The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-07-27
RACING COUPS THAT FAILED.
CtREFtIIi PIt>NED INNINGS
RrINTD NJ NISu ~.
Hard New aday. To surprise the isesh.
maker. - Narrated Dfd the oth~r
Ds, rh.t-aris lest h, q change
sf Name est OF a f'rbbir >rr-
,sus ItersS's Nischanee VI tatsnia.

An oli- fashtuu.d kllug vas wtis 80
Rnehtun Rssch last week bv blly Blrr,,A
Tom NanniS. " N Lang and on- ~ we
other heavy bsttof- on the hur. Warranted.
Thee. n.n pullcd out an amount ~vafipu-ls
estimated at from t7s,Ooo To- siU uS ga the
hurss's victory
At IN. track the horS. Mas hacked lruun
~ to To- : To- 1 after the puulroum muu,,
had b,sr got down at a long figure \
few Outsiders, Who remembered that Wa
rant,l had Won a swell lnug-di~tancr staIr
race at Benninss last fall. helped 10 halter
IA. price dow u al the track and Won hand
rom-ly
That Warranted trick. remarked a
wrll-knuvu turfman 10 ~ eastrg uf the
| r,ce. 'vss ono 20 tho-c suc~rsshi cuuI =
that body hears about Few hear
shout the nine Other CRp'f.lN fraiucd-up
killing, uut - 10" ten that inil - ~ thrnugh
when a really bis operation IL sucr~-
fully put under. A.. for in-'aho-. when
pnv- Gideon pounded tho ring Tor siOo.o0o
on his Nlly Juscuha last wear. all hands
hear or read about II. and rhe-c things
make recruits for the turf The killings
MAX. the game look inviting and easy.
and the fresh money of people who ara
fascinated bv ia" accounts u the great
| Coups drifts To the bookies' satchel-.
Il won't -ay that its about ~ hard for
a mar born IN 1870 20 get a total disability
pension FOR participating IN the ba''le -
Gettysburg A. ~ IL to pail ~ q -ucr's-tul
hog rlau shtcring ou a rac-tracS owadays,
but | don't mind mentioning In confidence
that the people Tho fetch thruu gh n sue
ccs-ful hor-c killing At this stage - III"
raCirg game have ut To- L. mighty slick aud
they've got to have aWhol" lot 10 luck. ls-
sides. It's not now like il was IA the I'D DAYS.
when tho owner II an improved horse tha,
had bccn held in rcsarve for n cuup could
lring the beas, out on ~" track. give hin
n slap, tell the jockey 20 fetch the animal
along home b. N" air line and then stroll
into the ring and collect.
ANY one OF a thousand things can fattcn
. PREPARED coup MT Ike n piece q roof tin
NOWADAYS The railbiris IN NE first place
have got tho killing pretty nigh copp"rrd
Nothing g-'s away from them ~ any track
from dawn's early light And even n the
word doesn't leak the battle between the
PLAYERS and no layers has nov reached
such All acute stage that the bows With 'hr
states hcrin % rub the minute a man whose
face they know starts 20 make The rounds
on any horse with \ price chalkci mp against
him
Not only his, hnt 'hr most fooli-h Itch"
mishap can utterly destroy all possibility
81 pulling ~ a kill e that has been -~hrrwilv
and carefully planned and WORKED over,
night and day, Tor mon'hs
a few wears nro that Sse mare f1eur-
d~-Lv. NJ. brought Fast if'"r a successful
campaign On tho California tracks. for a
killing There were fewer milt,ri- then
than there are nov. and none 81 them caught
the workout
TN. marc wa pitChforked, with nothing
worth mentioning In the way 81 weight
with a lot - svarger hors,-, which made
a good price against her "a certainty. Hor
| penple designed 20 blister the Dig poolroom-
Throughout, Tho country on The win, and -
thev sent their commissioners 20 various
points With tho money a couple 81 days
wow a short time before the dAv ~ the
| contemplated killing tho owner - tho rnSf"
60, remission. for som" reason pr ether,
10 change her name from Fl"ur-de-lys
Ia Maxine Tho commissioners who had
gone Ne-, and south with the hig money
10 hct on F~lcut-dc.Ivs didn't know any
thing about hts switch of her name to
! Maxine.
I, happened thu, tho ~poolrooms they
went TO failst 70 chalk formerly fleur-d"-
Tvs after rho name 70 Maxine, a. II DCCa-
slonaIly done In such cases. and so tho
| commissioners, concluding that Tor som"
reason nr other tho mare hadn't icon on
tered IN tho race hat wa 80 30 Tho Killing.
kept all - that fin F~leur-dc-LvS money
! right In thor clothes Well. I'll .sAve b 10
| an rboav to draw \ li''l, charcoal sketch e
| how those comuis- oncrs felt when 'h"
operators Ia tho poulruoTH-, after calling
IN the rNoo and Announcing that Maxine
| had strpil~d In som~'hing easy. with 20 20 |
about hcr chances. supplemented their call
IN NTH rho dry cWark, Maxim" Wa for
| mcrly cur-dN-lys
The Maxine party made n hlg thing ~
tho win NJ no rack, = course. lu' -utriN,al
n thing no their failurs 80 inform their com
mission~rs thu n change IA tie mars
namn had hem applied Tor COS, thcm a good
many t.n- - thousands ~ dollars
sOnly n coupe 81 years AZ n killing wns
all fixed on ono . the 'racTs around herr
that would have sizei mp. hnd II Ron"
through. alongside - tho tremendous and
hist ORC couIs on Maidstone, King tadmts
! and Ou~cnic Trovhridre. Athrc-v"ar-nld
that's now running like 4 goat On the Ne.t-
en tracks had he~n showing hts TcoTl"
| such remarkable speed in his works 'ha
| they decided go pun "A feather edge IN him
and a"nd him along for all a the money
on earth
.The horse hadn't raced sinrc tho pre-
edins wear, when his two-y.ar-old form
hadn't tspn s,Ioh a whole LOT ~ -care any
BODY. and they knew that 'heS'd b" 1iie
To- ~, n bundle a, hig ~ n piano lcg down
az Writc-your -own-tick"t prices II YVES
only cutting up Tor tho horse To streak
the mil" around tho Shecpshcnd track
Ia q " with u tig go~-uuu uf a stahle buy
t<-,riding him.. and the owner and trainer
and the few thR, were IN ON IN" hun w'r"
ALREADY spending the 20 TO I money on the
left rank of IA" Nile.
Trustworthy conmiss'ore r- w"rr liked
TO points all over ia" country with ~ much
money to slap on the good thing that they
had io walk lop-idcd. II they'd evcr got
ths, money down, "a whole lot az room
keepers ia the United States who arr nov
wearing -oup-pLate CANARY diamonds and
living easy. would hive b~n hutI.d So
far into the brnnhl~s 81 hus'edncs- thai
they'd nave ls-n climbing cut vet.
but. In tho progress oi a little 'oin,-
lml~rng cant~r around tho Coursc on tho
morning 81 the big dav tho hurs" that had
breczed tho mile with l?2 up o. tie morning
h~fore in O39i,. packed M a T"hhle in la-
nigh forehoof. and II was all "a tie cravl'd
into his shed 20 larns that he could hardly
walk, and hat CAV" tn" b~opknhk~r~ and
the poolroom folks another AtiH chanc"
for their white marble. The hor,H had
leon chuCked into his racn with ~ pounds
IN, and " that mean It'll" ACCIDENT hadn't
occurred and they'd got Tin To- the yn-t,
he'd havC teen luuking the Judges H. tho
eve Will" th" uth"rs IN the te4G wOIe round-