The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-06-23
This Afternoons Card Offers BIT
One Bet That Promises Any
thing Like Success.
FIFTH EVENT IS A BEAUTY,
Everyone of the Fourteen Horses
Entered Has a Chance TO Win
Ida Ledford Looks Like
d Safe Bet.

Just how so many evenly matched nors'
can get into races SO nearly weighted is a
problem that Fair Grounds race-goers can
not solve. On to-day's card there seems TO
be just one bet that can be made with a
chance for success. That is Ida Ledford in
the last race. In the NTH race there are
fourteen horses, every one Of them with a
good chance TO win.
It is simply impossible to pick them In
any but the sixth race. Take the first
event, for instance. Avoid. Mindora and
Luralighter should be TO l each and take
your pick. Avoic looks best ON what races
she has run here. but Luralighter has some
brilliant races 10 her credit at Louisville
and Latonis- In muddy going she will
surely win. Nindora simply cautered five
furlong5 in los on a bad track on Saturday.
He likes a fast track and he is taking of
a lot OF weight to-day. He is a good-!ooker
and evidently a great colt. At a price he
f. the best bet Of the lot in good going.
But it is an awful hard race. and the
favorite should be 3 TO I.
Alfalfa, Navarinc. Herodes. Doralice Lulu
Flight. Luna Minor and Mr.. Timberlake all
have an even chance in the second race.
On races Navarino IS best. Mr.. Undertake
went SuspiciouSly fast last time out and
looks like a good colt among this lot. Hero
NNS ~ va So VII 49, 0 NSN '@I~N
will give Navarino a chance. Alfalfa has
been running with better horses than these
and leading them, too. So she has a chance
that is brightest. This race is a case Of
10 TO l and take your pick.
Gilbert, Loone and Larry Wilt will fight
1t out In the third event. 1t will be, very
close all around. LOone's early speed Will
help her out of bad jams and she should
win. though Gilhert's last race with her
gives him a license to beat her. Loone
InnkC ill., fhA hhET hot
Mynheer. on his race with Maximus, Lady
Strathmore and that lot when MaXimus
broke the track record for a mile and twen-
ty yards; gives him a cinch on the fourth
event if he will but run TO his race
The chances are that ii was a fiuke and
that he will not come anywhere near it, In
this case Grantor should win. Kitty Clyde
can beat Grantor with a good boy up, but
she cannot take up Jones and win again.
On many races that he has run. Free
Coinage can win the fifth But his good
ling showed a rare turn of speed in the mud
on Friday, and they bet on her as If it vas
all in. She Will be a contender to-day. Joe
Lesser will find the distance, more TO his
liking than those at which he has been run
ming: Louis Wagner, Wild Katie, Hazel
Hughlett and Verify all have chances. In
deed. there Is not a horse in the fifteen that
has not a chance to win. If this is not a
remarkable race there never was one. Fiji
teen horses' all with a chance to be first!
Ida Ledford should beat Cogswell. Lefare
and Eda Riley In the last event. She is a
2-to-l shot, and should win handily with a
good ride.
They're the most superstitious men on
earth. are racing men," once said Sir Joseph
Hawley. one of the foremost sportsmen that
eyes are ever peeled, watching for some
sign or other which he may connect with a
horse for which he has a fancy.
The famous General Hicks once made a
heap of money out of such a sign. He vas
stopping at Hatchett's on his return from
TattersalPs on the Monday, just preceding
the Derby of 1856. when he happened to no
tice that the in the title of yelling
tons restaurant displayed opposite was OBJ
liberated. Without a moments hesitation he
rushed from the hotel, ana. hailing a nan
som, was soon bowling back 10 Tattersalrs
How much Ellington" he cried to ev-
cry "bookie'' he could find, and nearly every
penny he had went on the horse;
Ellington won, and General Hicks attrib-
ntee his luck to the sign with the iost"W:"
But General Hicks was q firm believer in
omsns and signs, Once, while driving to his
born. IT stopped right opposite Ely place.
5ove!' exeiaimed the General TO
days the Goouwood Cup day, and Ely's a
cert" Thereupon he told his cabman 10
drive to his bookmaker.
his usual breezy way. And he got s 10 /
as many times as he liked. He took a bet
Of ESQ to foo. and, strangely enough, Ely
won the race in a common cante-
Whenever Lord Rosebery runs his horses
at EPSON. his employees assemble in force
to cheer his winners or bemoan his losers.
one Of the menservants on the Durdans es-
tate a rose and primrose culored tie. With
out this mascot Lord Rosebery's en-
ployes will not transact a bet. They be-
But the tie mascot is not restricted only
TO the ex-Premier's servants. There are
scores OF racing men who bet by their
tie as they term 1t. If. when wearing
centiOnaly lucky bpf that tia 60 thptr slrNk
tie" and they continue to wear it until tina
luck changes, when they discard it for an
To ass 3 red-haired person. and then not
to SEGA white horse for two minutes af-
forwards. when driving 10 a race meeting.
is one OF the most unlucky omens that can
happen to d party Of racing men. Hun
dreds of TURTLES who like TO have their
make a bet during the day that such Wis
tation occurs.
EBut perhaps the most childish supersti-
tion of all. and yet the most sacredly kept,
Is the field glass superstition.
IF you by chance look through the wrong
end OF your feld-Riasses. don't bet again
towering not far of. waiting for the mug"
q betting man will say.
Many a big bet has been made owing to
the similarity in the name of the horse to
that of the bettor: but this form of sfgn-
betting is more particularly connected with
In 1899 General Peace won the Lincoln
shire Handicap, and Manifesto the Grand
NdtlOnal SteepleCDaSe. Thousands of
pounds were won by the superstitious bet
ting men over those two races. BY an ex-
traordinary coincidence. the two races were
run very shortly after the Car of Rus
STA had issued his general peace manifesto
to the world. This was sufficient grounds
for an enormous number of bets TO be
made, coupling the two horses FOR a double.
Flying Fox's Derby was one OF the most
sensational Derbys ever won. According to
men In the know" there were only two
horses in the race-namely, Flying Fox
and Holocaust--Rnd opinion was greatly
divided between the two. But sign bettors
refused to believe In the chances of a horse
with such a name as Holocaust. and as
events turned out they proved to be cor
rect.
Holocaust fell in <he moment Of victory.
and had to be shot immediately afterwards.
OF course, betting men attributed his
smashaup to the appropriate name the un-
fortunate horse was known by.-London
Answers.
.DOMINICK LEADS JOCKEYS.