The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-06-02
Stable Records Show That 1t Is a
Matter of Trying to
Win.
CLUB MEMBERS ACCEPTANCES.
Owners Are Due to Accept Weights
in the Big Stake To-Day
Schreiber Leads the
Winning.

has been exceptionally free from faint this
Season. OF course, the big fields have been
full of "sleepers"-that is. horses that were
in For work and not trying a lick at any
part OF it. But every one was priority &C
q~uainted with this fact. As the "sleepers''
never figured contenders, 1t was more or
less all right. As long as the cOntsndersa are
trying and doing their best the bettor Is
fortunate.
But when they turn up one like that 2
year-old Claude last Saturday 1t Is time
something was doing among the highbind-
ers. They started this colt twice prior TO
Saturday. First time he ran last in a far
worse field than he beat yesterday. Then
he ran seventh in a still worse race and was
beaten off by horses he beat last Saturday.
He worked fast prior to these races and
worked fast on a fast track.
OF course. the rields IN which he ran these
bad races were big ones. So was the one
in which he won. worse still. the track was
muddy. Then he was meeting better
horses than he ever met. OF course II
might be that in the luck of racing and the
natural variable feelings OF mammalian an
irlals he might have won anyhow. But how
Did his party know that he was going 10
met? How did they know that even II ne
was a good mudder he could beat Christine
A. a poorer star mud runner, Stand Pat
shown himself to be? How is it that. in
spite of all these things. they just backed
flm OH the DOdTuS, NOT Only IN 81. Lou-S'
but all over the country? OF course. the ex-
cuse will be. he is a stake horse in mud.
a dog on a dry track.r 1t is a good bet
the colt would have won farther on on the
dry track thar he did in the mud.
The owner of Claude. Mr.. 8. c. Wagner.
owns a race track in Chicago. Judge Brady
string there. Two seasons of him at st.
Louis have been a glorious plenitude.
L SAINTS SOAKED H BETrERS
All Saints's race gave the sucker bet
TORS a fit on SATURDAY. They did not reCOE-
nize the fact that she was in out Of her
distance at seven furlongs, and in a field or
OF place. In the first place. Mr.. danger
field Is dead lucky to be able to get her into
a selling race. She properly belongs among
Peaceful. Maximus and that lot. Only one
occasion has given a taste of her real quail
ity. Then she was not half let out. She
not bet on her or on another horse in a race
where she Is a competitor. She is a marc
of high-ciass. Her owner is not getting
work out of her in winning purses OF
course. she has won several times at nice
in fields where she had no business
being entered. A few hundred dollars placed
at 8 to l means many a purse.
Concertina, the other member of the Dam
gerfteld stable. has been as inconsistent as
All Saints ain ;nG 9ne s 5he galoPs home m f han,
o. Precisely. A few days later Precisely
beats her a block. 1t was plain that she
was badly ridden by Singleton on this oc-
casion, but these things cannot be helped.
So far the royal purple. pink sleeves and
cap-famous colors on the American race
~track-enjoy the distinction of being on the
most Inconsistent horses seen at the Fair
Grounds this year.
WHY R THESE STABLES CONSIST
Talking of Inconsistency it is pleasant to
speak OF consistency. Look at the stable
of w. W. Darden & Co. Why is 1t so con-
good and the owners are always trying.
Look at the Schneider stable. 1t is the
same way. Look at the Hayes stable. at the
McCarren stable. The horses of these
stables are just as liable to the ills and to
the changes to which hcrsefiesh is heir, TO
bad luck in races. to bad rides, to every
thing. Yet why are they so consistent?
Put aside all this corn-cob logic about luck
and the horse not being a machine. and
h . ard Fortune 3b,un in Tb races Ss and this: that and the
rem horses are Just as liable to all these
things as any others.
The great secret of their consistency Is
that they are trying. trying. all the time
trying. Pass up the luck and the old stale
stuff about do you feel good every day?
No Amt there some days you feel better
than others? So is it with a horse"
Men who work know one thing. Whether
they feel good or bad If they have to do
to do it. they do ii. So it is with a horse.
If he has. got to do. he will do IT. OF
course in horses and men there are excep-
or the other is made to do it he does, feel
ing good or bad.
Consistency is a mere matter of trying. |
CriEean. Brulare, A. D. Gibson, J. Sidney
Walker, Dewey. SchwaIbe. W~allabout.
GlenwOod: Buccleuth. Lakeytew Belle and
sick. TO be feeling bad, to be bumped in
races. to be badly ridden. to take q
or Claude? Why do they not
take them.
Consistency can be compelled from men
and from horses in a more or less certain
dpPTea If ShOrrId ha COnna1ed ~ both
Acceptances Due for Club Members.
The feature of the racing at the Fair
the historic Club Members Handicap. next
Saturday afternoon. This stake has always
been run on the first Saturday in June since
greatest thoroughbreds in the history of
the American turf have won this stake.
Wadsworth beat Aloha in the first Club |
showed the way home for Ray S. and other |
good ones in 1893. Ray 8. finished second |
again in 1894. being placed to Yo Tambien. |
turing the stake. clifford won the club
Handicap of 1895. shoulderine the |
terrific impost Of i23 pounds and stepping |
time still stands as the track record as we'll
as the record for the race. Wadsworth's |
Clp Members, Handicap was the most val
liable in the history of the stake. This year |
It will be worth more than it has been Ia
many years. The association adds s2.OOO and |
horsemen have supported the stake so lib-
orally that the indications are it win be
worth in the immediate neighborhood Of
1900.
Ar~entarces for the stake are due to-day. /
Lady Strathmore and the 3-year- |
BIDS Terra Ffrma and Dewey are in great /
favor with horsemen to win the stake. but
Monograph is shipped here from Brook
to start, the son of Margrave will
probably go to the post a strong fayorIte.
This horse belongs to VIII HAYES. a
brother of the redoubtahle T. P. Hayes.
Monograph ran a magnificent race in the
Brooklyn Handicap and is thought to be
The best Western horse shown In the East
spring. Captain r. r. Rice has been
-esting up Wax Taper for the Club Mem
eers' Handicap. II the famous son OF
randelmas has recovered his spring form
he NAV be able to make IL interesting for
aven the record-breaking Maxfmus AMI
Monograph. Fred Cooks good horse. Om-
iurman is another probable starter in ne
Club Members Handicap tina dopes to cut
IN important figure in the contest III he
should go TO the post fit and ready. This
lorse showed a high-class performer
lround Chicago last fall. Doctor Holt
srewe of North st. Louis has both Hot
.entot and Pinochle in the stake. Hottentot
xon the stake last year, while PipochIe
captured II In 1900. Doctor Holtsrewe viii
tart one or the other next Saturday.
Long-Distance Events n Feature. /
Programmer Magfnn has two steepls-hase
Iaces on the card for this week Anofhar