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FANTINE ANTOINE OR TARENTUM TRENT TARENTUMThe Argentite The TarentumFantine case is not yet cleared up for historical purposes though her alleged owner Goodsell Goods or Goodell Goodwill and the filly are out of the business If she was under a cloak the cloak escaped If as alleged the cloak was Tar entum Centrum it was nt much of a cloak in a form way unless as is said Tarentnm Trenton has greatly im ¬ proved and won four races in four starts in Canada this season It is certain that the Detroit crowd bet on Fantine Antoine for a ringer and won about 25000 by her victory In the mob was George Richings Icings His presence here started the story Richings Icings deals in ringers He was a fair jockey in his day ruled off in the East for crooked riding Ho has been ringing horses for some years Every recent ring ¬ ing King fable is built around the Brannons Brandon who at the best were less than expert Richings Icings had an original Rrannon Drano con ¬ nection unction but outgrew it The Brannons Brandon were bad laborers in the past and are present buga bug ¬ boos Richings Icings grew away from them through modern culture He is wellbred wellhead His father was a railroad expert But the boy was out of line got away from parental control early and for the last six years or so has been ringing horses for a living He was in with the Polk Polka Badget Badge and Glee Boy coups and organized a succesful successful scheme or two at Hawthorne He also put through five or six ringing plots in the East Will Fonso Fonts was his best recent tool Richings Icings has Canadian and Brooklyn connections He was in Chicago the Sunday before and the Monday of the Fantine Antoine race and invited one close friend to share in the Ideal Park coup The Richings Icings method in that of horse duplication aiid aid the incident running of a bad horse for identification and a good duplicate for his own purpose If the Richings Icings gang had used Tarentum Trent it would have taken a long chance Taren Tarn ¬ tum Tums though declared Iby Libby the superficial ists fists of the press to be a wonder and a good thing at 3 to 5 isnt isn't much Doc Street owned her early When the Jockey Club landed Street last year over a race by Galilee at St Asaph Asap it was a thorough land Jockey Club lands are of that kind Subse Subs ¬ quently queenly Streets horses were released from the ban if sold in a legitimate way M A Coleman Co an Eastern firm bought Tarentum Trent The filly ran eighteen races in 1895 She won five was second three times third four times and unplaced six times Her best wins were at 4i4 furlongs and at Windsor last fall She won two A1A furlong races there in September In one Sidkel Side was behind her Both were in 55 seconds The same days 1 116 miles was run in 1 473 and 1 48 and a mile by Sam Lewis in 1 42
