The sun., 1900-12-09
BETTING ON THE JUMPERS.
OWE sURE WAY. APPARENTLY. or WIN
VINO Ar THE RACFTRACKS.
statistics show That Bets on the rs,orites ar
the Ions shots Win In the Ions Run &C.
stee pie chasing and Harding This Country.


SteeplechaslnR IL a curious sport II IL
the one phase Of horseracing at which a bet
ting man can win from both ends The
winning favorltes average from ~ to % per
cont. and II q man consistently PLAYS the
extreme outsider In every race he will also
come out ahead In fact the latter method
of speculation was that advocated by the late
Admiral Rous The horses over the hurdles
and the steeplechase course have run more
true to public form OF late years than their
brothers on the fiat
The sport has varied history In this coun-
try. It surely originated In Ireland as a
test OF endurance from steeplc TO steeplc.
and IL came into vogue in England about
i7e3. or about forty years after tho four and
half mile match from the Church OF Buttevant
20 the steeple OF St Lcger Church The
first English chase was over eight miles OF
Leicestershire country. and IL recorded by
The Druid
Before the war Of secession America had
only the several mile heat racing. and II was
not until peace was declared that any at
tempt was made to introduce jumping races
The Racing Calendar" shows that some
were held at Secaucus in September. 1895,
with ZiEzag. a star performer. and in october
that year Mamie Cradock came into prom
inence at Paterson A number OF Canadian
horses came down to take part In the race,
but after Il few metinss the sport dwindIed
and seemed likely to die OF dry rot
Ii was at the jerome Park meeting OF 1859
that the first really important eNort was
made to bring il into due. prominence, and
just then IL was practically lost art. In
that year jerome Park inaIgurated me nrst
chase ever held by the club, arranged as
"steeplcchase handicap sweepstakes .!S
each play or Pay, a'13o adicl, ao0re ronss3 r@3
Npaa r,.rS IA
and combated the idea from start 10 hnlsh,
1t was said to be brutal and DEGRADING, cruel
TO The animals, a menace 70 III. ana III a,,los lI,s-
vative members of tho club. carried his point.
however, and the chase was duly held. The
opposition OF the press. the novelty OF the
idea. the hazv conjcctures Of what might
happen. attracted an immense cI9wd, over
1900. and Deadhead Hill was black mass
many succeeding crowd OF chase lovers
There were seven starters Wyndh,
Walden. then a yoGnz man. n sent. sent TSI1,s GS.r,s.
Iittleneld entered Mitchell. i20 pounds the
lowest weight. and others we're Bohannon'
Ibs1. PS1 sas M hoSs nara race witch
man, Jr won bv a neck. with Bohannon
head IN front OF Mitchell
Later Boharron and I,obela turned out
ingtor Duffy. by Hunters Lexington; Dlayo-
To- believed by many to BE- the b"st steepihT lppho
drew a, hearse in the winter and Inorted S,,K
As a chaser In the sunm"r, MiIes'an, M,,cSo So' C.
Ths Ms. craSk 5%oSEs Esorse we're sHss anH aryay
W"ich. ih NHriiss Charles salt. Fat Meanev, William
dsy AID JShT yand ss ,.n Il Mssss Mrs 'ss FaSs %Ss
With Hviand np that caused Hyland TO for;
swear the iTnns FhoS" were Lac,i9as .hs days to- to-
Jockeys were dream. Directly, the horses
started hc ran al over the infeld meetins
60 hn,. rttni'
lander won m the suburban. The sport con, con-
jobsa jhstn and accidents brought it into dsfayor.,
Then a number OF men founded an assocla-
,c I@c at Ts.rs hsTtS Arthur HGFwSSa HHHtsr
Hitchcock i Morris; 4 bcmont mon ,d,1osr rgrssy.
Sand La MGHippSiT 6i tpS erHd SMdn were M
backbone. Good horses came 70 the iront
among them Major Pickett winner q TnI We
5000 Grand Natonfs, eIfoInsr haSe"T He "Thsre were
eighteen Starters in the Great Long, Island
StHeplechase OF that year. won py n a,ar nsr
woods Tonkaway and run at BayswSater:
but again the sport was overwhelmed oy
the protest. onal Jockey element. and it petered
Then followed a period during which
srecios Of pony raclnR was introiuced WIN
certain measure OF success ana lnls "a u,asspu sbn,
Racing Association got control oi lumpiinS
races The National Steeplechase Assoc!atloh
was formed in 1895 and finally the Nauonaa
Staaplechase and Hunt Association came
into existence To-day IL may safely be salo
that the sport IL more popular than ever pe
fore. tho racing ia clean public form Is almost
invnriablv lived M TO- and the class Of horses
enga god is steadily improving. although mere
nre still "a in ENGLAND too many ca,sF1bbs ~
iumpers 1t Ia curious to note that no ACE
ouate name has been coined to express the
IN ,soa there wore a2a starters In the fifty
races steeplechascs and hurdles or an average
OF fsy anda half to race as arai pst an are'ss9 s
Of eight on the n2I S' ner .n'ce cont but of the
f,rst favorites "a per cent, won. or thirty-two
/ n the fifty races. and the average price against
Nat II was phenomenal year for hackers.
as there was only one run OF three con-
secutive losers and two runs OF two con-
In 1000 twcntv-gy. favorites won In the
nifty races. or - per cent. ana tne average %
69r.S 9rcSs sssan'p I'VE at tho
Morris Park spring meeting and disluaiih-
cation Of Buela. More horses iel, than , une
or IL per cent. The greatest run OF snccessiv
losing favorites "a one Of five. Twenty
two OUT Of the twentyThve winners staG,tH6 nnhtd
had drawn on their chances from previous
performances II will be seen from these
statistics that a holiday visitor who goes TO
the track on tho days when. as rule, tho
jumping races are held could not have lost
money # he bad ssmpy plsysdb ths soH iGISpe Spxe
won s3iS on the twenty-five winners, and on
the twenty-soven losers he would have los
Regarding the playing Of the longest shot
ri ght across the board and trusting TO Provi-
dence. numbers Of men who simply have an
will smile in derslon at the idea. but the fact
remains that 1t IL good thing to do. Taking
1900 and Tor the sake OF conIY,"menc. paGlns
system method. into S. straight. 81 o place and
.i5. third, wherever possible. or $40 straight