Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-07-22


with the money down in all the big rooms
west. The starter had been oiled, and he
sent the gelding away with about nve
lengths the best of it. The geidins didn't
need that advantage, at that, for ten min
utes before saddling time he'd been staked
to enough hurry-up soup to make an as
phalt engine beat the Empire State express
The run-Quick juice was all but running out
of his ears when he reached the barrier. At
Iron Hill they were all busy In the betting
ring till the minute the flag was dropped,
and the partners idea that nobody would
pay any attention to their ringer geldng
was kee-rect The gelding came home all
alone. OF course the fayorite players
howled, but they howled In the betting
ring, and didn't dream of taking peek at
the gelding 1t had been seen by all hands
that the ringer gelding had beat the barrier,
and 1t was of course the general opinion
that the winner, which they supposed to be
the out-of-form mare. had been treated to
plenty of CELEBRITY bouillon, but that was
common at Iron Hill. and nobody bucked
about 1t. It was found that the partners
hadn't bet cent on the mare In the Iron
Hill betting ring. all of their kale going
down at the long price at the western pool
rooms. The gelding. after coping. was
led away in a lather to the barn where
the mare was. The mare had been given
a couple of powders TO sweat her ont and
give her a foamy hide, in case anybody
should drop over TO the barn to look her
over after the race, when she could be
pointed out, wringing wet, as II Just cool
ing out aItST a race. But nODOQy GTOppeQ
around, and the job was over and finished.
slick as wet fiddle string. and all worked
on pure gall.
That wasn't such a deep one for Iron
HilI, at that. l saw a six-year-old stallion
run there as a two-year-old, win and his
owner take down a lump of paper change
the size of a Shanghai rooster. The folks
in the judges stand were In on this one,
though, or maybe 1t wouldn't have got by.
You see, all of the two-year-olds at Iron
Hill were pretty close to three Year-o'd DIS
on account OF the racing there being pulled
off late in the year, so that the difference
between their sizes and the size of the six
year-old wasn't so great as 1t might have
been. But the six-year-old was good
one from the legitimate tracks that was
Wintering at Pimiico and that the folks be-
for the job. He outclassed the bunch of
mutt two-year- by the difference be-
tween here and the Culebra cut. OF course,
he got christened outlaw name before
reaching Iron Hill. Before the six-year-old
got there the man behind the Job had been
giving 1t out what a big two-year-o'd he
had, an overgrown lubber. he called him,
that he'd been unable to race at all because
OF his being overgrown and gross. He
spread that story around just for a plant
of course. The Iron Hill judges expected
to be let in on these little jobs. and they
were let In on this one. because the man
running 1t felt that they might get next
to the size and conformation of the six
year-oId that ne was importing from PM
leo and crab the gag II they weren't there
for a slice of the pot. So he told 'em In
advance of the race what going to
come off and their end was just as much
they cared TO put down in the out-of
town poolrooms.
1.-The big six-year-old tow-roped the
bunch OF course, and won with the boy
all but riding side-saddle, just to kid the
49,.
when the big winner was brought back
to weigh in, though, three or four sore
horsemen, who'd bet on other things in the
race, saw by his conformation that he
wasn't any two-year-oId or anything like
it.
'RingerT one OF them bawled up at the
judges stand That's an old horse He's
no more two-year-oId than me aunt IN
Ireland
'G'wanr called out one of the judges
from his stand. Go chase yerselfr
"'Oh, you're in, hey? yelped the sore
horseman. 'Whatchoo gettin' FIR yours2
Went away while you can or out the
gate you go and your flock of NUTS with
you. replied the judge. who wanted to have
repose so that he could have time to figure
up how much he'd won himself on the six
year-old.
I'm the meantime the big six-year-old
was being led away.
Lemme have look at his teet'r de-
risiveIy yelled the suspicious horseman
who was doing the talking for the other
suspicious ones.
IN give you thump in the teetI' was
the amiable response of the Judge and by
that time the winner was in the shelter of
his shed. and ali of the chaw around the
betting ring didn't make any difference.
Nobody ever got anything by gnawlng on
the poncho after one OF these things had
come off at Iron Hill. and, though the yip-
zap got all around the place that a ringer
siX-year- had been pulled through pos
ing as a two-year-oid, nothing was done.
The judges issued their usual formal state
ment' In cases of this or a similar kind, to
the effect that they had Investigated the
rumors found no foundation for the same
and the Incident was terminated, as we say
at the foreign Office, bloime me
Il saw that runaway gag worked at
Iron Hill, too, for a chunk of the zinc big
enough to sheathe the bottom of q cata-
maram. 1t was put through later on at
Wheeling and some OF the other outlaw
merry go-rounds, but iron Hill deserves all
of the credit due for this great rig-up.
Almost everything else had been slid
along there. and the boys who were tossing
on their couches o. nights trying to dope
out now gags for annexing the spinach
TFere at their wits end when one of them
unraveled this frame-up and put IT over
the first pop.
He had two three-year-olds, half broth