The New York herald., 1921-05-09
WRONG HORSE WON
RACE FOR BRADLEY
Owner and Friends Stood to
Win More Than S500,00O
if Servant Won.
INSTRUCTIONS NOT GIVEN
Thompson Rode Behave Your
self to Victory in Derby to
Get Bonus Of $4, 900.
INSTRUCTIONS NOT GIVEN

F. r. Bradley, owner Of the Idle
Hour Stock Farm of Lexington, KY,
and Of the famous Beach Club of Palm
Beach, Fla, missed winning a fortune
on Saturday when his horse Black
Servant failed to win the Kentucky
Derby at Louisville, although another
horse from his stable, Behave Your
self, won the race and Black Servant
finished second. He received almost
s50.000 as the prize for winning the
race. but he lost many times that
much because he had made a bad bar
gain with his jockeys and failed to
collect the bets he had laid on Black
Servant with the winter books in New
York and Chicago.
SO far as is known Mr.. Bradley lost
nothing in actual cash, because his
bets on the stable just before the race
probably covered him, but there is no
telling how much he would have won
had the fates been kind to him. It
was common gossip on Broadway last
night that Mr.. Bradley. members Of
his stable forces and his friends would
have won between 100000 and $780,
600 had Black Servant won the race.
Racing men believe that Mr.. Bradley
intended all along that Black Servant
was to win the race over Behave Your
self II possible In proof of this they
point to the fact that he gave the mount
on Black Servant to Jockey Lawrence
Lyke. the best rider in his stable, while
he put Thompson on Behave Yourself.
Lyke Is q star rider and everyone knows
IL: Thompson won glory for himself on
Saturday. but before that ne was an un-
known quantity. with a reputation IN Tia
Juana, but none on the American tracks.
But to make both boys ride to win Mr..
Bradley told them he would give the
winning jockey $4,000 and the loser
$1,000. He expected Lyke to win with
Black Servant and hoped that Thompson
would finish second with Behave Your
self. He nominated neither horse TO
win for his stable. in which case it would
have been perfectly legitimate for the
jockey on the other to have pulled up In
the stretch
But the thing that really caused Mr..
Bradley and his employees and friends
the loss of more than half million
dollars was his failure to follow the
usual custom when big money is offered
10 Jockeys II they ride winning races.
That is. to offer. say. $4,000 to the two
of thom and tell them that they VIII
each get half, no matter which horse
wins, but to see that the stable wins.
and then nominate horse TO win and
have the other jockey pull II the stable
has the race safe and the nominated
horse has a chance. If that had been
done Saturday Thompson would have
pulled Behave Yourself In the home
stretch. and Lyke would have gone home
with Black Servant winner.
But IL is apparent that Mr.. Bradley
neither nominated one OF his horses, nor
did he give tho riding instructions that
were TO have been expected, aftor bets
OF such size had been laid. AS result.
Thompson WAS riding not only 20 win
with Behave Yourself and make a repu-
tion as n Derby winner. but he was rid
ing for $4,000 in cash
Reports In racing circles last night
had 1t that Mr.. Bradley and others with
him began to back Black Servant with
an occasional bet on Behave Yourself.
away back last spring, after the former
had beaten Leonardo II, In the Blue
Continued on sevomeorth Pc1e.