The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-05-19


ting or the meeting. 1
The class of riders ut tho Fair Grounds
Is quite as good as II is anywhere IN the
West. yet It is very low. Worst of au, there
seems but slight chance for Improvement
1t is q remarkable fact that. though the
boys riding there are all beginners. they
are also very big fellows. Hence. they will
not have time to improve before getting too
heavy. Some of the novices cannot do bet
ter than 100 pounds. "A novice who cannot
do any better than ninety-five pounds Is
scarcely worth bottlering with. for he will
be a weller weight long before he becomes
a jockey. Dade. u. Shaw. A. Weber and
Earl seem to be about the only boys light
enough and of sufficient promise to mike 1t
worth while training them to ride. In the
older. AMI. settled division Kuhn. Combs
boys. But among all of them Dominick is
the only one In whom bettors can place
complete confidence in his good riding.
iorm Combs and HoUck can finish OF
heavy.headed horses, but do not get away
well Little Dade gets off best of ell. but
seems impotent after the break.
On the whole no fault can be found with
me horses, Inc owners. the trainers, the
Judge or the starter. The only ones who
cess or the meeting are the ~bookmakers and
the jockeys. The latter do their best, The
former do not.
~ strikes me IA funny all this tank you
NaA- tticuiIu d THE tIdck HOWdUay2 A0Out
dope " said the old-timer as he rolled am
other cigarette and spilled enough tobacco
on MS clothes to supply two others.
gang, and amber. fluid in inviting mugs
formed a groundwork over which the old
hot-air stories and hard-luck tales we're be-
ing handed out.
Yes continued the old-timer. s'eyery
time one of you young fellows cracin to me
about a horse havin' the hop in him causes
me TO smile. 1t looks like hop or dope Is
taktn' Tho IIapo nf fr1tnoro owl nrS- Precr
guy with q good prescription or q syringe
can get In the game and make a hit. 1t
ain,t like the old days. boys. Hoss racing
sorry for 1t.
'Tha reminds me, though, Of the first
time l. ever see the hypo put into a horse.
twelve years ago. I'm rubberin' around for
feed-box Information and gets next to a
guy who has a horse that was trained with
sorie world-beaters and lost his heart. He
was fast. but quit when they overhauled
little til tramp Dna aaH y Aye s2gs he: a Weazen-faeed
in that fellow, All. he wants is a bet put
down for him. That looks pretty good and
l cons the owner to let him fix the horse
up. He tips of something. about a French
elixir. One day we has the horse entered
In q race. He's beaten a city block. Then
the works went In for another race a day
or two later. The little fellow shows up
with his syringe and gives the horse a dose
just before he went ont. I wasn't or. to what
It was. but the way that animal pranced Ia
the post made me like him.. We gets our
and when they break the old horse burns up
the track. He Just kept goin' and never
lfaltered: He had gameness and. speed and
elixir, as l thought It was. Well. we win
sls e u 81 - ~ ~ PAYS vs. !, , sesd n Price Il .a a:
! S Il nS Ssa:ssss@ d RsSsef later aui 5ss him h IL S sfta
q coIf----sl0t to make q killing. The pre-
scrip 6eA.tn;t go with the horse and he ran
j SSssasl9 Ihsn' up phf n the 2 sta Sslch and T n,
kinds AZ Kicks Is made. He nearly gets
ruled on for losing his wad and begs us to
take him back. II was a,great cop. but ]
this dope business"
That was pretty good" chimed in a sheet
writer. 'but1 know q funny one that didn't
and q ~well-known sport. Of New York was
and picked out an old dog that hadn't done
low who engineered the deal said he knew
the prescription, and as his father was a
veterinarian he agreed to make It himself.
with a pill big enough to choke q hippo
potamus..
When that get. to working in him. said
ne ie u %,,,a that nat. oid a. sleepy horse will be
well. 1t was administered all right. and
the sport bet SIoo on him at 3 and 9 to 1.
Then they went. up In the stand to see the
race. They were at the post q few minutes
+; and the horse broke about ninth In q field
of ten or eleven. He ranged along with then
until rounding the far turn. when he Start
ed to move up,
" It's working now said the pill manipu-
lator. in his seat well up in the stand. Now
watch that old boy tear down that Held
II nearly did It. but when the pill ex-
ploded he got mixed In his direction, and
with one bound knocked two horses of their
track, running like q house afire. He fnai-
~ jumped the fence, and when they rot
him In the stable he collapsed. He never
| lime my. betting friend got tangled up with
the hop