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GOSSIP OF THE TUKF TURK Theres Theresa a lot of josh and jolly in all human careers of action Much of it is expended about the turf One turfman Truman rubs the other turfmans turbans back and expects a rub in return False con ¬ ditions editions come out of this game of admiremeand admire I11admireyou They do not help the sport It would be far better if every fellow would hoe his own row and do the best he could with what he had Wherever theres Theresa a fix some fixer has a shade and a shade is usually un ¬ natural and abnormally dishonest The result of everyday trying is more regular to general result and worth more of an allaround alarum effort DAIL DIAL X RACING FORM trys trays hard every day It holds nothing back If it learns of any socalled scaled inside information such is put into the mat ¬ ter tear it prints as soon as possible and without special display Thats Hats merely honesty of service If 1 had a horso hors which I was sure was a million pounds better than the horse against which he had to contend on the morrow ho would be named to win The odds be blowed lowed The win ¬ ning Ming way and the honest way is the only way for the turfman Truman newspaperman merchant or preacher A fakir meets a fakirs fate I know a lot of men who fake I keep form about them as keenly as I keep it about the horse I do not know ten of some 2000 of such fakirs who are in clover Those in clover are on the tab of future trouble troubleWelshould trouble Welshould Welsh all treat the turf as it is not as it should be Thats Hats mere utilitarianism DAILT ATILT RACING FORM so treats it The turf has its shady nooks What human corner hasnt hasn't There is much dirty printed matter about the turf and the church Printed matter is not very reliable in these days of ours As digested the turfs dirt isnt isn't quite as dirty as the chron Chiron ¬ icles ices of other corners Proof is at hand and on j call The opportunity of one corner too is i about as broad as the other As it seems to me the calling of things by their proper names and the telling of the truth at all times about all items in use is the best system of reform all about human doings and mis mils ¬ doings There are rich cheaters and poor cheaters in all business avenues It seems as if the former predominate In the effect of action as shown by figures there isnt isn't much doubt that they do Wealth is arrogant everywhere Possession breeds dominance The submission of poverty is as universal Some of the stables owned by wealthy turfmen Turkmen have a record of performance that would jog officialism officials into the shame of complexion if officialism officials was not as lazy as it is All this leads to the conclusion that there isnt isn't any grade to the furtive turfman Truman or mer mere ¬ chant He may and does run his horses or his goods short or deal and combine with others according to his opportunities The effect upon the public which pays the piper is the same however This too all admits that there is fraud in iorso Orson racing It will grow less as officialism officials grows more alert The same fraud exists in all other lines of business for the turf is a busi bus ¬ ness According to the chances offered by rac race ¬ ing King I sincerely believe that the percentage of fraud in racing is less than that in all other commercial corners The church is not barred In the term other commercial corners The hikyism Hickeys of this and that fellow who goes into select corners and denounces the pas ¬ tures tues he has left disgusts a fair spectator of general human action One such turfman Truman says that racing in the East is cleaner than that in the West and still another that England con tains stains more turf honesty than America Bosh I Human nature isnt isn't local The same average rules in Kamschatka Kasha England Tasmania Nor ¬ way and America It universally sharpens with the opportunity of action But the average is still the same The keener the cheater the larger his idea of profit Therefore to the gen ¬ eral feral victim luck comes through the dullness of class The balance however is in that of sharpness of possession Side by side with the falsity of idea of these betterthanthouists who pain a practical eye is that of the preachery preacher about the enforcement of turf progress by means of oppression These sermons run along the line of advocacy of harsh and unreasonable laws and rules Gov Go ¬ ernment ferment is health if it is reasonable But the law that brands a man as almost a criminal for doing his best with what he has bought and is compelled to use for sustenance is detestable and tyrannical Such is the rule that has cre acre ¬ ated acted the present outlaw band of owners jockeys and horses Discipline is healthy and necessary The owner or jockey who seemed to repent and who secured a pardon upon the basis of repentance deserves no second pardon But the man who owned a band of cheap horses and was forced to race wherever he could to earn a living is as good a citizen as the millionaire who owned a band of horses and was not com j polled to sustain himself through its earnings The American turf needs more cotnmonsonse commonsense and elasticity It also needs more reasonable government The right ruler and rules could classify its items and geographical conditions and legislate in such a way as to make restraint both comfortable and reasonable Gilberts Gilbert Mikado whose object all sublime was to make the punishment fit the crime would be the proper sort ef lawmaker for the American turf Id punish a rebel who sought strife and outlawry because he was agin again the govern ¬ ment meant That would be the mere health of ac ¬ tion ion about regularity and order But theres Theresa mean and pinching bitterness of punishment in the outlawry of a fellow who had to race what ho had because he couldnt couldn't go to a licensed track and had to sustain himself with what he had at the place he could reach Theres Theresa still more meanness and bitterness in the pinch to the horseman who was not in with the politics of Eastern or Western racing of his time and thus fell between the changeable wheels thereof and was defaced There may bo some excuse but there isnt isn't much philanthropy about the branding of a man as an outlaw upon a geo geol ¬ graphical basis The present laws of racing do this Geography isnt isn't a good reformatory I IRacing Racing Racing classification seems to be necessary in America It has become so in England Out ¬ lawry awry will not do though It isnt isn't a modern or a liberal system A man with 1000 invested in turf tools shouldnt shouldn't be forced to compete with the owner of 50000 worth of goods or become a criminal The rule that forces such competi compete ¬ tion ion is not a just rule The effect sought by such a law is villainous The 1000 fellow to naturally sustain himself must be lucky or cheat He may be lucky and escape but luck is not regular or natural and the cheating way is considering unreasonable conditions An irre ire ¬ gular guar or unrecognized turf group may be neces nieces ¬ sary scary to American racing But an outlaw class is not It seems too that whore the irregular or un ¬ recognized class exists there should bo a stimu stimuli ¬ lating elating clause in the general laws of racing that will allow and even encpurage encourage an ambitious man to get out of the prison of mean estate and climb all walls of turf fame should he have the goods and the will Such a road for the journey of human ambition fits into the idea of American and human freedom This is a gossip to horsemen on the basis of what I think after fully considering what has turned up in recent racing politics and action I do not 1 care how it suits this or that mans ideas ideasFRANK ideas FRANK H BRUNELL BRUNEI
