The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-07-13
HOW ROARER WON THE RACE.
n Still Life and Went
Found
Whv Ex.Tank No. % Abandoned Studies in
into the Painting of Live Ones

chef d'oeuvre! His new bay hide shone
like the gloss OF the under side OF a
ravens wing, his pair Of white stocki-
nettes looked as if they'd just come from
the wash, and his handmade blazed fore
head was as pretty as the first appie-DloS-
som In the orchard!
"A pretty good-looker. that rank out
slider, Roarer, amt he?' said man
standing at the rail beside me.
| 81 was going to tell him that Roarer
ought to be q good-looker, considering
| that I'd made him that way myself. put
didn't. never was boastful. Instead,
| made a sprint. for the betting ring, ana
| found mat Roarer (carded on the pro-
gramme as never having raced before
was the long-shot in the field OF ten Hex
been played down from 10 to at the open
ing to 80 to l. I could have framed q
pretty foxy guess as to who'd pound
ed the original price, but I WASH t
guessing. didn't have time. I was too
busy getting 800 down at 80 to l against
Roarer.
.ttoarer walked home. All the way
through the stretch the boy on Roarer
had the horse in his lap. making the goo
goo eyes ct him, and feeding MN marsh
ma llows. He was thirty lengths III 'front.'
of his field all the way, ana won, pulled
double and sideways, in just a common,
onnery jog. The other good horses III tnS
race were Clydesdales to Roarer; ana
wnen he pulled up after his record nllis
Roarer wasn't breathing hard eliou t's.n
| to snuff CSrls-mus Tree candle heio Two
inches from bis postrils. There was some
dclibara.ir-~ b. lao stewards. but they
Roa t haA N,s 9.tY entered, his name
was down IN the turf-guides with MS
sires and dams all the way back, and
the stewards had simply to take MN
tirmed. There wasn't knob upon when
they could hang a howl. The red board
was slid up underneath the mum befs-ahi
! was just 5000 TO the GOOD Tor havins
AIKEN the advice Of a. red-halreet. sawed
,ff man to abandon making STU nie PIC.
! turen for g livelihood ! colleSteso r ina.
more money than I'd ever heard OF be-
fore the days racing was over.
Come out to the barn tomorrow
night said g voice behind me as got
out OF the gate, and when l turned the
little red-haired man was walking in the
other direction, chewing on olaoe o.
grass.
recountcd the story of a great Latonia
coup, whereby the owner named RoareI
had slaughtered the Latonia bookmakers
as well as the poo-rooms t th1oIgnout t. the
whole United States to the tune OF
couple hundred thousand.
II went out to the stable of the little
red-haired man that night. ana touno
an an ea ai grin on the sawed-off's map.
:. TYSON second thought said he,
scra tching his head rehectively. don't
believe I like this here horse Of mine IN
bay clothes. Amt SO becoming that way
as thought he'd be- Better come around
tomorrow night and turpentine him
back to a chestnut, and I'll go you an
other $500 for the job
81 scraped the horse back to his right
hue the next night. and about a month
later l saw him win a crackajack race
at the ST. Louis Fair Grounds from STAKE
Ic,,f SC M "
II was his own name-a name that would
make the owners Of selling-platers don
their bonnets.
"Thats how I happened to reach the
conclusion that still-life work was dog s
cared deuce in a dingy deck compared
with the painting Of live ones ones and , !
never went back to 1t from the hour the
little red -head taught me the fooiishness
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