The St. Louis Republic., 1903-08-02
[rrEN FOR THE SUNDAY REPrRI.Ic.

WRITTEN FOR THE SUNDAY REPUBLIC.
st Louis racegoers are prone to carp.
Indeed. it is too true that racing in Amer
lea Is justly carped at. At its best it is none
too sweet. But St Louisans are too prone
to laud racing elsewhere and defame it in
81 Louis.
As far as class of horses goes, 1t is. per-
haps, true that st. Louis is behind Chicago
and New York. These cities are larger
than St. Louis. They can afford &c
pete wish them: Thus they get the good
horses, just as they get the good actors and
bali players. pugiiists and other perform
era.
But in point Of purity and honesty. let i.
be said, with all due consideration and
With full sense Of the subject. that racing in
81 Louis is far better than in New York OF
Chicago. And let this not be construed into
The writer does not hold that racing in st.
racing In Chicago and New York, it is as
distilled water unto sewer bilge.
A correspondent writes to The Republic
laudlng the honesty Of racing in Chicago.
On the very same day the Chicago Tri-
bune. . conservative newspaper. responsible
for dameges 70 the sum Of slo0o0ooo. charges
track, with running Hargis last one day at
Q to s, then breaking q track record with
him next day At 10 TO ]. and then coming
The same paper charges Pat Dunn with
pnn 5enn MeGnrf IN n.new sas same
How would 1t sound II Mr.. TILES, owner
of tho Fair Grounds, ran q horse at Kim
ss ness as s.i In ors Tscola aay me IN so~ e
Last month the same conservative paper.
which possesses a most careful and able
period of fifteen years, accused Jockey John
Rel6 who is under contract to Corrigan, of
pulling Ccr-igan's mare Sardine In the last
fifty yards Of a race run at Hawthorne, the
track owned by Corrigan.
CASES WHICH ARE IN POINT.
II horse owned by Titles. ridden by Til
les.s contract jockey, who was set down by
q foreign Jockey club for suspicious riding
and whom Til.es's influence with the West
ern Jockey Club got reinstated. were pulled
BY the Jockey on Tilles's track. what would
81. Loufsans think?
St. Louis tracks. He is simply speaking OF
what Is true at Chicago.
As for New York. take up tho racing
Of Mr. Keene and Mr. whitney. props Of
the Jockey Club. trained by Jimmie Rowe
and John E. Madden, most successful OF
up. Horse goes up in betting. Runs q bad
race. Then up goes Burns or Odom. down
goes the price and IN comes the horse. Go
millionaire turfmen. Let us take them as
turf representatives Of the East. Never
mind the poor owners
Take Blues. for instance. Here is star
cup horse owned by Frank Farrell king of
the handbook makers in New York. Any
time they want Blues to win he wins. When
ne runs a bad race they say he sulked.
Louis. then would follow King Barieycorn.
He has run and won At long prices and they
ny: Blues was In good humor to-day, set
z killing pace and never was in danger"
When he runs had one they say: Blues
y confirmed \. rogue and refused to extend
That is the way Eastern turf writers nut
u. 81. Louis turf writer's would say: .'Biues
did not have his tea to-day and should be
ruled on" Blues has been doing this for
three years now.
FORM AS IT Is IN CHICAGO.
Take Flying Torpedo. for three years at
Chicago. He was good at 10 to and a snail
at to ?. He lasted three years at Chicago,
He would last three races in st. Louis.
Certainly there Is q lot Of in-and-out run.
ming at st. Louis and horses beat one an
otner back and forth. That is because they
1ormful running.
For instance, on the Fourth of July
c,ds Flckie Saint was beaten BY bad lot at six
and one.haii furlonss: & so' Mnsa n y 10 over six
rss SIMPLY o s sScs; nd One time time she was lucky to
past her In the stretch fell. The previous
time she was OF badly and refused to rum
ms k1aL q 10fm Tege1Sal.
or course. every now and then one horse
runs bad race. Take Masters race be-
hind De Reske and Masters race behind
Helen Print last time and De Reske's race
But that Is a mere side issue. Owners are
fighting the Handicapped. and fencing to
take weight of. One must look for and ex-
But since the Jockey combination was
sent away from the Fair Grounds In the
ssg spS,Sg the writer has NOT seen good;
STEADY, dependable horse run a real bad
race one day and a good one next tfmeout.
GoUDY AS A STAKE HORSE.
A correspondent writes, to The Republic
taking an awful fall out Of Goudy. whom he
claims has been beaten In slower time and
by worse horses than he had beaten.
Il Cloudy has won q race in year the
writer has overlooked It. II Bob Marks will
man that can get sloo worth out of him any
Way on earth is alive the writer would like
There are many things about local racing
which the writer would Ike to see mended.
But a. far as striving for honesty. prevent
Ing maud and doing their best to conduct
ftNnkly admit that as far as he can discern
the owner Of the Fair Grounds and Delmar
20 farther and do more than those of any
that they are successful In doing what they
try to do. He does say. however. that they
succeed- better than the owners OF any
fear OF successful contradiction. that the
q. Louis tracks. come closer to honesty
than any other tracks in America Ano that
b not saying much for them.
TRACK OWNERS AS BOOKMAKERS
The writer frankly admits that he thinks !
II would Be better II race track e.ockhoid-
err vere not largely interested in bookmak-
M q their own tracks. While the very
fact q their interest In books makes the