The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-08-03

the way and beat her out, after Mae Day
lea her for a mile and seventy yards. She
never could endure being outrun.
The mare is no doubt entitled to credit,
and SO Is that clever young trainer. George
Land, who is doing smart work with his sta.
bic this year. But Booker has one great
advantage over other riders which casual
observers fail to see. It is that he Is lighter
than the scale shows. He sits light has
rides. all his races alike and horses like to
run for him. L. Wilson has the faculty OF
riding light In even stronger fashion than
Booker.
Speaking OF Wilson. Chicago papers say
that Mrs. Hildreth has taken such a fancy
and would; II she could adopt him. Wilson
boy to have around any ones house.
Lou Calm thinks that IN his small boy.
Perkins. who rode his first winner on Lynch
and then came right back with Emma
He thinks that he can rate a horse. Judge
pace and force a drive as well as any small
boy in the West. He is cool lad. Il years
A real promising light lad is little Howell;
ION Saa OF . Joe h9weil' the famous breaker Of
pounds. gets OF well. always rides ground
saving race and has put up more than one
fair finish. The lad is worth getting good
1905; He knows how to ride a race now. All
he lacks is strength.
zone thing that went to make Frank
O'Neill great rider was the attention he
paid to his business" says Starter Dade:
When he was riding under me he could
not only tell every horse in the race. but
who owned and rode them, what kind Of
races he had been running. what his chances
were. who was riding him that day. who
had ridden him in his bad and good races.
etc. In fact, he had the races figured like
Handicapped. Then he always figured the
contenders and knew them when he saw
them. Thus 1t was that he tried to figure
how the race should be run and what he
should do under certain contingencies. He
would know who should set the pace. who
and where the contenders should be. This
gave him great advantage over needless
rdns az ess f the others IN
I see some Of the leading riders here now
try to make runaways of mile and one
could not lose were they rated. think a
Jockey who has ambitions should do as
O'Neill did-study the form charts and en-
would be run at every angle and what he
would do in various contingencies"
New York turf writers solemnly inform the
world that McChesney has bad stone bruise
in the ''neighborhood Of the on fore-foot
coronet." Just how a horse could have
stone bruise on the coronet any more than
a man could have stone bruise on his
knee lS nafQ TO see. Inc COTOneI Is the eA-
terror outer circle Of the hoof. where It
Joins the fetock. How a horse could get
stone bruise there is hard to imagine. All
men remember stone bruises on the soles OF
the feet but not any on the ankles.
The Eastern turf writer is q bird Tho
other day he was telling st. Louisans that
Joe Less. would not run for any one but but
Lesser is the gentlest, kindeSt horse on
earth. He will not only run for any one.
but he will rate for any one-walk. trot.
Further, Wainwright never rode him in a
race and; 10 to l. never rode him anywhere:
II there Is boy on earth for whom Lesser
make them any more incapable. VAIN
rights departure for New York may be
good thing for Santa Ventura. He always
be that Doctor Holtgrewe win let capable
boy ride her. As Doctor Holtgrewe always
fSe Vii I'M snothsr
wainwright to handle the smart little mare.
Joe Lesser. like Kalos. went East.sa but
did not conquer. Like Kalos. he did not even
start. He Is home again.
Every bookmaker in the East had q big
commission on him from St Louis" said
knew him better than did He held
nSt BE TyoSd
have been / to in the betting. We can
get better than that here. So We came
back"
GIL sommez. took Kalos. horse with very
bad legs, to New York to win a bet. One
with I. Wilson and did sig furlongs In
1:12A They were running In 1:15 then. 1t
was wonderful work; sommers. who was
legged horse East
The tin went forth. It worked from the
Tas Nes tS ,han Would save
been bet on Kalos had he started. st.
Louis was good for $4,000. Every man in
nee, Fire Department and train service
would have bet on him. The tip was given
away with glasses OF beer in saloons and
Kalos broke down in his work. He never
went to the post. His bad tendon gave
When Kalos and Lesser went East every
one Of the 5000 people in St. Louis interest
ed In racing wrote or wired some friend IN
New York to have bet on for him and for
himself. They were the best good things
ever.
These cases Just show what good touting
can do. Any man with a good thing can
get lot Of money bet on It. They also
show what bad policy 1t is for the local
bookmakers 70 refuse money at a fair price
and thus run custom and business away.
As things stand now. no touttng owner
Hence there Is not the voiume Of play the:e
should be here. The '.touting' owner IL
tremendous boost for the ring. Three or
four good touting owners and trainers made
Kinloch q great meeting last summer. They
brought thousands Of dollars to the track
where hundreds go to Delmar.
The local bookmalkers could do twice the
business thay do II they would take the l
money at the right price and stand q tap
and take a chance Of knocking down the |
good thing. And how many Of them they
would knock down. But most Of them are
booking on a s., 500 roll and cannot afford to |
take q bet. What II most needed at st.
Louis Is bookmakers who will stand up and |
let them play good things with them.
Chicago newspapers are abusing the East
ern Jockey Club for refusing license to /
Sam Hildreth. The Chicago papers seem /
to think that the Eastern Jockey Club |
should do anything e. E. smathers asked |
OF II, Just as the western Jockey Club does /
anything John Drake or John Gates asks i
Of It.
II Mr.. smathers asked for license for
Mr.. Hildreth he had very poor taste. 1t /
was poor taste In a gentleman sportsman
to employ ruled-off man to train for him, |
worse taste to endeavor to use great horse |
like Mcchesney to get his ruled-on en-
ploye license. Hildreth has a perfect right |
to apply for a license. but none to use Nc
Chesney to get 1t for him. To what beauti-
full uses has McChesney been put for Joe /
Ullman and for Hildreth. And then turf |
bodies 60 to Legislatures and ask for laws |