The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1941-01-17


/. How or where can they dig up
horse which can prevent Challedon
from cracking Seabiscuit's all-time
money record with SO much gold to
shoot at?
2. Will there be truer racing form
in the wake of the recent jockey
scandal when so many alert riders
were located in the pay of crooked
gamblers, who had no trouble pick
ing winners in advance?
This latter system gives the pick
er, ON the inside, great chance for
a mop-up. The main idea is that he
can't miss, which is at least finan-
cially sound. So those who are ON
the outside, meaning only SO per
cent, who were badly stung, are now
waiting to see what will happen.
Which means that beaten favor
ties, even those beaten on the
straight level, will be regarded with
deep suspicion unless the normal
average above IS per cent is MAIN
tanned.
Around. the East this favorite
average was dropping down to
something like Is per cent or less
or the size of your hat. Don't think
the East was any too pure.
This Jockey Stuff
can say this much. In Jerry
Geisler, California has one Of the
best and smartest chairmans Of
racing commission the sport has
ever known. He is both completely
honest and just as able.
With sportsmen such as Carleton
Burke and others on the lookout,
Santa Anita has built up every
known precauti0n against cheating.
It will take an extra shrewd manip-
ulator or an extra clever jockey to
open some new form Of chiseling.
There is nearly always chiseling in
racing, wrestling and the fight game.
They Just happen to be built along
those lines, in so many ways. It's
vital part Of the trade like poll
tics. ~. 3
It SO happens that racing has the
widest gap Of all-the drop from such
sportsmen as AL Vanderbilt, Carle-
ton Burke, Charley Howard, Bill Boe-
ing and many others to jockeys and
| few trainers, who happened to
| be lured by the fragrant 0dor Of
| easy, II tainted, cash.
Racing is thrilling sport. On the
average it carries far more thrills
for those who have 81 across or $40
on the nose, than any other sport.
/ +. It is no way to make any money.
/ Anyone who thinks he can beat IL
| per cent is what you might call
comical i'm the cup0la. Ask Colonel
| Bradley about the extreme difficult
ties of beating 81 per cent at rou-
lette. Or even steady 4 per cent.
/ But as long as the men and wofn-
| en-, the boys and the girls, like to
have their 'whirl, why try. to stop
them? You can't, anyhow.
Back to Santa anita
Doc Strube, general manager Of
| the Santa Anita track, figures this
will be his best year. He has flock
of purses that run from $4,000 to-
| 100000, including several $50, 900
tests. This naturally has brought
out full share Of the best horses,
in an off year.
They have brought in crack thor
oughbreds from all over the bombed
and unbombed world to run for all
| this money, including three Of Eng
lands best. st. Andrews II from
the British Isles has run the mile
and a quarter in 1:59ss, which is
motorcycle time.
But the shadow of Challedon, the
| Brann Blaster, the Maryland Spe-
cial, still hangs over Kayak II, Mo
land and others now pointing for the
main swag.
The 1910 opening was technically
or officially known as gala event,
wherein a flock Of motion picture
stars shared the spotlight with good
horses and more than 5000, 900 flow
| er blooms, not including orange
groves shadowing the rim Of the
| track.
Inspiring as these flowers, noun
tains and orange groves are to argus
eyed tourists, they are merely in
cidental to most of the fans who
come here to watch the horses.
| Track Surroundings
could tell you again about the
snow-capped peaks that hover over
the tropical blooms around the
track, where they can handle $4,000
spectators without too much crowd
ing.
could write more about Bing
Crosby, Louis B. Mayer, Loretta
| Young, Pat O'Brien, Joe e. Brown,
Guy Kibbee-in fact, about all the
beauty and chivalry. all the glamour
and oomph Of Hollywood, which ] can
ten you is strictly unimportant to
those trying to win a few bets.