Evening star., 1907-08-18
customer back his bill, saying, Make II
nve, governor No less taken here"
Walls and Kennyette's Henchmen.

~AAS oha denCNmen.
laugh followed at the expense OF the
FARMER. who, plainly nettled, went down in
his pocket and. pulling out a roll Of hun
ared-dollar bills. handed five of them to
SOL with the remark, "AI right mister.
make 1t five then" and the now smiling
layer called out to his sheet writer '.Fleyen
hundred to five hundred Walls. Put II down
to Rip Van Wrinkle" And the knot OF peo-
pie around gave the old graybeard a cheer
as he stuffed the rest OF his money in his
jeans and walked off to get a seat in the
grand stand
After Walls had won the thousands in ths
grand stand and lawn saw an old country
man with gray beard dancing hornpipe
ana war dance combined as lie gathered
around MIN group of other rustics evil
uently friends and acquaintances The en-
tire bunch shouted. "Hurrah for Walls, hur-
rah for the Sandfords, hurrah for dear Old
Amsterdam" And then started en- masse
stand.
The old farmer did not wait to get in line.
but going up to "Sop' shouted "Whoop
her out, mister Whoop her out I NAV
look like Rip Van Wrinkle, but there's no
fiies on me; Hand out that s16oO and hand
it out quick for we uns have TO catch the
next car for Amsterdam. And Sol" look
ing as sour as vinegar, handed" Safe to
say that the next time countryman hands
him 81 on Sandford horse he will take it
quick without any back talk
An ever larger delegation of the Amster-
dam rustics' came up Thursday ana
unbelted to their last dollar on the fleet
sanford mare kennyette in the Huron
handicap. in which she was pitted against
such fast performers as Tourenne
Temaceo, Dashaway and others. From now
on to the end OF the meeting the Sanford
horses and their big band Of home hench-
men will be closely watched by race
goers and bookmakers
Colin wins race after race in such hollow
style that If he does not go amiss the great
lyC F-n.. Al
Sheepshead, looks at his mercy with la5
pounds, the weight he will have to carry
He had ~ pounds up in the Grand Union
stake and was given 100 In the Hopeful
stake today, looking as IL he could carry
140 and still win the Futurity
After Miller got down from the white
legged, white-faced warrior In the paddock "
he said to Owner Keene, as he patted the
brown colt affectionately, ''Ths Is the best
and most sensible two-year-old l ever
rode had to hit him twice with the whip
at the head Of the homestretch to get him
to come away from that Gaffney colt, but
In three or four jumps he gained a length
and then loafed with me again, as much as
to say that he would do what was neces-
sary but no more" Needless to say that
Owner keene was an appreciative and in
terested auditor to his Jockeys comment on
the colt.
Favorttes Reward Public Backers.
Public form has been fairly consistent this
week. nearly fifty per cent Of the events
going to favorites and well-backed second
choices. The two-year-olds Nimbus, Mar
bles and All Alone have shown themselves
safe betting propositions by their repeat
ing" qualities. landing some Of the plungers'
wagers away up In the thousands, while
contrariwise big Sullivan plunger on Sim
gle Stone Tuesday failed through the colts
bleeding during the race.
As sample of some Of the heavy specu-
lation here D. c. Johnson bet Bookmaker
Cowan $1,000 to $2,400 on Single Stone and
placed $1,000 more with other layers at the
same rate, while Bookmaker Donnelly paid
out $12, 600 to Nimbus men Tuesday without
so much as winking an eye. While the EN-
pire city meeting has taken few from here.
there Is money in plenty In the market if
the layers want to accept It.
Other fairly consistent horses such as
Dreamer, Nealon, Sewell and the Colt stee-
plechasers have enabled public hackers to
hold their own during the week. Fred Cook
also cut q fafr-slzed melon with the winter
performer Missouri, the horses work here
having been so good that the pu Jlic knew
as much about his chance as did his trainer,
and he was a heavily y-backed favorite.
Nealon, the Suburban winner, showed
wednesday by taking up 128 pounds and
kee Girl into the ground in close to record
time at a mile and three-sixteenths that he
Is about as good now as when he landed
oneepSneaQS star event. PenarlS was
heavily played to beat him, but ran such a
poor race that his owners say they will put
him over the jumps.
With Good and Plenty. Phantom and most
Of the Hitchcock jumpers out of the way, ].
w. Colts "leppers'' are cutting a swath
here. Successive victories of late by Com
modore Fontaine Paprika and others of his
string have increased the Geneseo turfman's
stable winnings for the season thus far to
close to S35, 600. large amount for steeple-
chasers to have won with the season only a
little over half gone.
Now that the palaces of chance" here are
in full operation there Is little danger of an
exodus to Empire City. Racegoers. horse
owners and other patrons Of this American
Monaco seem to want action" nights as
well as days, and now that they have the
opportunities desired they will stick to Sara
toga. Judged by the large crowds at the
track every day this week patronage will be
well maintained all through the rest OF the
month. c. c. p.