The sun., 1906-01-14

truth. he was rum plCkieu wdllei, "
! had been, who'd lost all of his jobs on ac.
count Of his unreliableness. He had drifted
out to tho track that day with 81 note.
which, by playing that seemed almost inn
beetle, he had parlayed up to something
moro than 5000. The horse had to be
turned over to him for his s5O5 bid,
THE man led the horse himself to the
shed Of . we'll known negro trainer who
was then running public training stable.
The negro trainer recognized the poor
lockers points and started in to train him
exclusively for sprints. The common look
ing nag had remarkable flight Of early
speed that he could easily carry for three
quarters, and the negro trainer sent him
right out and won nine straight sprint races
with him before the horse began to stale
of.
AIn the following year the nag was
ohuoked into overnight handicaps and
condition races with good horses, and he
won oftener than he lost before return OK
the old two-year-old trouble with his legs
put him out Of business. He was one OF
those horses against which the layers were
forever taking a chance, no matter now
we'll he performed every time he started,
and his owner, the former picked waiter,
cleaned up something like $4,000 in bets
on the horse. I saw that former waiter IN
Chicago when was there last spring. He's
the proprietor OF one Of the neatest boulevard
roadhouses in or around Chicago, and. to
look him over now, you'd imagine that
that buns rig in which I'd first clapped
eyes upon him had been a mere makeup.
He isn't picked any more, either, being one
OF those chaps who find good sense with
prosperity.
4At the Aqueduct track three years ago
a man with whom I've since become pretty
we'll acquainted got a horse in bid-up
without afterward remembering anything
about It. He was pretty solid sort OF
chap, who wasn't regular at the tracks, but
played them only occasionally by way OF a
holiday. One day during the spring meet.
Ing at Aqueduct he decided suddenly to
visit the track. He made up his mind 80
suddenly that ne didn't have time to got
his lunch, and he took whole lot of drinks
on an empty stomach by way of compen-
sation.
His stomach was out Of kilter, and an
empty stomach wasn't made to receive
hard booze, anyway, and by the time he
reached the track he was pretty well sudsed
80 much so, in fact, that although he
could navigate all right, he afterward told
me that he hadn't the faintest recollection
OF anything that had occurred to him at
the track tina afternoon.
"In the second race he had slOO bet down
on one Of the track jokes, little gelding
that had never been able to get out Of his
own way before, and the gelding walked
in this day to the tune Of 80 to /. The man
-s.At -, Al.,z
all right when it came to collecting his
winnings, and then he drifted down to the
rail and saw that there was going to be
selling race sale. He felt pretty soft to-
ward that horse that had won him the
So, 900, so no nudged around 10 where the
sale was coming Off
~"The gelding had been entered for 5000
but none OF the owners or trainers around
the Aqueduct cared to take the chance Of
getting the laugh from the others 10y bidding
on such no ccount seeming racing tool.
So when the geldng was put up there
was for minute dead silence.
4'Whos bidding on this mighty specimen
OF the thoroughbred tribe?' the auct ioneer
inquired facetiously.
The man with the souse on was in the
meanwhile talking to himself.
-'Durned shame. thash whash-nicesh
III horses like that an ev'body givin'
him laugh Shame. Amt goin shtan'
f'r it. Lii horscsh winsh me bank roll,
Whash it up t mo t do? Wy, bid fr
horsesh, thash ALL and he swayed up to
point where the auctioneer could see him,
raised his right forefnger and said i bid
thousnan'.'
"The auction hesitated about knock
ing horse down to man so obviously
edged up, but the man insisted that lis
offer was made on the level. and the horse
fell to him A trainer tha. he knew led
the horse away to his shed and offered to
look after him. The gedins, the new
owner found out was entered for another
race on the following day, So he told the
trainer to run him. and handed him $500
to bet on the horse at any old price, no
matter how big or how little,
Think III shleep late t'morrow,' he
said to the trainer, and won't shee the
rucesh, but you run him and bet on him all
OF that five hundred, SHEEP
AT 7 o'clock the next evening the man,
with little idea OF what he had done the
day before, and no recollection Of any Of the
Incidents at the racetrack, was poking
around his ba ohelor fiat, feeling pretty
punk, but getting ready to go out. He
hadn't been out at all that day. Then his
fiat bell tinkled and the trainer to whom
he had handed over the horse stroled in,
looking pretty easy.
why hello, there Buck said the
man who had been lying up with his head
nll day, not in the least remembering hav-
ing seen the trainer the day before. What
fetches you along? Got something goodP
l went out to the track yesterday and like
an ass, drank lot Of rot on an empty
stomach. and I've been feeling punk all
day Sit down.
"The trainer looked him over with a
laugh.
"'Did you have anything left Of that
wad when you reached home last night?
he asked the man.
What wad?' was the quick inquiry
OF the other, who was still In his dressing
gown, and the trainer explained about
the roll he had won on the gelding, with
out. however, saying anything about the
purchase Of the horse.
The man in the dressing gown picked
up the coat he had worn the day before,