Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-09-04
A GREAT HORSE RACE
The Match Between Salvador and
the SWaybaGk.
HOW TENNY WAS DEFEATED

HOW TENNY WAS DEFEATED
The Clever Piece Of Work That Was
Engineered by Jockey Isaac Murphy.
4 A Coup That Made Salvador the King
Of the Turf by Short Head.
Salvador, great race horse, had beat
In Tenny, mighty runner of the turf,
| b. the Suburban handicap at Sleeps
head Bay. Salvador had also disposed
Of other rivals in that same race, and
they were calling him the king of the
turf when David Pulsifer made pro-
test. He owned the person of Tenny,
and in that horse was wrapped the
pride and the ambitions of the tribe of
Pulsifer =.
So insistent was Pulsifer that Tenny
had no superior in America that he
worked himself into an emotional
challenge and made wager of $1,000
with James B. Haggin that Salvador
could not repeat the performance Of
the Suburban and thrust defeat into
the face of Tenny second time. Thus
it came about that on June day at
Did Sheepshead the great crowd gath
ared to witness a battle of the giants,
and the whole country fingered close
! TO the telegraph wires to get first hand
news of the finish. "
Now, there have been many splendid
stories and at least one good poem
written of that match. Stirring tales
they are, and yet there is one little
yarneone may write even now which,
while it may tarnish in measure the
crown of Salvador, yet gives to Tenny
his due, long overdue, and goes to
show that in this stupendous game OF
horse racing the prize is not always to
the swiftest. Salvador did not beat
Tenny in the match because he ran
bit faster. Tenny had popularity,
and because a Jockey knew Of it and
took fair advantage Of it Salvador had
his white nose in front at the end OF
that remarkable mile and quarter. 1t
was Isaac Murphy, negro knight Of the
saddle, who won the duel Of course
he had the swift and earnest assistance
Of Salvador between his knees, but any
l other boy than Murphy astride Saliva
tor that day would have viewed the
finish from the rear.
fTenny was what you might call
home body. He loved his stable and
It's associations. Run greatly he could
and would; but, given his own horse
way about things, he would never have
been far wanderer from the stall which
gave him shelter. That particular stall
at Sheepshead was just at the middle
Of the second turn Of the track. Tenny
i could see the door invitingly open when
be galloped past on the track. He did
see it on many morning occasions
j when he was taking his work, and
many times he made playful effort
TO leave the track and go through the
/ gap for home before he had finished
bis constitutional. Now and then when
he was having a genuine work out
running distance almost at top speed
The would bear out on the turn and
make real try to slip out and home.
It was that peculiarly OF which
bISWO ASddC 0hui ply AeSh AAAoW ISAs5S'
Isaac feared Tenny in the match.
He told Haggin so frankly. He had
been on Salvador when that horse had
all he could do to beat Tenny in the
Suburban, and he, better than anybody,
knew what foeman Tenny was. flag.
gin was SO filled with confidence born
4 Of his worship Of Salvador that he
/ IN Tc0 20 re-
and had the negro lost the race 1t is
Z my belief that, Haggin woulG have
parted racing company with the blacl
boy. So 1t was that Isaac put himself
10 serious thought, keeping bis counsel
z MS was his habit. When he mounted
i, Cor the match he had what sporting
2 people call an Hace In the hole
& Whether or not that ace would VIII
for him one feeting moment Woult
y tell.
= Both riders had instructions to rul
{, all the way. There were to be no wait
Ing tactics. Speed, speed, speed! wa
to be the way OF the running, and the.
8. made 1t that way. Off from the start
: er's red flag the pair of horses sprane
!. lighting for the freedom Of the bill
4 Head and head they burst through th
I first quarter Of mile, the crowd si1
I ting breathless Then there came
| mild shout from the stand as salys
l tors head and then his neck showed /
front, Gradually the neck became hal
/ the length of Salvatore long bod!
Then it became the whole length, an
Tenny's head was at Salvatore tai
/ ALI this time the pace had been terrific
4 All this time Salvador was surely 9
| deaths coming creeping away frol
Tenny.
That did not vet mean Tenny's d
feat, for Tenny was known as "a grea
stretch runner. He could make hl
last quarter of a mile a tremendous e
fort Salvador went farther away frol
the bay horse, and the daylight bega
to show between them. The pace ws
never slackened. Garrison, on Tenn.
! was rsftanf knowing the stretch RI