The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-04-20
Getting RlcD Quick. .
CVashinFt0n Starl

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4hese turf investment outfits viii be
aoins business again, and slews and
slalhers or IT, inside OF six months"
s.lu q Turf philosopher who is prepar-
ing a string out at the BenninF track.
1ne people who bite On such bait as
the turf syndieates offer soon foreet.
ana then, TOO, inside Of the next few
months there VIII be a number of big
racing coups on various tracks around
lhe country, and these VIII be written
ana talked about enormously. thus
bringing new money into the game.
The killings on the race tracks cap
lure the Imagination of people who
4oA know anything about race horses.
W hen they read OF John Drake pulling
down nearly S400000 on his SalvaDle,
or Dave Gideon Strengthening the ring
Tor more than S200.00U on his unknown
Josepha, or obscure owners gathering
IN great sums on stil more obscure
horses, their minds become indamed
VITA contemplating what they think are
the possibilities Of game OF which
they KNOW nothing, and thus they drift
INTO II. They don't kn0W-hOW can
lhey knoW-that III is only the success
iul racing cOups that are written about
those that fail are rarely even re-
Ierred 20. except Ia terms Of disgust
Dy the men who have fizzled out I'M at
tempting 10 put them through. A few
uays ago, Tor instance, there was a
huge killing IN California on am un-
known horse named Forest King. The
people behind the horse battered his
price down from 100 10 1 TO less than
10 TO l. and the horse won in a rOmp.
Wen, thousands of folks all over the
country have read about this killing by
TINS time, and, hoop-lai you can wager
Jhat Il looks so easy to large pro
portion of them that they'll suffer vet
from having read the account OF that
race. You hear about the successful
men, but how much do you hear about
the failures? il is the same with the
racing coups. Those that win out get
the stories, but those that don't go
through are stTangled.
TO Illustrate: Six years ago. at the
Latonia track there was a killing AM
blocked out that would have chased the
price layers all over America TO the
foolish houses in sets OF fours if
just IT,
The horse happened to belong to
me, which renders the recital Of the
cause underlying the If all the more
sad He was such a good horse that
he's been in the stud for a number Of
years now, and has sent winners TO the
races at Benning.
never raced this horse at all as a
2-yeer-old. He went a bit wrong as
was hitting him for the post as a 2-year-
old. and so I turned him out and
waited for him 10 come to hand as a
5-year-old. 1 didn't really know
then whether he was going to be Of any
account or not but when I got him
into racing shape on the old Lexington
track the stuff he showed me made
me sit up and rub my eyes. I Just bub-
Dled within over the prospect Of a kill !
ing that would make the ring look Ike
an abattOir.
zone thing only bothered me, and
that was the extreme nervousness Of |
the young fellow. He was as Jumpy
and Jerky as yellow pup in flea time
and piece of paper flying across the /
training track or a bit of unusual noise /
behind him in his barn would make him /.
hop around for half an hour like a ball I
of mercury with the ST. Vitus dance. /
l tried to cure him Of that in all sorts I
or ways, including a thorough school /
ing at the barrier, but IL was born in I
him and he just couldn't help IT, / /
decided to put the killing through. any
how, figuring ia out that if his natural /
nervousness caused him 10 get a poor /
start for his first actual race. his great I
speed would carry him to the front at (
the wire notwithstanding
Il took the horse up to Latonia a /
week before calculated on making him /
fetch me the bale Of money home, and /
when the day came around he was as .
fine as a Strad fiddle. I tossed him
into a siX-furlOng sprint that had four
teen other starters. a number of them
being the real good ones among the
Cincinnati sprinters, and IL looked like .
Q sure enough shOO-In for my horse.
II had put about half a dozen of the .
boys wise to the thing and
our money at the hour the race was .
due was down in a whole lot Of dif-
ferent sections of the United States. /
The books opened up my unknown at /
100 to 1. and we chewed that so hard
that two minutes after the states went
up my horses price was down to Is to
J. and the books were leary Of taking
much Of that. BY that time, however,
we were into them for a figure that L
hate TO name, because ii makes me F.
lonesome to think about it.
We'll, they got away on a line, my
horse no with the rest, and the boy
with a tight rein on him, according to /
instructions. until the stretch was
reached. when he was to cut loose and
fetch the horse home on the chin
II was happening just that
way when five of the horses swung into
the stretch in row.
My horse was on the rail, and the
jock was just beginning to let out the
links. when six Internal darkies sud
denly rose out of the tall, rank grass
alongside the infeld fence and stimuli
IaneOusly let out "a succession Of blasts
from six long tin fish horns that must
have been heard down IN Alabama.
My horse jumped about nine feet into
the air and then swerved heavily onto
the horse next TO him.
Then Il was a case Of all the
horses in that first division banging
against each other until it looked as
If several of them would have to go
down. AS IL was. all of the front horses
we're thrown of their stride. Mine
was the quickest TO recover himself,
and he came on and won like scared
rabbit
He was disqualified. OF course. for
fOuIing. The books had shifted the TO-
dent when all of that good money went
In on my horse, and a hard loser among
them had chartered the six darkles 10
mess UD the race with the tish horns.
The boolmaker stood 20 pay out AlzuU0
IL nv horse won, and he felt pretty
confident that the only thing for him
10 do was 10 make that snealIy play
for q disqualification. He got away
with il. and the next time my good
horse went to the post he was 8 10
shot That's how close / came 70 being
d pork butcher, pulling off historical
hog Strengthening. without actually get
ting the apron on. And that was one