The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-07-09
Jockey Who Won the st. Louis
Derby Gave Dewey a Weak
Finish and Salve Beat Him.
PROVED BAD DAY FOR PLAYERS.
Sir Christopher the Only Favorite
10 Win-W. b. Gates Showed
Surprising Improvement-Sir
Christopher'S Good Race.

The manner IN which Jockey Singleton
threw away the handicap at Delmar yes.
terday on Mr.. Schyelber's Dewey earned
him a meTited suspension of thirty days.
Dewey should ave won by any number OF
lengths. lie lost by a scant nose to Saivc.
Singleton gave Dewey n bad ride all the
way. The grand little horse got of well.
Singleton jammed him into the bunch on
the first turn and get him all tangled up.
He got him cut of on the next turn, and
lost five lengths. StMl. Dewey was full Of
run, and would not have IL. Saiys came
along with Z rush at the three-eiEhths.
Dewey went with him. Singleton could not
hold tie grand little horse back. He would
have his heads lie came On, closed like a
Hon around the stretch turn, Ralloped. over
his horses past the paddock and was breez-
Ing in when Singleton took MIN up and
started to ease him in. Salvo came again in
the last few jumps and got rrst place by a
good eight inches.
Crowd Angry at the Jockey
There was haGes 10 pay IN a minute. The
people wanted 10 kill 5 ngie.Ou. for Dewey
vas a heavily backed fIvOTite. They
Cheered O'NeiIl for MS effort on Saiye.
Judge Brady had Singleton up in the stand.
The boy SAID TINT he never rode 50 hard a
race IN his lie. This was ~palpahly untrue,
he never made q move on Dewey. nor did
he help him at any time The gallant lit
tie horse ran away with him just as Otis
0lQ III IGe Derry. Judge BRADY gave SIN
EietOn thirty Jays for mis- ride.
II Barney Schneider. who owns the horse.
had seen the race he would have gone crazy.
Schreiber never sent a horse to the post in
Dewey was At enough, and tried as nara
a. he knew, but Singleton did not help him
a hit.
Sir Christopher Only Good Thing.
Form players had a had cay. Not one
OF the selections Of the h~andicappers went
through save Sir Christopher. He did man
age to land by = short head, two horses
tapped on his cara. A bad ride on Weird
helped him q lot.
DomInick made his presence felt in the
FIRST race when he shot Nimble Nag through
at 10 10 land completely outr6Ia Dale.
who was on Harry Griffith. This colt
showed speed, but ran out in the stretch
turn. At that he was beaten but a short
head.
Tex" Forman finally managed 10 break
his maiden at the local tracks. Louis Wag-
neF took the second race in a hard drive
from Satchel. who ran a good second. MAZDA
Bel. under an easy ride. was third.
Sir Christopher took the third race In
rus got on badly. Weird gave Christie
pher bitter contention TO the stretch head,
along handsomely and seemed to be win
ming easily when Verify showed up on the
outside. and Weird came again on the rail-.
head. -" g
Lunar q Badly Beaten Favortte.
In the fifth race Lunar WAS. of course. a
hot tavor-te at 3 TO !. though The Repub-
lie fOTecasted her defeat. II was her first
out, and the mare had recently been nsrved,
and at best she never was a sprinter. She
proved that she could not sprint yester-
day. They threw the first six furlonEs in
la ct he-, the fastest six furlongs OF the
meeting. The pace threw her out OF her
stride and up in the air. Joe Martin breezed
rome an easy winner. Four Leaf C. beat
Lunar for the place by half a length.
PITS was a hot favorite in the last race.
ONeli got her damned out Of IL on the
turn into the back stretch and threw her
on her stride. ". b. Gates was kept OUT
Of the jam all the way. When TickfuI and
Federalist quit he breezed home alone with
n wonderful burst of speed. T.ckful second
ana Federaiist third. Oryis tried hard. but
could do no better than show.