The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1901-12-08
JUST NAME A HORSE FOR him
THAT'S GOOD WAY TO BRING I'LL
LICK TO AN ENEMY.
Gases cited BY . ilookmaker to Prove the
T~heory-The 81. Leuis Merchant. the
chicago woman and the Actor All Made
Victims Of the Racetrack In This way.

TneOTy tue Sts hfodhs ntTVinnts ~
chicago woman and the Actor AL Made
Victims Of the Racetrack In This way
sDan,' said the owner OF q string OF
,~horoughbreds TO a bookmaker the other
day. I've got n likely two-year-old down
on the farm that / am going to race this
winter, and ] think III name him after you.
You think you will, hey2' replied the
nookmaker. -Well, not giving you a
short answer, YOU won't name the mutt
after me II ] can get an injunction, or a
writ of replcvin, or an alibi, or some old
thing like that out against you. What
YOU want TO do. hoodoo meS'
NO, Hindoo you. said the owner. This
one I've got's a Hindoo and a babe II l
know ANYTHING o EN-.
-Jh.huh, that's all right. too" replied
the bookn,aker. but ] wouldn't have him
named after me IL he had the STAYING power
of Hickory Jim and the speed OF Salvador.
You call that horse afer somebody you
don't like and you'll have a swell chsnce
n get hunk with him. Never marie a
,acehorse after a friend unless you want
10 SCI. your friend drop onto the Stag dump.
.On the level, though went on the
~bo,knaker, more soberly. I've been next
% too many cases Of folks being Jonahed
bv having runners named after them TO
stand for having any of the merry-go-
FOUNDERS diked out with my rame' lhere
are a lot OF exceptions, of course, but most
of these exceptions involve folks who have
haen more or less tied up with the horse
game before having animals named after
them. Even at that, however, I'm not
taking any chances.
Il don't suppose the hardest talker that
ever inflated a lung could induce Sol Litch-
ens,ein TO bet the price OF shave on that
pamesake plug OF his that's running now
ont in California The goat wins once
IN A while. at that. but Sol drops the left
Iamp and lets him run for Horgan-never
for Sol.
Il don't believe George Wheelock ever
bet A glass bead on Wheelosky. Joe Nendig
never chased around pasting yellow C's on
the one that ran with his name. and nobody
has anv tintype Of Joe Ullman in the act
Of breaking his arms TO get down on the
iour-legged one hat had his name chalked
over his stall.
But these instances. as I say. are the
executions and | could mention plenty
OF people who had been mingling up with
the game all their lives who found them
selves cropping around in Broke Swamp
after having had fiery untamed ones named
after them. Al for the rank outsider who
has a horse named after him, in nine cases
out Of ten he butts hard into the end stanch-
ion sooner or later. and then prowls around
IN the trance Of ~lmpecuniosity Tor the re-
mainder Of his days.
Five years ago there was in st. Louis
a sedate. sober. middle-aged man whom
everybody in the thoroughbred business
that ever raced out that way was acquainted
S,.sl II vna "A, tho hay- and lrTaIn huISi-
ness and he supplied all Of the stables
uuartersi at the old St. Loo Fair Grounds
track with feed and forage.
He Vas a pretty comfortable citizen,
With paying property, scattered around
the town. money in the bank. wife and
children fixed out with everything they
waited, aud all that sort of thing. Well,
II was five years age last spring that a
fellow namNi n horse after this man, who
had never cared a %picayune for horse races
and who had never bet a dollar on a race
in his life.
The man who named the horse after
TINS prosperous hay and grain man was
an Eastern owner who had taken a string
out TO st. Louis. bet on all OF them whether
they were ripe or not. and when the season
was over he was holding the bag.
He was three or four hundred 20 the
had in his account with this feed merchant.
and the latter. being a good hearted citi-
zen, and seeing that the owner was in hard
luck. sat down and wrote him out a re-
celpt in full and sent II to him. The owner
was 30 pleased with the kindness that he
named a y~earling that he had In his string
after the hay and grain man.
He didn't notify the merchant that
he had lone this, and the 81. Louis citizen
didn't know anything about II until the
the beginning Of the st, Loo racing season
the following spring, vhen somebody told
him that his name figured among the en-
tnes for a t~wo-year-old race on the first
dsy Of the meeting.
He went out TO the track on the opening
day to see what his name~ake was going
10 do. He didn't bet a nickel, and he was
more or less stupeied when he saw the
held Of seventeen Bsby two-yesr-olds
and win In a romp nj 80 to !.
After the race the owner Of the hone
approached the feed man and paid up that
cancelled feed account Ia fun. a. hs could
well AFFORD TO do. LA wing made a Wiling
9th his ~youngst"r, and he Joculsrly ad-
vlsnd the grain man Ia have a bet down
on the colt III. neat time out. lie didn't
need Ia gye that advice The stald ieed-
man already had the bug himself
lie Wac already Kicking himself becAuse
he hadn't broken away from his lifelong
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