The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-12-14

Ben. Van Ness and Scorpio in IA decisiv,
race. 1t was one of the most interesting
contests Of the meeting: Frank Bell Is
be about the only Splinter here that holds
him safe. Irene breezed five furlongs II
l:02 the day Frank Bell beat Big Ben ir
| liza 2-5 for six furlongs.
Charlie Celia won a swell bet on lie,
Dorsey the day this colt beat Ivernia
| Marco and Spec. Lev Dorsey belongs tC
w. L. Hazelip and is trained by Charlie
Mulho.land. who formerly handled the
Charter Oak stable for the Messrs. Calm
of st. Louis. Mulholland sent Lev Dorsey
after the best horses here in his first two
races. The colt performed 50 creditahly
as to attract Cellas attention The st.
LOUIS bo0kmaker, happening to run
across .!Ms, Mu dar.i said to him: ,,a,
Mitful.. Ancke. Gregor X. and Charlie
| Thompson with Lev Dorsey and run the
horse where he has q good chance to win
a race" said Celia.
the horse" remarked Mulho.land. as he
handed Charlie the weekly programme
book. Celia used to own a racing stable
horses. He selected a race for Lev Dor
sey. marked it for Mulholand's remem-
brance. and when the race came UP bet on
galloped over Ivernia Marco and Spec in
heavy going. Lev Dorsey is by that ia
nous Missouri sire of mudlarkS. Free
knight. which stood at Maryvile in Nuda-
way County for so many years.
Ben Chance. Macbeth, Lady Free
Knight. Eliza Dillon. Little Scout Bounti-
full and Dutch Carter are the other St
Louis horses which have managed to earn
winning brackets at this meeting
Fred Cook says there is no truth in the
report that he intends to sell out his ra-
cling stable. The story was to the effect
that Cook was hard up and had decided
TO dispose of English Lad. Haviland, Fa-
ther Talent. Linguist. Lendin and the re-
mainde. of his thoroughbred stars. While
admitting that he had an unsuccessful
season booking. Cook insists that he is far
from being broke. His horses won over
10000 at Chicago last season. Cook now
has over forty head CT horses in winter
quarters at the Louisville race track. His
crack 2-year-old English Lad promises to
be the winter-book favorite for the Amer
lean Derby of 1904. Cook holds English
Lad at s2o.09O.
Changer was heavily backed good
thing on a slow track the other day. He
ran a bad last Look out for this one on
a fast track He is by the California sire
Brutus. and must have shown something
to justify the heavy play on him. The
heavy going may have caused his bad
race. or perhaps his party was forestailed
in the betting.
Charlie Bowman. who made book with
considerable success for Russell Babcr at
ST. Louis last season. has arrived and is
playing them from the ground. Tommy
Conncrs and Billy Sippy also got in from
ST. Louis the other day. Johnny Bruen is
here with Fred Cock. Johnny Murphy,
the. clOcker is caShinE for Henry Hams.
Jockey George Thompson. who piloted
Dan Mckenna TO victory the other day.
RODE on the English and French turf last
Season with considerable success. Thomp-
son has the foreign way of sitting up
straight, as though he was on dress pa
rade In Rotten Row. Hyde Park. instead
of riding in horse race. 1t was said
that the success of the American riders
with this style of riding on the running
turf. Tod Sloans crouching seat In the
saddle was said to have superseded the
riding method of the Oid-fashioned jock
sons seat in the saddle. however. such
can hardly be true. Instead of the Eng
lish riders copying the American style. ii
looks as though some of the American
jockeys are doing some copying them
selves.
Jockeys Jimmie Hennessy and Wolff.
two promising St. Louis boys, both had
narrow escapes from serious injury the
day Barkelmore. viii Shelly and Shotgun
fell Wolff escaped with fractured
shoulder bone. He will he on the ground
for some time. Wolff is with Kirby Orr.
Hennessy luckily escaped. he having got |
of with a severe jolting up.
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