Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-02
dreamed the wrong dream on Dreamer on
that sad day-for them.
Coups That Didn't "Cop."

Coups That Didn't coop"
"Then there is another class of owners
that go to the other side Of the question.
and who think their coups must surely cop
every time. Lord Of the Vale, a horse well
known at the Benning meetings, on his
race with Martin Doyle at Aqueduct, look
ed to be real lead-pipe cinch a few days
ago. The conditions permitted him to get
in with only 1O7 pounds, and his Aqueduct
race, which was the first since the Graves
end spring meeting, made him stand out
the hotels and the Pennsylvania avenue re-
sorts for the thirsty was Lord of the
Vale. Lord Of the Vale was a red-hot
favorite. Only five horses ran against him,
money that only a few were allowed to
get the to 5 laid at opening time and the
big plungers swallowed the 8 to 20 at
post time as II 1t were candy money for
sure. To all intents and purposes Lord Of
the Vale is still running, for Alex Shields
Onatas, with Miller up, beat him easily
and the bookies sighed and kept the money.
"One of the biggest coups of the meeting
was planned on Tanager, a western horse
brought here from Latonia by Phil Chinn.
Tanager had run some good races on the
western circuit, and the Chinn contingent
had planned secret killing with him.
bucketsful, forced the price down from to
l to Ii to 5, but Tanager stopped to make
some new acquaintances somewhere en-
route to the wire, and the killing didn't
come off as scheduled.
Stray Thoughts Still Astray.
The Haymans thought they had a sure
thing in Leonard Joe Hayman their shifty
three-year-old, so he was primed for a kill
ing of big dimensions. The laxative ones
in the aforesaid resorts for the dry-throat-
ed racing toilers thought so, too, SO the
in "a
was to the next day. A ton of money
sent the figures down to even money-and
it all stopped in the bookies' pockets as
certainly Leonard Joe stopped in the
stretch
And a well-pianned coup on Pioneer, the
jumper, went to pieces and at the same
time cleaned out the pockets of the Penn
sylvania avenue thirsty pony buckers. Pho
neer had schooled so well over the jumps
that the smart ones voted him the race in
advance Barrels of the wise money were
burned up on the thoughtless Pioneer, who
inconsderately stumbled, and to the regret
of his Disguised wise hackers, didn't break
his neck at the first jump.
and Pete Daley, the invincible winner
at the Hunts meeting few weeks ago. was
another good thing that couldn't finish
better than last when the wise ones played
him at this meeting And to show you
how we forget in this business, there was
Banker, who won the Benning Special, with
Miller up, at the long and false odds of II
to l. Yet Banker won the same race last
year with the same jockey up in two sec
onds faster time-that's forgetting things,
with vengeance.
"On the other hand a big killing was
pulled off on Workman. with Miller up,
while the Schmidts sent Gladiator down to
New Orleans and fairly burned up the ring
in big coup, getting to l for their easy
money Madden's colt, Temmeraire, was
another good thing that went through on
time, but in a great majority of these
coups' and killings the money stays with
the bookmakers."