The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-06-12
RINGERS AT THE RGCETRACK
TRAIL or A MAN WIN DYED
CHIN WHISPERS.
An Attempted sWindis ~ Jamaica and
BriEhion-ENDosure % . Canadian
". P.-snceesaful Cases Of Ringing
-Emeetl,e NoFk by the JOckey Ciub.

1t is some time since a successful
ringing coup has been brought on around
tic prominent racetracks.- remarked
ah,s veteran az Gravesend Ia a crowd Of
nsSsnsrs a few days ago, and guess
ne punishment invariably meted out
10 the guilty has kept those who would
..Ee 20 Jake a chance under subsection.
Nos on the trotting tracks the trick
az substituting a good horse for an in
fUriOT animal Ia met with much more
frequently. for there are 80 many small
towns where meetings are held and the
chance Of being found out IL 10 remote
that the board % review 81 the National
Trotting HORSE Association usually has
pretty heavy docket to dispose Of.
but when you take into consideration
the number Of meetings given under
its jurisdiction you must give Secretary
Gochsr and his scouts credit for keeping
their sport pretty clean.
England has had lie share Of that
sort Of deception. and everybody who
knoWs anything about racing abroad
has heard Of Running Rein's Derby
The worse case that remember. that is
considering the prominence ofthe persons
implicated in u. occurred at Toronto
at the spring meeting II the Ontario
Jockey Club in the early 'SOs
Among those who raced there that
year was a Member Of Parliament who
stood we'll in his o~n community, AZ his
election To the House would Indicate.
n. - Il
IN the fourth race on the saturday on
which the meeting closed The starter
~ the meeting was an American who
had worked for many years on the tracks
IN the United States. He noted that the
candidate from the Canadian Parliamen-
tArian's stable wore a short shoulder
wrap. and he got down on the ground
While waiting for the other horses 10
come to the post and engaged the rider
Il the horss in conversation.
while chatting with the jockey the
caicial turned up q corner II tho shoulder
wrap and found the imprint Of q horse
shoe scared into the shoulder Of the ami
nal. He asked the boy few questions
about the gelding. and the information
vas vouchsafed that the horse had been
reared on the ranch Of his owner in the
northwestern portion Of Canada and the
horsnahoe was simply the brand used
there. When asked why the shoulder
wrap was worn tho jockey said that the
horse suffered from rheumatism. and ~
the dag Was raw and cold-the wind was
eweepin- across from Lake Ontario-the
covering had been put on purely a. q
precaution.
The starter had read the season before
about a notorious ringer named Post
Odds being caught ~ 50. Louis and that
the authorities there had branded him
on either shoulder with a horseshoe
Looking the Eelding over still more criu-
cally. he discovered that both Of the ami
mails hind legs had been dyed a dirty
chestnut color 10 match the rest Of thu
coat.
Without making any display the on
Cial sent a hystander whom he could
trust ~ the judges stand with the infor-
nation he possessed. and suggested that
no bets should 10 paid on on the event
until his return. The horses were sent
away and the chestnut gelding was beaten
neck The Judges kept the horse At the
stand until the starter returned He was
telling his story 20 the officials when the
owner. a very distinguished looking man.
came along
-Ho was much excited and Indignantly
asked Why suspicion Of vrongdoing
should he cast upon him. One Of the
governors II the Ontario Jockey Club.
who has about as thorough a knowledge
Of veterinary science az any man nov
living. stood by and gravely asked the
starter II he hadn't made a mistake. The
matter ~ the horseshoe brands the owner
explained a. his rider had. but when the
attention Of the veterinarian was called
10 the coloring matter on the hind legs
and the ow ner stammsred that 10 had hsen
nut there 20 kill splints the canny scotch
man shook his head slowly and said
Nae. nae. Master - horses have
no splints on their hind legs.
An investigation was begun, and Il
developed that the gelding. Warbler was
thu name he had started under. bad come
into the Dominion II CANADA by way u
Detroit and Windsor only a couple oi
weeks before. This was not in keeping
eth the story told by the Member. who
insisted that Warbler had come direct
fram Winnipeg. that he had been raced
In the Northwest and that he had heen
foaled on a ranch owned bv him west Of
Calgary. The chain u evidence formed
BY the Ontario Jockey Club confirmed the
suspicious u lie Official and Warbler was
positively identified rs the ringer Post
Odds
The influential Member 81 Parliament.
Who was a lawyer. was ruled % the turf.
and not long afterwaTi no sold all his
POSSESSIONS In the town where he was
once a power and emtgrated 20 the far
West. where he died a few years ago.
There undoubtedly had been a horse
known a. Warbler. and he had 70 doubt
borne a striking enough resemblance 10
Post Odds. IN Tact, about the first thing
your ringing hor.enan does Ia 90 find a
no accoun; horse that looks like a good
one. and the rest wasn't 80 hard few
years ago.
-For some time. though the Jockey
Tub authorities In 'hs Fast have not per
mitted any horse 90 start on their tracks
unless he he's been positively identified Nv
\ reputsbls borsemsn. The last time the |
scheiners tried 10 put one over In this
vicinity was Al Jamaica FIVE years ago.
VII was during the autumn meeting
hat mysterious looking individual who
Norr glasses and had a scraRgy chin beard |
II bhe black hue, the color telling in /.
iTimfet tones that the minister's were
dyed showed up with q forlOm looking
brown EeldinE which he said was Gaia. /
rtr hv Nagam. There was more than a
Suspicion that the horse known as Cat !
aTa,'. which the authorities were per. /
E.ittsd 10 look over was really that horse
lST' y hnally leaked ont that there was |
another horse IN tho same stable that had /
strong resemblance 10 the supposed |