Omaha daily bee., 1902-06-29

THAT'S Just old Haisell's style, all right"
chimed In Clinton Briggs. land your story
.about:him reminds me of a trick old Gen
erat Bill Turner did at Rochester, N. Y.
some years ago. {! The general was as foxy
as. any Of them and he holds undisputed the
reputation of having made more money
racing than any horseman.." He always
drove his own animals. and a little scheme
he worked with a sorrel mare will show you
how 1t was that he always came out ahead
finally and how patient and persistent he
was to gain an end. This sorrel was a
trotter and the general. had carried her
with his stable for three seasons straight.
In. that time she had never been In the
money once and was always just inside the
flag or else outside Of It entirely.
p IAN these three years the general was
paying race entry fees on the mare and
not getting a cent back, but he was simply
following out a preconcived plan, as turned
out finally. The denouement to the scheme
came at. Rochester, where they were having
big crowds, big betting and big, purses.
The general could, Of course, always get
the marc In the low classes. for she had
never done a. thing. This time he had her
entered for a good stake and in the first
heat she barely escaped the flag. A friend
came out to the general sympathizingly
and advised him to take the horse off for
good, saying she had never done a thing
In three years and never would.
We'll, It takes time to learn EN- to CO.
RESPONDED the general, and / guess I'll have
a little more patience with her. Then he
went over and found that the price on the
sorrel had gone up from 4 to 1 to 10 to 1.
A few minutes later half a dozen men
Jumped In all some $50. 900 on the mare at
those figures. When the next heat was
called none Of the. other entries nor the
crowd expected anything from that horse
and aid not even notice her. But when the
bunch rounded into the stretch the mare
with 1t and she pulled away a winner
at the wire. For the next two heats the
story was the same and a suspicious crowd
surrounded the general at the end.
"'Wal, I never seen her go afore,' said
he, and I'll never ask her to again. She's
won me a race at last And he stuck to it.
The sorrel was never started again and
the general had put the price OF six farms
on her thai day For three years he had
steadfastly pulled her In every race, just
waiting for her name to get so worthless
as to be invaluable to him"
Here old Sumner Bruen behind a
sweet gated little bay mare" said Ernest
James. who had happened In. and you can
bet Sumner will show some OF that same
crafty work. He always has something up
his sleeve. But there is q regular old Bob
Kneebs type OF driver for you. At least he
was when l knew him in the '90s. Nothing
could stop him. He was absolutely reek-
less. over In Iowa they called him Sumner
Bruen OF Logan Chief fame and they re-
late of him that once when he was driving
Logan Chief they pOcketed him in the
stretch, and he simply leaped onto Logan
Chiefs back and rode right over the bunch,
dragging a wrecked cart behind him, but
leading at the wire. He has had many keen
experiences. In 80 he drove the famous
Belle ] all season and won two heats with
her OF the great Merchants and Manufac-
turers' SO, 900 stake at Detroit. He sold the
mare for s. $500 to an Australian in 'ss. This
fellow took her to Australia, where she
captured the record and still holds IT,"
\ N"Do you know who hat is that Just took
Bruen's horse?" queried John s. Adams OF
Genoa. why, that old Billy West Of Fort
Madison. He was swipin' the famous Judge
B In 90, but Just this last winter l ran
across him cooking in a hotel In Iowa some
where. Now / see he's swipin' for Bruen.
West was always a valuable man around a
stable. When he was rubin Judge B,
Charley Philips was driving the grand old
horse. The other day l saw Charley driving
a laundry wagon here in Omaha Just forty
years that man spent In the horse business.
He was noted once. for be drove Judge B to
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