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BANNOCKBUKNS BANNOCK SHERIDAN SHERIDANThe Sheridan The glorious Fourth Saratoga weather and an excellent racing card attracted a crowd of 15000 folks to Washington Park ParkW Park W S Barnes was missing he having gone home to spend the holiday W O Scully Sully was the new arrival Just from Detroit the genial Bill reported his prospects bright through a new system of wearing a blue stocking on the right and a brown one on the left leg This is Al Taylors Taylor invention for breaking the hoodoo I hope to do well with odd socks The public seemed to bo well posted on rac race ¬ ing King matters despite the lack for two days of the Chicago daily newspapers As seven events were up for decision the first race was called at 1 30 p m mThe The The feature of the day The Sheridan Stakes li miles for 3yearolds worth 2000 to the win ¬ ner near had only five starters and of these Pink Coat the American Derby winner was held at 7 to 5 he carrying 2 pounds more than at his former start in Chicago Goodrich at 13 to 5 was second choice and Pingree Pongee received support at 4 to 1 while Sardonic and Bannockburn Bannock i Hid be had at 15 to 1 each The loiterers in he public parks had reached the race track by the time betting began on this race and the holiday character of the assemblage congested all avenues curiosity seekers badly squeezing bookmaker and bettor in the ring ringThe righted The result was a great surprise and destroyed all charts William McGuigans Michigan colt Bannock burn Clawson Lawson up setting his own pace and winning all the way Pingree Pongee was second for threequarters treasurers Then W Martin moved up the favorite At the upper turn Pingree Pongee showed distress and Sardonic was beaten Midway the straight Goodrich made play and both he and Pink Coat closed to within a length of Bannock burn but Clawson Lawson just looked around and let ¬ ting go a wrap his horse gained a length in three strides McGuigan Michigan has all along claimed Bannockburn Bannock to be a better animal than Ben Eder Edger or Lady Inez Cine and maybe he is j jJohn john John Brenocks Rednecks Lucille Bramble ridden by Clawson Lawson set the pace and was clear of the field a quarter from home but T Burns brought up Pat Cleburne Claiborne on the rails and had the race won at the betting shed The third horse Merops Metros was just ahead of the bunch The smart ones whipsawed the first race Pat Cleburne Claiborne had worked fiveeighths firefights in 102 and Lucille Bramble had shown speed at Harlem HarlemDave Harlem Dave Waldo Weald ran up the back stretch in the lead his mouth wide opeu open Miss Gussie Gussied always second appeared to labor as the homestretch was made and touched with the spur switched her tail Shes Ashes done at onco ono was heard from the bleaching boards Instead of this Dave Waldo Weald was the quitter and he stopped to a walk before covering seveneighths seventieths of a mile Miss Gnssie Gussied won easily easilyMorte easily Morte Mote Fonse Fosse won in a drive every foot of the way being contested from the head of the home stretch Official took the track and led to the last few jumps It looked as if Found would get to the front at the last quarter but her effort in coming from fourth place on the back stretch spoiled the favorites chance Still she hung on to the last fifty yards The front rank at the last eighth was joined by Don Orsino Orinoco and Mistral II came fast at the finish finishCherry Finnish Cherry Leaf as at his last start galloped in front all the way Burns off in front with Charley Christy succeded seceded in placing him but when asked to go on the horse did not respond Enchanter delayed the start and Dwyer finally becoming tired dropped the flag with Fosters horse behind It seems strange that such animals are allowed to destroy the chances of others and at the same time exhaust the patience of everybody Cash Day and Afamada Alameda were in front to the homestretch then The Manxman Mamma and Enchanter passed on It was a fine race between the pair in the last furlong The post betting was actually 10 per cent Dutch Souchon Soupcon led all the way and Survivor was as easily second secondRemember second Remember the Ides of March mused the scholarly sport as he noticed the strength of apologetic effort to square up the in and out running of certain horse owners The sword of Damocles he continued mentally It is a certainty that some owners of stables are sure to be called down before this meeting ends endsThere enlistee There sits looking at all these races old Charley Pettingill Petting who is on to everything His whole life has been devoted to turf matters and nothing can come up not known to his ex ¬ perience prince Why when Pet was starter at Glou Lou ¬ cester Chester the soil there was so rotten that it took the best part of a day to pack the track and the first race had to bo postponed because the roller took a dive toward China There too the presiding judge was said to have a head like a goober nut Charley is apt to make things warm if horses show a disposition like old Taxgatherer Tailgater to turn their heads and run according to the figures they see posted in the betting ring ringThere righter There is always a chance for one to be mis mils ¬ taken and I am positive the Washington Park Club has employed officials that should know best the more especially as this organization has always taken the pains to employ as presid preside ¬ ing King judge a nonresident of Chicago Of course this city furnishes the money for the race meet ¬ ing King and where nearly two millions of people live and have built up a city in many respects the greatest the world ever saw that a com ¬ petent patent turf official cannot be found in the lot is prima facie evidence of the ability of the man selected Oh yes Pettingill Petting will rip some ¬ body up the back mighty soon if the boys dont don't shift shiftWhen shift When just before the third race the victory at Santiago was announced there was such a demonstration by the public as was never before seen at Washington Park The jockeys mounted on their horses stood before the judges stand during the reading of the dis dais ¬ patches which were said to be signed Samp Scamp ¬ son sonFred snored Fred Littlefield Littered who rode Mirthful in the Derby was up on Doremus Dorms and Martha II He has stayed in Chicago in attendance on R Wal Walt deu deus his uncle who is gradually gaining in health healthJimmy healthily Jimmy Barry champion bantam pugilist is a regular attendant attendantJacob attendant Jacob Schaefer and C J E Parker represent ¬ ed the billiardists billiards billiardistsThe billiards The holiday crowd naturally plays outsiders and the small bettors literally ate up several of the books on Bannockburn Bannock there being offered as good as 5 to 1 for a place Riley Grannan Granada bet on Pingree Pongee Pink Coat jumped up in price as heavy investors do not care to play horses of his class carrying 129 pounds poundsBrown pounds Brown Dick one of the best of judges of horseflesh said concerning Hamburg Of all the horses I ever saw he is the fastest He just outbreaks any horse four lengths and is gone they never see him again That first race this year didnt didn't go goCapt goat Capt Caput J H Reese Presiding Judge at several western race tracks came over from St Louis to spend the day For two weeks he has been acting for Jack Price at St Louis LouisAlbert Louisa Albert Gage of the Wellington Hotel said I never saw a nicer days racing or better order observed j CONTINUED ON SECOND PAGE BANNOCKBURVS BANNOCK SHERIDAN Continued from 1st Page Dick Gunning was a spectator spectatorNot spectator Not a single firecracker was exploded inside the grounds groundsSmith goldsmith Smith Perry have the right idea as to help ¬ ing King circulation of the odds They have two men instead of one to display the program and this is held high above all heads and veered to all points of the compass compassN compass N Turner was fined 50 and set down for two days for a bad ride on Enchanter at his last start startDave started Dave Waldo Weald is said to have worked a mile better than 1 10 Sunday This probably knocked him off Caywood Cawed said that the horse did not run his race raceIn racing In the last race won by Hugh Penny Satur Saturn ¬ day last a scramble among owners as to claim ¬ ing King horses arose Bellicoso Bellicose and Nathanson Nathan changed hands and during the transaction it transpired that under a strict construction of the racing rules Cherryflame Cheryl who finished last in a field of four was entitled to first money as none of the other horses were entered in the names of their owners Hugh Penny entered by Doss is said to be owned in part by another man J Naglee Magee Burk Burke owns Bellicoso Bellicose and J E Gushing owns an interest in Nathanson Nathan There was something in the order of a deal made last year when Schulte Schultz of Louisville was mixed up in getting the party owning a third horse prior claim to get in first with a bid so as to prevent the loss of a horse There is a precedent for disqualifying horses in cases like the above first and second being given no money in a race in California season before last
