Lucky Green Morris., Daily Racing Form, 1898-09-17

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JLUCKY LUCKY GREEN MORRIS Abuse and Official are exactly the same kind of horses laughed Pat Dunne The first is always favorite and never loses whereas my nag is always favorite and never wins The popu popup ¬ lar lair horseman was in splendid humor yesterday and referring to the red ear story went on to tell about the luckiest horseman he ever knew knewGreeu newsgroup Greeu Green Morris is the man said Pat and Ill tell you what happened him all in one day Out at Hawthorne when Joe Ullmau Pullman ran his foreign book there was a race down at Washington and engaged was Fred Fosters Old horse Sull Scull ross Everybody seemed to have a bet down and Green followed the crowd He was stand ¬ ing King in the poolroom when the odds were posted and putting on 200 grabbed the ticket and hurried to the betting ring to place a like amount on a horse of his jubt jut going to the post He watched the race and saw his colors land third There I gol geol said he to himself and hurried back into th poolroom You remember how busy it used to keep us all in those days 1 1The The boardmarker bookmarker was putting a ring around a horses name and it was not Sullross Soulless the good thing having ran second Pshaw said old Green Im not much today and he jour ¬ neyed eyed toward the paddock to see what his men were doing with the horse that had just run runAs runs As he stepped on the lawn we call it lawn you know when its really a brick walk a great shout arose and Green Morris wins went up Thats Hats 1400 in my pocket chuckled the old sport but by Jove as they had to disqualify two for me to get it I guess I will let the boys cool out that lucky winner of mine and go and see how about Sullross Soulless He ran second so he has got double the chance my horse had to win es in his case only one horse has to be disquali disqualify ¬ fied field And would you believe it there around Sullross Soulless name was a ring The winner had been disqvfifijfied So then and there I put Green Mornk Monk in my book as the luckiest of I horsemen horsemenBy horsemen By the way that Sullross Soulless race was the one where it was said the down town poolrooms took a lot of money after the first horse passed the post and the gamblers knew that Sullrosa Bullfrogs had been beaten They say smart money went on even when the ring was around the wrong horse both inside and outside knowing that Sullross Soulless was not first past the post This has caused me to think that there is nothing in the way of a sure thing At any rate the boys that bet on Sullross Soulless cashed


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