The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-05-18
WOMEN KNOW THE HORSES now
DON'T DEFEND on INSPIRATION
~ NAMING BETS.
An riunxei on tr,ptegram the Other
Ia, ami Iit the och Hard h
l0r WIN Calm. Too 4 Dress
makers s,st~m-Forser, by \ IN

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'The MAJORITY Of the women In the stand
used - 10 dol!a- piker,. but they're mol
IA more said a bookmakers' runner
who ha- been laying odds In the racctracs
grand STANDS for many years The women
Of to-day who 20 after the horse game
Af. disposed To- get down for keeps on the
runners that they like
Plenty 81 them are more ncrvv with
tn ir money, particularly II the money
velvet, than some fellows ! could mention
who've so' regulations A. pluuzers There
was n chorus woman at the track the other
day who had a thoroughbred manner Il
going the distance
Tommy Burns, the jock. had told her
that he was going 20 have the leg up on
-four ~ them that afternoon. and that he
didn't soc anv reason Why sh" shouldn't
put them all over Some q: these mounts
81 BgnIs's looked .ihc imposAbihtic~. at
thai
The choru, woman put down 81 on
the nr-, mount Il tie Nhituey rider. and
Purns's hurs" walked in She strIng all
Of her winnings along un Hurus'~ next ore,
an outsider. and the horse romped home
-Rurns's next one lookei like such a no.
good In the ,hr'r-hur-e field that he went
to the stick the raw recruit at 1? TO / Tho
chorus girl had all - her winnings on the
two previous rac,- down on that one, and
Burns's horse tow-rored Tho field and made
the ? to 8 favori'. look sicN
Burns, fourth hor~a was the ~favorite
The horS" was a natural isvori'c on last
years form. but lookci high in fiesh TO the
paddock -harps, and not ready The
chorus v0nau'- escort was pretty good
st sizing up a horse bv his looks. and no
got back to the stand a. she was handing
her 81 40 winnings over 20 one q The stand
commissioner to le nat down on the Burns
favorite
You'd bcttcr fold that bundle awav
for to-day, he said to her I don't think
Tommy expects 20 bunch this one home
The horse i hog.fat and leeds al least thrpe
races before he'll do Think Of 81 90 worth
Of millinery, AMI LEI th.s one run for Hen
messy
'she rad her nerve along with her. how
ever. and wouldn't listen. The whole 81 ?o
went down on Burrs's horse-and YOU
know lts a track axiom that Burns doesn't
have much luCk with fayortes.
This ole was never la the hunt and I'm
ished In the ruck The girl wasn't a little
hit pecvish over rho ~outcoine-e end in the OH
days I've seen women faint over the loss
Of a two-dollar note She tossed Il OF with
q laugh and said -he'd have TO buy another
dream book
The -ticklns.a- pin 70 in-thc- programme
system il one that the women bet'ors
passed up long ago. Nor do they 20 after
the horses that look handsome, or cute Or
just lovely, a. so many Of them used 10.
-Four women bej,ors out ~ five want to
have a loo at the horse they have In mind
70 play before they put their money down.
An intelligent woman has a pretty fine eve
for a racehore-'hey'r re much better in
that reepeCt than most men. They secm
20 he able intuitlvelv TO perceive when a
horre h dry or tucked up or stale. and for
this reason they very rarely land on Q hcrse
that's liable 10 prove a dead one from any
Of these ceuse.
The ~grandstand women eave the ring |
. savage scor, hing only last week he, ause
Of the advantage thcv Possessed bv their
constant presence In the staud during tho !
Afternoons racing II was a ,hree-horse
race IN which they sCUr"d 40 heavily.
Bonner. one 81 PittsbuTg phll's horses
that hadn't been out SINCE last year. when
he was q whole lot Of a sprinter. was in
With a pair that he seemed, according to
the dope, to outclass by the weigh, Of q
bale Of hay 1hese two we're Musidora
and '~ryp'usram
The piInscrs ate up Bonner's opening
price. ! . ?. and battered II down to a
- aie worse than +; - , al pest time Even
P.tisburg Phil. for some reason that nobody |
could aiicrward understand, considering
the shaI-. hls horse Vas IN, bet thousands
on Bonner MusidoTa, a platter that dcesn {
amount 70 much. averaged about ? 10 / in
the t-'tting. aud Cryptogram, with Burns
had :, To- ! against huz chance.
Bu' when The thre horses we're brought
out tor their waTm-ups The women In Tho
X ni"r was .n bad shape. whereas Nusl- ,
q "a n her preliminary showed a distinct
~ lHa'Ipn to l'af 1u her ex"rCis. boy
t~rypt"gram. he outs der, on the contrary. |
went through rs whrm-up can,er N race
horse style. anu ia" women went TO Cryp-
togram h"oh, In. and sinkcr. notw.th-
e'aldIng th" apparent hor-lcsnesss q hls
a- tatoArn-d 10y the long odds
Nul "A scattering len, not even do1sns
or s-.r,.. bll literally hundreds Of In.
wou.rr IN ~" stand 'GrrSd themselves, A.
N" -aNing i 10 tst ~ trvptogiam. ala
To-. aus" Tommy ~ rns wa up. either,
tut i 'p.y ~ aus they had --n that the
fa,pIl'c AID -'Csrd ouuice w-f' nj up to a
brulsius race III" ren didTf observe
Bonner Ia o." cnudi'inn until tho horses
went 10 the prsl, and hen II was too ate
for 'uctn wl,u they rushed into he Tiug
To l'dg" - "a the te-t-looking amin a.
81 nv mo, I. 'u'pgt am, ih'v found hat
the huuhi's .'lnf want anv more money
tha' o." 'hc vof'.n IN the stand had
seHt % nI'h uprey down On ~Crvptogrsm
Tho woUru's J''~'u,e IA The stand
enah"d them TO g. ~ right Bonner
dnf rIn fas' enough 80 D. ad a heifcr
w a grassy IHne. and Musldpia was .opk-
Ing Tor a Knot hoe ia tine i"uHr t.fore the
sprint Was hat over
Then ~tnp'"gIaw, a hf horse. even :
he was uuto.a.-d, cane along and won
Just Ike "a Sd, -" cut-up never heard
~ many s"rrar ing women b-fone as when
gram rpuIs-d IN. AID ~ wcp all
busy iur d." rst Of The Afternoon handing
IN" au.u"u f.piry
4 good many - tho women hettor. are
great students o: the duIe charts They
briuG quantities - Mo carefully ,u' and
sorted durv aong wi'h them. pick out
quiet corners uf IA" stand. AID porr over
the pa-t performance ik" 49, many ~m-
H. AIRY Girls studying for examinations
'No' a few Of them have d.v'ioJ-d most
elaburst" haudicapp,ng systems OF their
own There a dressnak'r who j. pari-
cu arly we'll known 20 theatrical people be-
cau-. ~" uak"- "a" stag" clothes of a
QfVa' many Hrf rpSrss. who sticks 80 closely