 10 Of,
1 aS III public did not take any stock IN tic
! ability Of an American TO handle an Irish horse
for ,ncir stone walls ,, gave t lev las. Wo,hs
lead, but was soon passed, and AT the mile was
fourth the three swells being ahead, one OF them
running free, and AT tic third mile the boy had
moved up trine, and then the old man appeared
t n ii 'T Giic, meaning rHai mon they co@!d n"
crowd him into the worst Of the going, ~ tho
m H I'M" c hundrc Yards to 10 aud he crH
! lurql man riding hard in The rear, whipping like
! thunder and gaining at every stride, The boy
bore down 10 the of. as directed, and the softer
| going got IN it's fine work, and slightly anchored
the swell Tor a hundred yards Then The swell
| began to creep up again and the boy taking oil
| his cap punching II with the stiff peak OUTSIDE,
laced into poor Ph,zs nanks, each stroke crack
| ing like followed hand, The mare, start cd
| OUT Oi her life bv punishment felt for tho first
time dart"d across the line, winner by two !cnRth'
tn worthy priest forge; the aalc, and rushed
ont to tho Imprumptu paddock I" embrace and
| cry over has pet 1,.vp days later che was becH
! IN g." p5rSt stab" and, faith lhr BIshop never
/ head q wprl uf II, thuugh sure re mus hcc The
cup on tnr sd board when hc call" Well, well
! lhf father was not The only old country sport
wen ring the cloth. Diln Pa son KING OF Ashhy
win the Oais with Apology, and didn' his d""r
wi!c, 80 years Old, 4" 20 Thc ttaGs "l't hoTAr
! trimmed with the paraOn q popular gclA"ni "a
Sure, and the boys checrod her " ;htccAo'