The St. Louis Republic., 1904-12-26
Declares Western Jockey Club
Stewards Are Mistaken if They
Think His Uprising Joke.
WiNNS LOUISVILLE FIGHT.
New Years Handicap Next Fca,
ture. With Much Quality III the
Field-Jockcy Livingston
Goes Back 10 burnett.
REpuRILc sPECIAL

REPUBLIC SPECIAL.
New Orleans. Dec. 25.-The visit ~ I'D
Corrigan during the week revived talk "i
The new track The promoters of the en-
terprise are still progressing with their
preparations. The haste which WAS ap-
parent during the latter days "i November
is absent. but the work Is progressing.
list the same. and il looks as though Inc
tack will be ready for racing within a
short time II there i any racing ready
for it,
Corrigan talked freely enough, bat Sai"
little. The people here ars III Il log over
the situation. The principal source OF
news has been the dispatches from Chi
cago TO a local paper, which have coy
red the whole ground, from the complete
demolition of the Jockey Club forces, TO a
want of gameness which would prevent
tne insurgents from actually making war.
Inasmuch as these dispatches said that
action would be taken in court 10 forfeit
the Western Jockey Club charter. tninS
the Western Jockey Club never had. ana
referred to Rufus Brush as the principal
stockhoider in The Crescent City Jockey
club. the prophecies have not been as
clear and couvific::., 2s one could desire.
Corriean would not clear up the situa-
tion materially. He has been quoted as
saying he was going to tear things up
generally. that nc Is satisfied wltE the
oates given all the properties in which he
IS interested. that he Is not financially IN
lerestei in the New Orleans Jockey Club.
that he is a heavy stockholder in tnat en-
terprise, and half dozen other contradic-
tory things.
Speaking for himself down here he
would say nothing but that ne thought
the New Orleans Jockey Club had been
unfairly treated and that the Western
Jockey Club stewards would make a mis-
take IL they treated the uprising OF HIM
self, Devereux and Matt Winn a joke.
pEVEREUXS ACTIONS.
Deyereux. after advertising certain
dates. asking them. and. being awarded
them. signed the call for the meeting OF
the insurgents. Only those who knew OF
the friendship between Captain klce anu
Mr.. DevereuS understood this until MI
DevsreuX came out III the open IN Chl-
cago with the statement that Arkansas
demanded the reinstatement oi Cap'a'h
Matt winn of Louisville is without ap-
parent motive other tnan to see MS track
cut greater figure IN racing thah II mas
since the Western Jockey Club was organ
ized. After the representative OF the
Louisville track IN the old Turf Congress
WIS induced to desert his associates ani
so over, TO the opposition, thus t5iinslns
about The organization OF the Western
Jockey club, which, without his co-opera,
tion, would have been Impossible, tnt olu
town has been rather badly treated.
But that the Louisville track. "hlch
alone was responsible Tor the orsahiza,
ton OF the Western Jockey CLUB, should
now be found in the ranks OF the lnsuf-
gents. complaining Of and asking protec-
ton from the acts of his own child, makes
ar amusing picture
Horses are peculiar creatures of preju.
dice. They take fancies for all sorts OF
things ana persons. enrnities toward ON
ers Some nave TO have sheep or goats
for stall companions. some Will run Tor
one boy and not for another.
Hymettus is one OF this kind. she be
longs to Jack Phillips. father OF Kelly
phillips. who leads the list of winning rid
ers here. Hymettus has always refused
to extend himself for Phillips. When he
is in the saddle she suiks, stops ana uoes
everything but run.
Because of this Mr. Bryan. the presid-
ing steward. has been refusing TO permit
the boy to ride her. but last Wednesday,
when She was in at a mile and half, he
thought possibly the route was too lar
for light boy To ride her. and permitted
Phillips to ride.
She was the favori,e. and it was the
same old story. She ran out at the first
turn. then pinned back her ears and
sulked and finished nowhere. In future
Little Jimmy Hennessy will ride her in all
her races no matter what the distance or
weight. This is the. little chap, Phillips
bcught from Willie Harris down here last
winter. and for him Hymettus will al
ways do her best.
LIVINGSTON GOES TO BURNETT.
Now that Clint Burnett has disposed OF
the contract on Jockey S. Dickson he will
again have the services of Jockey Liv-
ingston. Livingston was the best ap-
prentice here last year. and about this
time last year Mr.. Burnett leased the
services of the rider to Johnnie McCaffe.ty
tor the year.
Mccafferty was then preparing 20 take
the horses of Jerry Weinberg the race
loving lawyer in Brooklyn. and wanted
a rider. Livingston and McCafferty did
not seem to get along together. The boy
rode in Chicago for a month or so early
in the year, but either the horses were not
good or the boy was riding poorly. and
winning mounts were few. This culminat-
ed when Livingston packed his grip one
night and rushed off to New York He
was buletined as a runaway, and when
he tried to ride in the East was denied
the privilege.
He put in the balance of the year gailop-
ing horses in the morning and loafing the
rest of the time. He came here at the be-
ginning of the meeting, but was not per-
mitted to ride while the contract with
McCafferty was in force. This contract
will run out this week, and Livingston
l. l.