Waterbury Democrat., 1902-08-04
WITH THE HORSES.
Lord Derby Wins the Big Race After
 Bora1ma Was Injured.


 Bora1nla Was Injured.
 Fifteen thousand people saw the race at Hartford Saturday when Lord Derby won from Boralma by default. Boralma took the first heat in POS, Lord Derby the second ia 2:0915 and the third in PISA. Tn this heat Bo- ralma had cut his forward left tendon nearly in two, and he was withdrawn from the race. Lord Derby then went the fourth heat alone in 3:44.
 Almost all of the match races for Sbig money turn out somewhat disap- pointingly, but at that they bring to- gether the fastest horses, whose per- forIaances have made them promin- ent, and the horse loving public will patronIEe such contests as long as they are made. In the match race be- tween LoEd Derby and Bora1ma at Hartford on Saturday, while the finish in neither heat was close, the real dis appointment was the fact that the time was not faster.
 After the second heat in that race observing horsemen< saw that the Bos- ton horse was gone. He showed that he was dead tired. and. but little mon- ey was wagered on his chances. Ev- eryone saw that it was all up with him, and had he not unfortunately cut his ankle to the bone in the third heat the result would not have been changed.
 After the race Az Welch, proprie- tor of the Charter Oak track, said that the time, which had been such dts appointment to the crowd, was really faster than he had expected to see, be- cause the track, which on the surface appeared to be good and fast to the casual observer, was really slow. 1t had been soaked by rain, and while it looked to be well dried out the clay under the top dressing was wet and heavy.
 In the exhibition mile by Lord Der by, after his walkoyer in the fourth heat, he trotted easily in POS with a running prompter, but could have gone faster had he been asked to do it. E. E. Smathers. his owner, said yester- day that, when he told the judges that he would allow his horse to go an ex- hibition mile, George Spears, his train CT, strenuously objected, and endeav- ored to get Ed Geers to side with him.
 Spear said that the horse might be lnJAlLu SO LIdL AC WOuAA HUI OC dOAC to go in his race against The. Abbot at the Brighton Beach track next week.
 "All right said MT Smathers, T have promised him for an exhibition mile and he will have to go it, if he never races again and I have to pay forfeit on his match with The Abbott
 MT Smathers was among the early arrivals at the Charter Oak track the morning of the race. He appeared to be the least interested man at the track. To see him chatting with his friends and telling them he thought lis horse would be pretty good, it could not be imagined that in an hour or two he stood to win or lose for tune
 As soon as the silver tongued Frank Herdic began to sell pools, he saun- tered into the betting ring and when Joe Pointer won the first race from Sphinx s, he was chatting with sever al women friends in one of the grand stand boxes as gaily as if he had won instead of lost $7,0OO on the race.
 When Boralma won the first heat and it looked as if there was a chance that he would lose upward of $6O,OOO, he was just as smiling and pleasant as if there was no such thing in the world as money. A telegraph boy passed him message while he sat in his box, stating that even money was being wagered on the stock exchange in New York on the big race. He cool ly wrote an order to take $10,000 worth at that price on his horse and resumed with his friends.
 Figuring up-the amount of the mon ey for which the match was made and the sum Wagered on his horse in the pool box, Mir Smathers won close to $75, ,O00, yet when he was seen in his apartments yesterday there was not the slightest sign of elation over his victory and he could not have been more unconcerned had his winnings been no more than a good cigar.
 Lord Derby will be shipped to New York today and will be quartered at the Empire City track. where MT Smathers will drive him to wagon at the matinee next Saturday regardless of the protestations of his trainer, race with The Abbot hext week.
 Arnold Lawson, son of the owner of Boralma, saw the race Saturday, put lie ulu uOL SDSCs OH tue Tdce u is said that the only money bet on Bo- ralma by Lawson representative was four tickets bought by Jack Roach.
 Frank Herdie sold $5O500 worth of auction pools from 12 o'clock to 4 at Hartford on Saturday. The most money was wagered on the Joe Point CT race, the first on the card. On his way to New York Saturday night MT Herdic dropped $500 from his pocket.
 The match race made by Mat Dem arest and Dave Lamar for $5,000 a side, between Marion Wilkes and The King, will be decided at the Brighton Beach track next week. A forfeit was posted in Hartford Saturday night with A. J. Welch.