The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-08-17

WRITTEN FOR THE SUNDAY REPUBLIC.
Deimar's record of winning favorites TO
| the last fifteen days of the summer meet
ing enabled the players to give the layers
! the worst lambasting they ever got on E
st. Louis race track Louis A. and Charles
j. Celia are said to AVE lost about $4,000
and Barney Schneider squandered 10000 in
a vain effort to knock down the favorites.
Virginia" Carroll. Jesse Hughes, Mark
Moore. Frank Carr. Perry and Enoch
Hughes were among the other big losers.
Moore. Carr. Perry and Enoch Hughes
found the game too speedy for them
and dropped OF. Perry, however, resumeu
booking again at Kinloch.
Booking has been an Improbable occupa-
ton for most OF the layers in the East this
season, also. Over one hundred layers were
In line at the early spring meetings on the
metropolitan tracks. but fully q third OF
this number fell by the wayside before Sar-
atoga opened The ring at Saratoga would
show the effects of so many bookies drop
ping of were II not for the strong influx of
Western talent. Many. of the most promi-
nent Western layers went TO Saratoga as
soon as Washington Park closed. Booking
every day. The bookie may force than to
take a short price on a horse. but if the
animal figures to win and has a good rider
aboard the bettor is willing TO take the
chance. The bookie has to take the money
on the choices or have his bank-roIl eat up
- IA n AAt aNblAAE
money and the horses run to form. they
soon put him out Of business.
Whenever Fred Cook gets hold If any
money the first thing he does Is TO invest
In horse flesh. The st. Louis bookmaker
has been having a great season on the Chi
cage tracks this year. Some say he is TO-
100 winner. No matter what the exact
amount is. Fred must have the coin, for
he Is buying htgh-pTiced runners with his
usual recklessness He purchased the crack
st. Saviour 2-year-old. ST. Minor. the othsr
day. and won the colt out in his next two
starts. Then he turned in and bought Lin
guist. a highly promising 2-year-old, by
Linden. and won this one out, also the frs.
time the youngster started in the Cook
Cook has a lot of auIts. but his redeem
ing quality is his fondness for a good race
horse. and they say he runs his horses on
ruled Cook off at Memphis this spring, ad-
United that ne ran his horses as straight as
a string under him at Hawthorne last year.
Cook IS a product OF pool alley in ST.
Louis. He started out making 25-cEnt books.
Now he makes the biggest book In the
West. He handles as high as S,ca to 4 sin
gle race.
"A horse that can win at the Fair Grounds
or Delmar is good enough to win. on almost !
any race track in the country,"\ remarked
Sam Adler the other day. Take the swell
Saratoga meeting. for instance. The best
there. ard Eastern horse-owners have been
predicting that few. IL any. Western horses
MouiG earn brackets at the spa this year.
However, every morning 1 read the returns
from Saratoga some st. Louis horse IS
among the winners. Paul j. Miles put
Joone over the plate at Saratoga the other
dsy. at 10 to 1. and he'll come pretty near
landing with COgswell whenever ne gets
ready TO cut the horse loose. Both these
nags raced at the Fair Grounds in the
spring and were beaten oftener than they
too. Runnels is another Illustration
Of what the products of the st. Louis tracks
can do away from home. This colt was de-
veiopeG at Deimar and the Fair Grounds
Last year, Tom Hayes sold the horse to
John Drake last winter for Sl2eeO. on the
strength or the colts sensational races at
the Fair Grounds last fall. Drake kept the :.
toga. The first time Runnels performed IN
the Drake colorS he ran n mile in l:39 and
2 fraction consider Rpnnels the best
3-year-old in America. Major Daingerfeld.
the champion 3-year-old of the Eastern
turf. will be forced TO tip his chapeau to
the Drake colt the first time the two come
"Another st. Louis turf star f. destined
10 make her debut at Saratoga shortly. The |
horse IN reference Is the unbeaten Olefiant.
winner of the Debutante and Junior Cham
bert Franklin shipped this filly East a
month ego and has given the mare a special !
FER her Saratoga stake en-
hest 2-year-cid fiily developed in the West
this season. She won two stakes at Nash
rfile and one. stake at Louisville before
IF the YOUNGSTERS here could make defiant
axterd herself. They haven't any in the
East that can outrun her very far"
". w. Darden was in the city last week.
having run down from Chicago on a short
Islt; Darden won a couple Of races at
Washington, Park with Lakeview Belle and
sidney Walker. but the stable has played
n hard luck at Harlem.
My jockey. Beauchamp. has not been rid. J
ng in good FORM said Darden. "ard I