The St. Louis Republic., 1901-06-23

pick more than two winners in six races.
The average is one and one-half Winners TO
.he day. In view of the fact that every
hardicapper will guarantee you two win
ners a DAY this is a poor record indeed
Three winners four days week has always
been considered fair performance for a
Handicapped. This season has seen very few
winners of the four-out-of-six variety. and
lac who has averaged even two n day is
doing well.
With all the noise about bad Jockeys
making bad races. Just how all this change
of condition has come about is not easy 10
explain. To be sure. there is not any such
thing as turf discipline in the West this
season. and performers have slight reason
10 fear punishment for in-aTd-out running.
Uquestionably in-and-out running has never
been so noticeable on big tracks nor has
IL ever iourished with such impunity. A
turf thief fears naught In ST L0uis. for
should he be ruled off for cheating here he
can go TO Chicago and run there. The case
CT Jockey Harshberger. who ruled of
for bad ride in ST. Louis. and was later
received with open arms by the Western
Jockey Club and given a license 20 ride on
its tracks. is case in point. Talk about
outla~ed. winter and night tracks. Never in
the worst DAYS of Gutenberg. South Side
East ST. Louis Clifton was such a rau-
cous disregard of honesty and propriety
shown. These outlaw and night tracks al
ways Respected the rulings of the very
tracks that were trying TO kill them. The
Chicago tracks respect nothing but the
shortest way 10 the almighty dollar.
Nothing could possibly exceed the bad
taste and ildeeency of allowing the boy
Harshberger to ride. save the bad taste dis
played by those who control the boy. in
allowing him to perform while under sus-
-f.-fr.,
fair. Whoever controls the boys actions.
father. guardian or employer, should not
have allowed him to accept mounts until
his name was cleared of taint by the reg
uiarly constituted authorities OF the assoc
citation by whose agent he was suspended.
The position in which the Chicago tracks
placed themselves by allowing this boy TO
ride on them Is unique and awkward The
Western Jockey Club tracks are the only
tracks on which Hafshber ryer can perform.
He is barred on the tracks of the Eastern
Jockey Club. He is barred from the tracks
of the English. French. Austrian. German.
Russian. Australian. italian and lndl;ll
Jockey clubs If turf government WAS
sound, concise and 1oopholeless. the tracks
which Harshberser rode. the jockeys
who knowingly competed with him. the
track manager. Judges. starters and all
others concerned III the government of the
premises which he performed. would b.
suspended snd punished for Nconniviug al
anc permitting such violation of all laws.
rtat Is the law, and it should be applied.
When the Western Jockey Club assumed
to assume so to speak. control of the West
ern turf. it made an outlaw rule which
made every horse owner and jockey who
performed on a track not operating under
It's rules ineligible to compete on its tracks.
Later on. under pressure. 1t amended this
rule 30 as to allow horses which had been
entered in stakes on tracks refusing to join
the Jockey Club to compete in such stakes
hnd also in all races rLp on tracks where
they were entered In such stakes.
This rule was an imposition on the poor
owner, as it hurt only horses not worth en-
tering in stakes
Several owners. notably Turney Bros,
Talbot Bros, and Tom Hayes, have raced
horses on Turf Congress tracks that were
not entered in stakes. These horses. their
owners and the jockeys who rode them
should be Ineligible to perform on Western
Jockey Club tracks. Yet what do we find!
Turney Bros. are welcome at Washington
Park with a lot OF horses who were not
entered in stakes at St. Louis So are Tai
envy Of the Western Jockey Club. Jockey
OrNeill will ride the Hayes horses at WASH
ington Park. What is the Western JOCKEY
Clubs outlaw rule worth?
Chicago turf writer's now chafe at him
dered racing. and say the Jockey Club was
too drastic with its outlaw rule: that #
should have been softer. What weapon in
the name OF sense did the Jockey Club
have but its outlaw rule? Without this
rule II is without existence. The Chicago