The St. Louis Republic., 1904-10-09
WRITTEN FOR The SUNDAY REPUBLIC.

WRITTEN FOR The SUNDAY REPUBLIC.
But two stakes remain on the DelmaE
Iist-the Laurel and the Forecast
The Laurel. which will be run next Sat
urday. is a handicap at six furiongs. for
3-year-oits and W. and closed with fifty-
ELK nominations. These ffty-six include
the best sprinters seen here this year,
such as Sylvia Talbot Schwalbe- Otto
S:ifcl. Blissful. Hilse. Miss Mae Day, Ees-
| try Mafalda. Anne Dams. Orient, Two
Lick and Frank Eel
The --eigats will be announced THURSDAY.
ard Otto Stifei Will undoubtedly have the
post Of honor.
Whether he will he brought down Fl T0m
| Kansas City or not for the race IS a mat
! ter OF speculation. and Will probably de
| pend upon how he is treated in the weitssht
assignments sylvia Talbot and BlissfU!.
| too. arc up at the city Of the kaw. but
Il is only a short run. and there is no
doubt that ;heir owners would send theIn
down II they thought they could capture
this plum. which ought 10 have an aggre-
| gate value OF ABOUT e. go.
HIles and Mae Day Will make strong
rair for W. W. Elliott. who Is cutting A
much stronger figure in the racing at the
end Of the season than he did in its early
stages. Inasnuch as he brought TToxier
from Chica go to ride LuDin In yesterdays
ST. Ike. it looks as though ne will take the
trouble to have a good rider up next Sat
urday. Gisbourne can hardly be rated as
sta. performer IN the saddle and a good
rider Is worth a lot OF weight OF horses
back
RULING WAS PECULIAR
Judge Murphy's rilirg against Jesse
Hughes last Thursday was peculiar one
In that it carried no prejudice against the
Texas horsemen. Mr.. Murphy practically
said to him: We don't Ike the way your
horses run. We are satisfied from the
evidence that you are betting on these
horses, and that you played Pourquoi Pas
heavily enough to convince Us you thought
she would run her race and would win.
But she did not run her race Neither
have other horses Of yours. which looked
ike they should win. but which were
not only beaten. but dissracefuily beaten.
We cannot understand il. Ii may be
due to natural causes, but We should pre-
fe- these unnatural results from natura,
causes should ceveiOp elsewhere, hence
We can no longer give sta Bile room TO you"
The ruling means that Hughes can race
his horses anywhere he pleases except
heEe. The ordinary ruling denying the
horsen,aa OF the privilege OF making an
entry Is bindirg CT all tracks This Ia the
ruling which vas made in the case OF the
mare Nearest. owned by Hughes. when she
ran some such a race as PourQuoi Pas
showed Thursday. hence no matter where
start Nearest She is. 70 AL practical pur-
pose. ruled OF. But this ruling has rot
been made against Hughes. nor against
any other OF his horses. SO they are in
good turf standing.
The circumstances which led up to the
ruling have teen the subject Of much gos-
sip. 1t is a very mysterious state Of af
fairs where horses. owned by 30 shrewd
a man as Hughes Is conceded TO be, can
show form SO at variance with his expec-
tations. The stables trainer. a1cCarthy,
was not called into the discussion OF the
affair. He mas been handling Hughes's
horses since Charlie Ross left the stable
to take care Of the string Of the defunct
E. ]. Arnold & Co. IN Rosss day. such
terrific reversals were not common When |
one of the Hughes horses showed a
change in form. It was decidedly for the |
better. as in the case OF Salinda. who was |
developed from a lo-account s2rinter into |
q first-ciass distance performer.
Others OF the Hughes horses showed |
similar Improvement. In McCarthy's
hands. too. some Of the Hughes horses
have improved. as. for instance. Never
such He was a very cheap plater In the
hands Of Mr.. McGuigan. apparently
chronic maiden. yet Mccarthy brought
him along. until he beat some very good
horses. and came within an ace OF beat
Ing the Canadian crack. Reservation. over
at Cincinnati last fall. With a competent
ride. he would probably have dous It Nc