The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-06-30

friends OF that needful hour to do as they
please on the race track is paying too large
a sum for ones whistle. even IL ii is price
less friendship. The horsemen who stood by
the Turf Congress are not in any wise en-
titled to use that body To thei- own ends.
though il seems that not a few OF them
thought they were entitled to do 50. When
brought up with a sharp turn racing as
stunned a fair complexion.
one certainty developed at the Fair
Grounds. The starter must be good every
day or there Is bound to be trouble. While
Mr. Bruen's work has been very good as a
whole. very brilliant at times and very bad
In spots. the mass of professionals seemed
to be easily dissatisfied with II. OF course.
opinion of the professionals largely iBfiu-
enced the amateurs. Hence il Is that Mr..
Bruen has got to be at his best all the time
or there Is sure to be trouble.
Just how good the racing at the Fair
Grounds has been II proven by the way in
which the horses that ran there performed
In faster company when they went to the
East or TO Chicago. Wax Taper proved him
self a better horse In Eastern COM
pany than he was I'm Western. Otis
and Father wentker. the Schrieber =
year-olds. were only beaten short
heads by the best Eastern colts OF
their age In the two races they started In.
In Chicago the work of Nainaoinen. Helen
Print. Maud Come. South Breeze and others
at the great Washington Park meeting.
showed that the horses which raced in ST.
at the great Washington Park meeting
were much better than those which raced
at Harlem and Hawthorne and Worth In
the same period. Unfortunately. 1t does not
seem that 81. Louis will have as good a lot
In the future as IL has had In the past.
Judge Brady's action In changing boys on
a horse that should win a race. yet who. the
betting indicates. Will not try TO win IL. IS
one that has been indorsed by everyone but
those who like TO '1isy against a dead one"
When Mr.. Brady changed the jockeys on
Menace the other day. it was argued that
by SO doing he burned up the money 81
people who bet on the other horse. under
the belief that Menace was a dead one"
In other words. the crooks who thought
they had one dead and the fly" people
who raped to the CORPSE felt that they
were wronged by having their money. bet on
an alleged or supposed dead one. burned NJ.
Every human being with an iota of moral
character will admit that the wise" mon
ey. bet against a dead one should be
burned up. and that the money of the ny"
people who follow the wise money. be-
cause its bettors think they know some
thing should he inc,nerated: also. no one
can gainsay. For the latter are as guilty
as the former. The only one entitled to any
consideration H. the sucker who picks the
horse because he really thinks he can win.
nof because he thinks he knows something,
and he Is not hurt by the judges action IN
such a case, for It insures him a fair race.
which is all he asks. A man who Is enough
Of a moral ghoul to urge that people who
think they know something and lay against
a supposed dead one should not have
their money burned up, should he doins
time In the penitentiary. Such a person Is
4 moral leper and unfit to be abroad.
1t is a pity that Judge Brady cannot
change boys on horses right along. II
would be greatly to the advantage OF the
sport IL he had at his three or
four good boys who did nothing else but
ride out horses on which he put them at
the last minute. By switching jockeys with
out notice. and by not allowing q new book.
Mr.. Brady will keep n crooks racing I'M
der him guessing and make them exceed
ingly leery about betting money in chunks
on anything that looks like . dead one"
Changing Jockeys is an excellent and COM
mendabIe practice. This one change of Mr..
Brady's I'm the Menace case did the Fair
Grounds turf a lot Of good.
In the case Of Menace. II Il but right to
say that the owner of the hlly. MIR. Fi7er.
Il q gentleman beyond reproach. and that
II his fIly was a mark he certainly knew
nothing OF the game. His own boy, O'Brien.
was sick. and was not riding his mare.
Neither Is II a reflection on Wedderstrand.
Brady substituted Gilmore for him. 1t was
just a proper precaution. that Is all. AMI
hurt or insulted no one but crooks"