The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1901-12-01
W%OMANSWAYOFG ETTINGATIP
TRAP LAID FOR 4 TRAINERS
WIFE BY HER CHUM.
The Good Thing the Trainer Was About
10 start In a Race strategic Moves
of the Other Women TO I Out
About II - success OF One Woman
and the Trainers Disappointment

and trainer OF a string ofthoroughbreds now
.,ahled out at the Bennings track though
.,dfrarily a very mild-mannered man
IA, present in an unamiable state Of mind.
u is noted on the turf, East and West
~ a fine ar1 consistent good thing
,ecord. and he brought from Morris Park
:. Rsnninps a horse which had carefully
t.en kent out Of view and trained for a
inc-shughtering down here.
The owner and trainer has a clever.
.,s,tv wife. She has been his wife long
ssroueh 20 have become a thorough horse
romaE and also TO have become habi,ually
olose-mouthed in discussing her husbands
horses with inquisirive strangers or chance
.couaintances. She came with her nus
hand 10 Washington before the beginning
a, the Bennings meeting. and they took
quarters al a family hotel p~atronized largely
hv Government officials. The trainers
,ife quickly attracted the attention of
,ba other women guests Of the house on
bar own account as well as on account
NJ the fascinating profession" as the
xomen put il, folio wed by her husband.
nba trainers wife wouldn't talk horse,
notwithstanding the obvious desire OF
The other women TO have her do so. When
,bav tried 10 lead her into talk about the
horses. she smiled YEARLY and adroitly
switched the subject around to millinery
and the new novels worth re aiding.
Only one OF the women guests OF the
hotel knew anything about the racing
game. This one, the wife OF a Department
oaScial who has been following the form
of the runners for many years, playing them
when he had the chance, made even more
ri The trainers wife than the Others.
She carefully refrained from talking to
tbe latter about her husband string and
asking questions as to what the horses
thereof we're likely to do at Jennings nut
she made much OF the horsewoman. in
yitad her TO her apartments, and showered
pleasant little attentions upon her. Even
when the meeting began and the ofrclal
and his wife attended the track in company
with the wife OF the trainer, the horse
woman was not asked 10 answer any ques-
tons by her amiablc hotel chum as to the
chances OF her husbands t~horoughbreds.
For a week the official. who takes part
Of his annual leave during the racing meet
ings here, dropped his money every day
with unbroken ill-luck. ~ breakfast one
morning the trainers wife remarked to
the officials wife that she had about enough
OF the Jennings meeting. and that she
thought she ouldn go out again very
frequently during ITS continuance
80 sorry" said the officials wife ana
fnen she ll lllllt l lAANslliuAli ~ - ''N
know Of anything good that's gong 10
happen this week. q,
n was the first time she had ,entured
even upon so general n hint for mtorma-
ton as that, and the trainers vile was
momentarily thrown on her guard
We'll. there may be something to-mor-
row" she replied. and then she hastily
added, but of course | have no means oil
knowing, and mere possibilities are not
worth while considering.
The conversation stopped there, the
officials wife deity changing il 10 some
other subject. and the trainers wife was
unconscious Of having taken hold OF any
leading string. She did not go TO the track
that day. hut the official and his wife did.
One Of the latter's first tasks on arriving
OF the track was 10 get hold OF the card
for the following day. Hastily scanning
IL she found that one Of the horses of the
trainer al the family hotel was entered
e. run for the first time since the beginning
Of the meeting
That's the one she said 20 her hus-
band, putting her finger on the horses
name on the card.
i guess you're right said he, and on
hi way into town from the track he cas-
ually mentioned to a friend, another Gov
eminent man, that he thought there might
te something doing on "A horse ne named
On she next day.
Now II happened rather unusually that
this unsubstantially-base tip did not get
everywhere. as most tips do. All toId'
Perhaps forty men Interested IN racing
got hold 81 II. A few club men became
possessed of il. and they happened 10 pe
oil nOu-garrulOus club men.
The Government men who take an o"-
casloual flyer at the running game ana
Ct hold II the word about ia" horse
were al-p men vii. found II unnecessary
% -ay mach about % But all 81 ih'-o
Who did g.r Do believed In n, Tor the horse
Involved had frequently got away WIZ