The Washington herald., 1911-06-04
TROTTER AND PAGER

noon, which will make the roadbed less
dangerous to the rubber tires Of the We
hicles used. THUS far racing on the
Speedway has been quite costly to those
who have used the course.
Louis Hodges and ]. A. Jones are re-
ceiving specials by wire from Trainer
Browley. who is at the Belmont track.
Philadelphia, in regard to the improve
ment of Flexina and Miss Kushan. The
contents Of some of the dispatches have
leaked out. as far as the public is con-
cerned, and certain remarks by the own
ers of the respective horses would in
dicate that they will soon be going around
with chips on their shoulders.
Charles Weaver has returned to the
horse game. The loss Of Green Boy has
teen filled by the purchase by Harry
Bowling for him Of mare by King Red
wood that can trot holes through the
circumambient atmosphere as big as q
haystack.
It is expected that race-hungry trotting
people in this vicinity will turn out in
large numbers for the coming meeting al
Prospect Park! June will be busy
month on near-about tracks.
If 1t would not precipitate heart fall
ure. the managers of the Laurel track
would greatly facilitate its success by a
little more Nberality and a good deal
more of whiz and zip.
Local horsemen are now wondering
whether that stake race for three-year-
olds, proposed by a certain individual, is
also to be family" affair.
1t is rumored that Harry Palmer, OF
this city, may take over the Burke track
for the Fourth of July and Labor Day
meets and give the track over to the run
ners almost exclusively.
If II were possible to compel men who
deal in horses carrying any breeding
worth mentioning. especially in mares
trotting bred. TO give a sworn affidavit OF
their blood lines before they were sold
there would not be so many "unknowns
floating about the country; and. by the
same parity of reasoning. pedigree ex.
perts would have less TO do and horse
owners would be the richer for 1t.
The bane of trotting tracks is the men
who bet on race or heat from to z
cents. and then when their horse falls
70 come in in the place where they think
he should. crowd about the judges stand
in O. disorderly mob and try to browbea,
! the judges into declaring all bets OF
.
the most unsatisfactory person to have
around race track.
Some men are born to luck: otheri
tumble into success by accident. We
once knew a man who bought a mare be-
cause she was cheap and looked good
Blood lines did not bother him: in fact
pedigree reading, BY the town bull
would have satisfied him. The mare
proved TO possess extreme speed and
raced TO a low record. Whereupon the
man sat himself on a high perch and
swelled Ike toad with assumed wisdom
He bought other horses in the course OF
time; some OF them proved fairly good
investments. others burned him to a
crisp. This did not lessen by any means
his arrogance a few, as ignorant as
himself, kow-towed to him in the Chinese
fashion, but. with the community al
large he lost his grip for reasons easily
explained Had he lived in dear = old
Washington he would have been put next
TO himself in short order. Fortunately
for himself. he lived in far off Kalama zoo
where people are more tolerant, and this
perhaps, saved his life. Moral: One horse
does not make a horseman.