Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-07-23
TO 8 SHOT AT LAST

The group of man With the conspicuous
diamonds and tha ,Iosa-o,,t h,,r xv.ra taIL
in, 80 a. -. e " l". 49,
s - .iH s.eat Kilhns mat was maue
oii 'ne eoie fiexion at Brlshton Beach the
other day.
That F1exion trick" remarked one of
or race horses hi,,.orf ..w,s ono of those
.,ocossfr, g. .,.,,oa,, No.
-, - IS 'ha' -
aoou' re" near about the nine o'ner care
iuiiy ifaned-up Killings out OF ten that IAN
to go through.
when a really tremendous operation Is
successfully mt u,,aar Hka thar first ont
in,-of E,ax;or.. -, 80. h.,r the re,r
80, x.N az ,.,t g
ioseiS' fascinating news, ana recruits Aoi
the betting end of the turf are made IN
shoals. Inc killings make the game LOOK
inviting ana easy, and the 1resh money oi
the people whose lmaginationS are capt-
waited by the newspaper accounts Oh the
great coupS drifts TO the DookleS satcheis.
Il won't say that it is about as hard for
man born in 1870 to get pension, lot
total disability incurred In the oattie y,
Gettysburg as it is to pull on success y. =.
killing on race track noWadayS-Dut IL >
pretty close to 1t. It's not now as IL was
in the old days, when the owner OF an
improved horse could bring the peast oul
on to the track, give him sap on ui,1
haunch, tell the jock to fetch the annual
home by the air line, ana then s.roh my
the ring and collect. Any one OIL enou
sand things can fatten prepared coup
out like piece of stretched roof TN nov .
adays. The most foolish little mfsnap can IL
utterly destroy all possibility OF puinng OH
a killing that has been shre"oiy piahi eon
and worked over, night anu uaS' III
months.
"A few years ago, for instance tnat niie
western mare. Fleur-de-Lys. was Drousn'
east, after wonderfully successful c ,ami
paign on the California tracks Ior q MI All.
ing. On one of the New York tracks sne
worked her little mile one carry oa"n "a
nothing, as the stable hands say, anu
none Of the railbirds caught the WORK.
1.-The mare was 'pitchforked, with noun
Ing worth mentioning IN the way u w sin
on her back, into an overnight hano,cap
with a lot of good horses, Whlch maoe
big price against her certainty Her peo-
pie designed to blister the pooi rooms
throughout the country on the WIN ana 81
they sent their commissioners TO various
points with the money a few DAYS Deiore
the race.
Nov. a short time before the conteM
plated killing the owner Of the mare got
the jockey clubs permission. for some rea-
son or other, to change her name from
Fleur -de-Lys to Maxine. The commission
ers who had gone west and south with the
big money to bet on Fleur-deLys didn't
know ANYTHING about this switch Of her
name to Maxine And the owner and his
people blaming the coup at the New York
end of the line lust forgot to inform the
commissioners of the change
eft ha pDened too that the pool rooms in
tho various cities to which the commits
s;onar. vent failed to chalk formerly
E1anrdaIys' aftor the name of Maxine
-. =. oooas;oro1, dona In such cases and
% 20 oo l.'..,. n,oIudine that for
go. ~. .oosn,, as, ~, 40 mare hadn't been
taro1 T., ~ 90. that u,as to no the kill
~ Eant Iii a. that ans Fleur-de-Lys
% I.s.t =; .ho;. oIothas
IVY, -m ino,,a .. ~ anwbo5v to draw
,, Wei oedV sLatoh W os now those com
iit.ie ei - ~ -, -, 1har. in
mlssloners delt ~nen ene 81, Pine racs
lfe pooi iooiii,, 60 ,I;e 80 stroIIsd
anu ahiou hcins lha. IuaNie na 80 III
~ soLne ti,hs Easy, supp' .pIniu rs for-
OIL WIN .he uiy reinain N, 'iaH S io
merry fIeur-oe-Lys. Inc MaAins psop ''
mace dig tnNlg OF tne WIZ a. .he 40,
OF course Out SO tr1Vial tniIiS % tn ne.
Ialiure TO INFORM their commissioners S 'n I'd.
cnanse III the mare > naii,e hhu zen "P
pileo TOT cost them a eooo MANY .ehs VI
thousands or collars
ABOUT elght years ago at the now ue
1uncI hopy track near Chicaeo tneIe was
a kllHng plocKeo out Una. "ouio nav
chased the price layers ana poor rooms az
over America TO the poorhouse III se's VI
The horse happened 70 belong 10 me,
winch renders the recitai OF the cause
underlying the II an the more eIuesotIle.
he was sucn gooo morse, 700. ,lla' ne mas
been IN the stud Tor several years, anu ne
mas sent plenty OF winning SONS ana oaush-
tiers to the races
Il never raced him at al as two-year-
old He went a Dit wrong wheh l was eus
Ing him toward tne posi- at tnat ase; anu u
SO turned MIN gu. anu Waileu ioi mn ~
come 10 hano as three-yIar oiu. uiuii .
Iealiy Know .neil "netlet ne was soiIs ~
De oi any account vi mo-; put wien l sos
MN ih,o iaclhS IN, oii tiie p 'oi
track oo"l III heil ~. 'le WI n ne Si .t
eu me illaue M 81 up anu sasp i;, It's
nuopeu osei VIZ. .is ~ 81 I;, VI q Na.s
ma ma "ouiu hiaNe INC i'ie i'oN int an
'o H. .,,,r ,,r hottaroa -. .nd +hat
Oiie Thing oii'S ooeleu ne a.iu lie.
was tne eA,reiie net t nousness oi my Souhs
morse; ne was as Juinpy anu JefAy as q
orlnoie pup III nea .liie. anu piece VI
paper h!lils acIo i .ne .iain Li u On VI d
Dlt OF unusual noise peniIiu MN III ms s'ali
Wouiu iaahe MN mp aio o !ol nan on
rour IKE pan ol ioose 81. situs oahclns
mercury. l trled 10 cure MN OF IL III various
ways inciudlng thorough scnoolihg at the
barrier, but II was porn IN MN. ana ne
couldn't help It, decided to put the Killing
over anyhow. hgurins IT out that II his
natural nervousness caused him to get
poor start for his nrst actual race his great
speed would carry him through notwith-
standing.
Il took him up to the Roby track week
before 1 calculated on making him fetch me
home the bale of money. and when the day
came around he was as fine as Strad
fiddle. tossed MIN into three-quarter