The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-06-03

ss'Ia sg1tles ,eo many lass ifom congress
sod me tsalsla,ufes he cUtnuHtnted
II aent %prafass ~ Hnpw ahythrra abo,it
thst. but ws' ~ SIRE eaftins plenty ~ naS
TUT isw ahd rules N late yraes, Estscle'ly
rflea they rsn't MAKE any rules hs'
Won't abhle Nv n ran Thefe's M ltas
IN hlcklna N lhey nske q fule feTilelaa
trainers 10 rae their lerth alone IN sastaltne
thew hosnea I'm theirs eth q stab ~ W,
sayWaV nevef knaw q h0ruHfnan 10 aet
anythlna Nv ttickiBa ti,eas edlcta I'm
here ~ 9 ny IN the business even " they
frame no q fuis requiring ~ 10 school o'f
horres 10 run thelf facea backward
sBut, willis they'rc sitting up oyefsltns
10 roll THESES fulc pllls, why wOuldnt " be
q prg,ty good Job 10 keep everybody ous
Of the paddock eScop. tho reuple directly
ooncerned In handling the hor"'@'
Il never could as any good rcson why,
for tho payment ~ n few blts more, the
general public should he admitted TO the
paddochs ~ rGcetraCks, Most OF the
people Who nudge into a paddock have no
buaineas whatever there, They're simply
In the way.
Not one out OF u hundred ~ them knows
anybody In tho paddock who's cted
with the running Of the horses, They
simply stand around and pose n look wise
A good IN any Of them ask fool questions.
Others butt In with suggestions TO trainers
that would earn them sound kickings else
where. Some Of the fat conks fan up ao-
~auaintanceships with rubbers and stable
hands, from whom they get punk tips. and
then they h otfoot out into the grand stand
and betting ring and drool that they've got
these tips dir ect from the trainers.
sThe paddock visiting habit Is calculated
10 make great liars out Of men who are
| ordinarily as truthful as their %neighbors'
Not q few Of these wise owls who prowl
around racetraok paddocks because their
badges give them that privilege take IL for
granted that everybody connected with
the horseracing business Is crook, and they
say things In acting upon that presumption
| that would fetch them many a hard slap
| right on the cuff IL the folks handling horses
didn't fear the rule off thing for getting into
alterations Of this kind.
sJust why these drifters in q paddock
should expect people engaged in rao ing
horses as O business to answer their idiotic
and often impertinent questions Is a thing
I could never dope out. l wouldn't
walk into a store and ask the proprie-
tor IL he expected to have his books show
him q profit at the end OF the season.
[ wouldn't tap a bank president on the left
| shoulder blade and inquire il he considered
| his plant solvent. But people that trainers
| Of racehorses nave never before seen in
| their ives consider it the right kink TO
| bulge along and toss the sauciest kind OF
| questions at them, and when they get q
hot come back for theirs they look as abused
as il somebody had spanked them on the
pulse with a mash mixer.
Il was saddling one Of my string for the
| promenade to the post the other afternoon
when an airy looking duck wearing n
| Of those Leghorn hats with a piece OF pink
| Turkish towening draped around 1t came
| up behind me and got me to look around by
| boxing me in the small Of the back with
the feruie Of his swish stick. hi move
alone was enough to get me some feverish
around the fchu-it was just as il he'd seen
O field teyrapin struggling on his back and
had used his cane to turn him over, shell up.
IsWhen I turned around he was there with all
the geniality.
s.Well, Dave he said to me-and you're
to remember that I'd never olapped a lamp
on him in my life before-'Well, Dave, is
this one meant to-dayf pointing to the
| horse I was saddlng for the race.
Il ask you, man to man., were the boots
coming to that fatnut, or weren't theyP
Il couldn't trust myself to say one word
to that one. II I'd opened my face at him
| at all I'd have burned that Leghorn hat and
the hair under 1t right OF his head. and I
knew it. So 1 kept still and went ahead
with my saddhng, and he strolled away,
swishing his stick and whlstling with much
enjoyment. They can't be snubbed, you
see. That n probably tackled half q
| dozen trainers in about the same way after
| he left me, and all Of them, no doubt, had the
same difficulty to restrain themselves from
kicking his neoktie around sideways.
Another OF the same breed nudged into
my stable office before the first race on an
afternoon at Gravesend last year. I'd never
seen him before, but l thought he might be q
friend OF somebody for whom I was train
ing, and so / got up from my desk. He held
up q warning finger, and then he whispered
to me 10 get the four or five stable hands
hanging around in front away from the
stable entrance. / began to get hep then.
s'What for3' I asked him. They're
working here. They know everything that
goes on around here as well as / do. I'm
pretty busy. What do you want?
q 'Sh-shl' he Kissed, tiptoeing over to
my desk. 'Sh-shl Not &c loud. This
thing can be done quietly. No need for
anybody to know a thing about 1t but U.s.
s'out with it, said L. I'm a busy man
to-day. What do you wantf'
.'Well,' he whispered, then leaning over
my desk, you've got one in the third race
to-day that1l be a sure favorite and thatn
probably win, haven't your
Pm running a horse in the third race
to-day I said. What's that to your
'Sh-shi' he went again. Wait a minute.
Lookee. Now, I've got a friend-hnest
fellow you ever met, t~oo-you'd like him
IL you met him-I've got a friend who took
o to / against the one thatll be second
choice In that third race. He bet 1000
on 1t last night. Now, you seer 1t means
ak thousand bucks to this friend Of mine
bulliest fellow you ever saw, too-if your
horse-er-you mow-just happens to-
er-weli, you savvy all right, don't your
And this friend Of mine always does the
fright thing. He's no snitoher. II the
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