The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-01-18
Messrs. Bryan ard Mcdowell Make
Life Miserable for Evil-DOers
at Crescent City.
HORSES WHO GO WELL IN MUD.
Henry Mcdaniel Says That Low
striding, Quick-Actioned Eel
lows Do Not Endure Like
Long-Striding Horses.

s,.c,, ,nrr-spoudence OF The sunday Republic.
New Orleans. La, Jan. 1.-THE new fa-
c,re stewards here. Messrs. Mcdowell ano
BRYAN. are evidently fnbued with a Srm
determination TO earn their salaries come
what may. They are Industrious They see
a pace that the scandalmongers md IL
hard to follow.
Mal.ster has the build and make OF .
cheap selling platter. He does not look nxe
him perform in the East say he is a coun-
terfeit. and HIS running here would bear OUT
that theory. Martin bet on Maltster the
day Ben Frost beat him.
The turf is likely TO be deiIged with new
starting devices next spring. Tine new ma
chine rs on exhibition here now: and an,
other in course Of construction. Two local
inventors. a member OF the Police Depart.
.ment and a telegraph operator, have sold
the model OF a similar machine compiesed.
In this affair the sides Of the stalls Depo-
rating the horses are of leather.
Another starting machine man. H A. Bar
rett. is at work on sne model node b Ht a mosan,e
MI. Barrett Is the inventor Of the rubber
band starting apparatus and also Of the
and on the Chicago tracks. where Mr..
Dryer ofaciates. Mr.. Barrett spent the
past summer in England. and established
his gate at EPSON and Sandown Park. Ihe
object Of his movable gate is to give tbs
horses a running start Of forty or nifty
feet before the barrier Is finally, released.
'lD6 DdIIlSI- IuobC2 oi RoiAC. WAICAos -
tached to light steel tubing. placed on top
OF the fence at either side of the track The
ends of these tubes turn upwards Ike sleigh
runners. The weight Of the moving horses
carries the barrier forward and finally MP
and out of the way. The starter will have
control Of brakes whereby the barrier can
be stopped at two or three different points
II any OF the horses are not In position TOR
the start.
The Conqueror II was a hot paddock tip
in the handicap purse recently won by ST
I'M but. some of the trainers Who
knew the horse wen kept of; Henry Nc
can run in the mud" said Mcdaniel, -and
he won't be one. two, three You fellows
who are betting on him are throwing your
as though he could fy in the mud" re-
marked some one. THAT don't cut any
figure replied Mcdaniel; Any horse With
fast enough In the mud to make you be-
lieve him to be a world-beater. but when u
comes to running he will soo1 get tangled
Asked as to the sort of horse likely to
run well in the mud. Mcdaniel said: n
| however. i have found that a low-actioned.
quick-stritins horse is pretty certain 70 be
a bad mud horse, and especially In sticky
mud. His quick action, tires him ont A
muscular. long -striding horse. on the other
hand. and more particularly a horse that
runs q hit OF the ground, il likely to be .
good mudder. He may not be q SPEEDY
| horse. but he will rate along through the
! mud at an even pace. while speedler animals
in front viii tire themselves out and come
back TO him"
The, arc no better trainers or shrewder
judges Of all phases of racing In. the West
! cheaper ores in tha Bennett string here, and
so far has not done much. although he has
lost two or three RACES with Little Scout
have a big stable to handle for Nj. Ben
nett the coming season. II reports from
Memphis be true the string will be more
than ordinarily strong in 2-year-o!d ma
terial-