San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-09-02

u car and drove up to Saratoga a dis
tance of about Al miles and a man
took us in place where the OnIy way
you could get a cocktail was go up to
the bar and ask for a cocktail.
So after vile we went out to the
races and ] had been told to overlook
the layout and see how beautiful
was it as it is suppose to be the
prettiest race track in the U. 5. but
they was just time to plant a bet on
the first race and then watch it and
| wished now that L had went around
admiring the scenic beauties instead
of being so anxious TO plant bet on
the first race which was horse nam
ed Mirthful that seemed to think the
race track was mass Of detours.
They was one horse that finished be-
hind her and he come in without no
jockey.
Bay Horses and Bay Trees.
Between the first and second races
| had time to admire the scenic Won
ders and the first one TO catch my
eye was Jack Dempsey's new suit
which l asked the ladies on the party
what color was it and they agreed
on mauve. Had quite a nice talk with
the champion and was careful to make
it nice as | don't like to make scene
in front of so many strangers.
Later in the PM. a photographer
insist it on takeing a picture of l and
Jack and Bud Fisher in a group and
when the picture is published, in case
they don't put our names under it,
why l am the one that is standing
next TO the other two.
Also seen Jack Kearns and asked
him what kind of luck he was have
ing and he asked me to shut up.
The second race was a jumping race
and my favorite was horse named
Irish Sea and at the end of the first
mile and IL he was way out in
front and the only way he could loose
the race was to fall down so he fell
down.
After that race my tension was call
cd to how pretty the infield is at this
track so took look at it and sure
enough they have got little lake out
there with a couple of canoes and a
ID dozen swans that looked so nice
and clean but no cleaner than L was
after the races.
Next we was all asked out to the
paddock which amt like the paddocks
at other tracks but at Saratoga they
have got great big forest full of
trees and before every race the differ
ent horses trainers and jockeys picks
out different trees and walks there
horses around them so as everybody
can see them and some of them GER
tainly looked beautiful but when the
ones 1 bet on finely got out on the
track to race they thought they was
still walking around trees.
The trees which the different train
ers picks out for there horses to walk
around amt picked out by no guest
work but if it is a bay horse they
make him walk around bay tree and
a chestnut horse walks around horse
chestnut tree and black horse walks
around a blackberry bush and etc.
All but five horses was scratched
out of the third race and l placed a
modest WAGER on a lady horse named
Last Straw which was where she fin
ished but Brainstorm which was my
choice in the fourth race made n whole
lot better showing as they was only
three horses in the race and only two
of them beat him.
Bud Fishers Hard Luck.
But the fifth race was the feature
of the day as far as we was con-
cerned as they was horse in it nam
ed Hyperion which Bud Fisher had
boughten him and before the race Bud
took us out to watch him walk around
his tree and the best jockey in the
! Z. s. was going to ride him and the
horse walked around the tree in great
form and the people watching him
saws that any horse that walked
around a tree like this horse walked
around n tree was surely worth bet
so pretty near everybody at the track
seemed to be betting on him and finely
the buggle bowed and tho horses went
around to the starting pit. and pretty
| soon the barrier was sprang and we
all looked to see how Hyperion was
doing and they seemed to be something
missing in the picture and il turned
out TO be the best jockey in the U. ).
who had fell off his horse 6 #. from
the barrier and was setting in the
middle of the track rubbing himself.
The track was muddy but the jock
ey was Sande.
Well Hyperion went all the way
around to the finish line but they
wasn't nobody TO whisper sweet moth
ings in his ear and the other entries
was giveing him the horse laugh so