The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-07-02


not any more" said a Dookmaker's rum
ner who had been laying odds in the
race track grand stands for many years,
to New York Sun representative. 1.-THE
women of today who go after the horse
game are disposed to get down for keeps
on the runners that they like
Plenty of them are more nervy with
tEeir money, particularly if the moneys
velvet, than some fellows 1 can mention
Whove got regulations as plungers. There
" as a chorus woman at the track the 9TH
er day who has a thoroughbred manner
of going the distance.
Tommy Burns, the jock, had told her
that he was going to have the leg up on
four of them that afternoon, and that he
didn't see any reason why she shouldn't
put them all over. Some of these mounts
of Burns lookeu like imposslDilities, at
that.
1.-THE chorus woman put down $40 on
the first mount of the Whitney rider, and
Burns horse walked in. She strung All
OF her winnings along on Burns next
one, an outsider, and tie horse romped
home
Burns next one looked like such
no-good in the three-horse field that he
went to the stick the raw recruit at u
to 1. The chorus girl had all of her win
nings on the two previous races GOWN on
that one, and Burns horse tow-roped the
field and made the to favorite look
sick
Burns fourth horse was the favorite
The horse was a natural favorite on last
years form, but looked high in flesh to
the paddock sharps, and not ready. The
chorus woman's escort was pretty good
at sizing up horse by his looks, and
he got back to the stand as she was hand
ing over her $1,000 winnings over to one
OF the stand commissioners to be put
down on the Burns favorite.
You'd better fold that bundle away
for today he said to her. 4 don't think
Tommy expects to bunch this one home
The horse is hog-fat and needs at least
three races before he'll do. Think of
$1,000 worth of millinery, and let this one
run for Hennessy.'
She had her nerve along with her how
ever, and wouldn't listen The whole ST.
200 went down on Burns horse-and you
know it's track axiom that Burns
doesn't have much luck with favorites
This one was never in the hunt and
finished in the ruck. The girl wasn't a
little bit peevish over the outcome-and
in the old days I've seen women faint
over the loss of 81 note. She tossed it
off with laugh, and said she'd have to
buy another dream book
The sticking pin -the-programm
system is one that the women bettors
passed up long ago. Nor do they go after
the horses that look handsome, or cute
or just lovely as so many of them used
to.
-Four woman betters out Of five want
to have a look at the horse they have
in mind to play before they put their
money down. An intelligent woman has a
pretty fine eye for a race horse-they're
much better in that respect that most
men. They seem to be able intuitively to
perceive when a horse is dry or tucked
up or stale, and for this reason they very
rarely land on horse that's liable 10
prove dead one from any of these
causes
"The grandstand women gave the ring
a savage scorching only last week be-
cause of the advantage they possessed by
their constant presence in the stand dur
ing the afternoons racing. 1t was a three
horse race in which they scored so heav-
lily.
Bonner one of Pittsburg Pills horses
that hadn't been out since last year. when
he was a whole lot Of a sprinter, was in
with a pair that he seemed, according TO
the dope, to outclass by the weight of a
bale of hay. These two were Musidora
and Cryptogram.
''The plungers ate up Bonner's opening
price, l to 2, and battered it down to a
shade worse than l to at post time. Even
Plttsburg Phil, for some reason that no
body could afterward understand, consid-
ering the shape his horse was in bet
thousands on Bonner. Musidora, a platter
that doesn't amount to much, averaged
about to 1 in the betting, and Cryptic
gram, with Burns up, had u to 1 against
his chance.
But when the three horses were brought
out for their Warm-ups the women in the
stand didn't need half an eye to see that
Bonner was in bad shape, whereas Must
dora in her preliminary showed a dis
tinct inclination to loaf on her exercise
boy. Cryptogram, the outsider. on the
contrary, went through his warm-up can
ter in race-horse style, and the women
went to Cryptogram hook. line and sink
err, Notwithstanding the apparent hope
lessress of his chance as betokcned by
the long Odds
or scores, but literally hundreds OF the
women in the stand tapped themselves,
as the saying is, to bet on Cryptogram,
and not because Tommy Burns was up,
either, but simply because they had seen
that the favorite and second choice
weren't UP to bruising race. The men
didn't observe Bcnner's lame condition
until the horses went to the post and
then it was too late for them-when they
rushed into the ring to hedge off on the
best-looking animal of the trio. Cryptic
gram, they found that the bookies didn't
want any more money on that race-the
women in the stand had sent too much
money down on Crytcgram.
1.-THE wonens presence in the stand
enabled them to get it right Bonner
couldn't run fast enough to head heifer
UP a grassy lane. and Musidora was look
ing for a knot hole in the fence before
the sprint was half over.
Then Cryptogr9m, a fit horse even il
he was outclassed, came along and won
just like a village cut-up. l never heard
so many screaming women before as
when Crytcgram rcmned in. and we were
all busy for the rest Of the afternoon
handing the won en- m oney.
"a great many of the women bettors
are great students of the dope charts.
and serted dope along With them. pick
out quite corners of the stand and pore
over the past perform anceS like so many
seminary girls studying for examina-
mot a few Of them nave deyeloped
most elaborate handicapping systems uf
their own. There's a dressmaker who is
particularly we'll known to theatrical peo-
pie because she makes the stage clothes
of a great many actresses. who sticks
so closely to her extremely involved and
difficult har6icarring system that her
women friends guy her great deal.
But the guying never swerves her
from the rigidity of her determination to
stick to her own private system OF figur-
ing out the horses chances. She does
all of her handicapping at her home be
fore starting for the. track. and when
she has got all Of the races figured ont
in accordance with her system, She
writes on slip paper the names cf
the horses just as they ought to finish.
according to her calculations. and plays
them that way every time.
Her figures are prettN good. to-. a0.i
she wins oftener than she loses but her
systerT Is great joke arnong tho ~'o~- On
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