Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-03
SPEEDY HORSES THAT GET SORE ON
THE WORLD TANTALIZE BETTORS
was on edge they made him top-heavy
favorite for the race.

was on edge they made him top-heaVy
favorite for the race.
Away In the Bad
"The keenan, rogue got off in front
and just tin canned along In that direc-
ton, leading by eight or ten lengths to
the middle of the stretch, and at that
point he was going as easy as a Stag
train bound down steep grade and all
brakes off. Then he suddenly pinned his
ears and began to fail his tail up and
down, and then he stopped so suddenly
that his boy almost went over his head.
keenan, deliberately permitted every
other horse In the race to pass him. and
1t was estimated that the story of his
renewed sweetness of temper, which
his trainer really believed in himself,
cost the Calcutta bettors that day some-
thing like million of our money.
"Still another great American race
horse that developed into an utterly Inn
possible rogue before being shipped from
this country to race in England was the
Dwyers' shifty Sly Fox, that raced
around the New York tracks nine or ten
years ago. 1t was toward the latter part
of his 3-year-old career that Sly Fox
developed the sulky disposition that aft
erward made him SO notorious in Eng
land. He'd been campaigning lot dur
ing his first two years on the turf and
when he began to curl up under steady
racing his trainer did the usual things
that are tried to nip the sulky bug in
horses from the beginning. But SLY Fox,
horse that possessed one of the most
dazzling turns of speed ever seen in an
American thoroughbred, went from bad
to worse before being shipped to Eng
land.
Left at the Post
"As soon as he faced the flag in an
actual race he's begin to prop himself
like billy goat that thinks he can stop
a trolley car, and then the bettors who'd
gone to the horse on the theory that he
might act as nice in a race as in his
gallops, had to groan in spirit to see Sly
Fox get left at the post almost every
time.
II was one of the unwise ones always
taking chances on Sly Fox In the days
when his temper was first beginning to
sour before he left this country for Eng
land. The horses price went up in every
race, of course, when the layers saw
what a cinch it was that he wouldn't
get off or run anything like the race he
was capable of running, but I always
felt for the chance that some day old
Sly Fox would change his mean mind and
fool them all.
Il was III lldl Sldle Oh mlnQ one Qay
when 1 dropped into a pool room in
Chicago. where / was preparing horse
for the American derby just to take
look at the board, and saw Sly Foxs
name chalked UP among the starters in
stake race on a New York track
when / noticed that they were Offer
ing 20 to against him. ! was particularly
in mind to take chance on the rogue.
That struck me as being all out of line
on the SLY Fox horse, no matter how
badly he'd been acting, and so l dug into
the pajamas and brought out so to bet
on him. A number of cronies who were
with me joshed me, but l showed in the
so and got a 81 to $50 ticket TO hold in
my hand while the agonizing calling off
of the race was being done by the
operator
Sly Fox at 20 to
"Unable to stand their rough guying
in those circumstances. especially as they
had all played Warrenton to cop-and