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GOSSIP OF THE TUKF TURK The thirteenday thirteen autumn meeting of the West chester Racing Association that begins at Morris Park October lai laic d continues four days a week Mondays and Fridays being omitted until Oc ¬ tober Tiber 22 is rich in stake features Opening day has the Nursery Jerome Manhattan and Oc ¬ tober Tiber Hurdle Handicap October 4 tbe tube Hurri Uri cana canal and Belle Meade Octobers the Fairview and Bronx Octobers Rancho del Paso Morris Park Special and October Steeplechase Oc ¬ tober Tiber 11 Silver Brook andDixiana additional October 13 the Hunter and Westchester Esthete Handicaps Oc ¬ tober Tiber 15 tbe tube Champagne Municipal and Autumn Hurdle Handicaps October 18 the Castleton Carleton and McGrathiana Maceration October 20 the Ramapo Ramp and Fordham Ford Handicaps and closingday closing the White Plains Morris Park and Autumn Steeplechase Handicaps There was a match race at Newport yesterday morning decidedly out of the ordinary and it created much amusement Texas Smith was working a twoyearold toehold colt that at no time had ever promised to bo a racehorse J T Stewart was doing the same with a twoyearold toehold filly of the equal class and promise to Smiths colt The two owners began to talk about the lack of ability of their respective animals and finally agreed to run a five furlong match race and John Walsh was appoiuted appointed the judge Stewart and Smith then took their jock ¬ eys eyes aside and instructed them how to ride It so happened that both owners told the lads to pull and the latter obeyed with a will The twoyearolds toeholds had not run a hundred yards be ¬ fore both lads began to saw the heads off their mounts The race degenerated into a walk and the lads grinned at each other as they said simultaneously I was told to pull pullSmith pulls Smith who was standing by Stewarts Stewart side near the finish line seeing that there was no choice between the bad youngsters said to the latter latterIll laterally Ill sell my colt for 2 2Hes Hes Hess mine answered Stewart as he handed over the money moneyNow money Now Im even Smith said as he pocketed the 2 Stewart once sold me a watch that would not run and I have saddled on to him a colt that will do notbipg noting but eat and sleep Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
