view raw text
RACING AT HARLEM Harlem was the scene of great activity yester ester ¬ day the crowd being large and much given to speculation The pencilers pencil were augmented in number twenty regular and two field book ¬ makers drawing in for two days The public seems to fancy the batch of layers of odds present this season at the local racecourses and the student of the betting side of turf his ¬ tory can easily define the reason for this predi predict lection location inasmuch as now the percentage against the player is much smaller than when some one hundred and twentyfive twenty years ago the English bookmaker bad from 8 to 13 percent on his side Competition has forced the pen ciler coiler to be liberal and now with 170 a day ex ¬ pense pens staring him in the face he is lucky to make a six per cent winning book The weather was perfect the track fast fastIt fast It has come to a pass in racing where no one can say five minutes at a time that he knows where he stands Yesterday Jim Blackburn ran away in his preliminary threw the stable boy that was exercising him ran a mile or fnore fore then was brought to the stand and after examination excused by Col Cool Clark His price had advanced from 8 to 30 to 1 In the new book ordered the prices were identically the same as in the original book A moment after they were posted Rutter Ruttier was substituted for R Narvaez Larvae on Lew Blew Hopper whose price re ¬ ceded from 12 to 8 and closed at 7 to 1 Glen moyne monde limped while trotting to the post He was third at the first sixteenth and thereafter not in the race pulling up away back with Prince of India Loyaletta Loyalty was first off to an excellent start but Lady Calla hau haul soon passed on and the pair ran closely together until the head of the home stretch whera where Loyaletta Loyalty backed up finishing fifth Lew Blew Hopper had been fourth at the first sixteenth but Rutter Ruttier keeping the rail got his mount into third place at the half mile ground and so struck the straight At the last eighth Lew Blew Hopper and Lady Callahan were racing in front with Inconstancy third Suttonlast Sutton at the first quarter had improved somewhat but was even now too far back to have a win ¬ ning Ming chance and he finally landed fourth sev se ¬ eral feral lengths behind Lew Blew Hopper who just man ¬ aged to win in a hard drive from Lady Calla han she beating Inconstancy third two lengths lengthsTo lengths To a fair start for all except Alice B the first to show in front for the second race was Ach Bach but he dropped back and Rio Chico Chic and Anna Held made the pace Flirtation and Miss Marks being well up In the homestretch the race was reduced to a match between Rio Chico Chic and Miss Marks the former winning by the closest of margins Ramlet Armlet coming fast at the end beat Ach Bach for the third money Close behind came Flirtationf Flirtation she some lengths better than a close bunch of four headed by Willie How ¬ ard Ward Absolutely ran Revanna Ravenna a supposedly fair kind of proposition This race was much better played than have been others ot like kind several horses being thought to have 1 reasonable chance Revanna Ravenna was thrown throwngainst thronging gainst gains the fence and her boot cut off as she ran in the bunch on the far turn turnThe turtle The handicap promised well The Devil and David Tenny Teeny opening at 2 to 1 each which price had most likely been that of Storm King had he not been forced to carry a five pound penalty for beating May W on Wednesday Fervor has lost caste of late and 8 to 1 was to be had against this fairly good handicap animal The race proved to be a walkover for Found she leading all the way after getting away with a bulge Charina Carina delayed the start and was last away from the post fimshibg fishgig in a drive with Fervor who was beaten off after showing third on the upper turn Storm King was second and The Devil third nearly all the way but in the homestretch the latter ran away from the others Storm King finished third and was closing rapidly on Found at the finish Some persons advanced the opinion that if Beau champ had made more use of the second horse early in the race that he might have won Others said They allowed Found to go on thinking she would come back The chances are that the best horse won and could have done so by a much greater distance David Tenny Teeny ran in blinkers He got into third posi posit ¬ tion ion on the far turn but The Devil always held him safe safeNo safe No one can be expected to beat horse races or even enjoy looking at them when a horse im ¬ proves in two days as has Judge Tarvin Arvin Tues ¬ day last he started at fiveeighths firefights won by Andes in 102 and finished at the sixteenth post after making no showing whatever Yesterday he had plenty of speed and getting off in front led to within a few strides of the wire where he was beaten by a stake filly Espionage At his previous start Andes just out of the maiden class had beaten him off The track betting indicated nothinff nothing by way of a coup but there are other places to bet money on a horse The excuse was given that an inferior boy was up at his former start When has Everett been considered a jockey of grand merit Queen of Song in the front rank at the start beat Batten for the third money The favorite was second to Judge Tarvin Arvin until well into the straight en ¬ tering tearing which Be True was as good as fourth Approval a strong tip did nothing and Mr Johnson was attacked with the slows Mazie Maze V was beaten about the same distance as was Judge Tarvin Arvin Tuesday noting which a cynic sneered Look out for her herPaul herald Paul Griggs Rigs reminds one of an old trotting horse named Deck Wright who was always fav fa ¬ orite rite and never won Pat Dunnes Dunes gray was a rosy thing yesterday if the price goes for any ¬ thing and many a smart man took a tumble the argument that the horse has only three legs being stood off with a horse of his class can beat such dogs with only one leg on each side Getting away well Paul Griggs Rigs ran alongside St Alfonses Alfonso D for threequarters treasurers then shaking off his tormentor he looked all over a winner at the last hundred yards when all at once he faltered and half way home cried take it to Fonclif Foci who had always been as good as third But Cushings Cushing well backed horse did not get the money this being grabbed byTranby botany in the last few strides Cass Sloan rode the latter and had his mount cut off on the last turn so that it was a pretty bit of work to get Tranby Tabby first to the wire as he had to take the extreme outside Moreover Cass got a bat in the eye from a clod but what matters that to a Sloan Necedah Necked even beat Paul Griggs Rigs so getting the third money Gold Band was prominent the first part of the journey and Amanda ran well Celtic Bard with Rutter Ruttier up carried a lot of wise money moneyBarrisso monetarists Barrisso Harrison the horse which at Harlem on Wednesday won the last race of the day was according to Barney Schreiber weeded out from G C Bennetts Bennett string last spring and bought by two hustlers for a song The enterprising owners seeing that their purchase was greatly improved had him fitted for a race and shipped to Chicago where lucky enough to get a man down for 1000 they delivered the goods The bookmakers naturally thought the boys were selling an angel a gold brick and tak tack ¬ ing King all the money offered still kept advancing Barrisso Harrison s price Lady Juliet the animal that came withm with an ace of spoiling the good thing on Barrisso Harrison was a me too as she was also touted by a second set of hustlers She has been laid up all summer They say if McCann Mecca bad not lost his whip Lady Juliet would have won wonThe wonted The migration of racing stables to the south will begin today when will be shipped to La tonia toni Spirituelle Spiritual Batten and the others of T C McDowells McDowell string Buck Franklin is also off with Hardy Pardee Parsee Yuba Dam Ramiro II and other horses of W E Applegate Appellate and Hops Laudeman Laundryman The exodus will catch trainer McEvoy McCoy he taking John Bright and his stable companions companionsFlora companions Flora Louise off in front for the closing race was passed at the quarter by Dave Waldo Weald Then Belle of Memphis took the track and not again headed won as she pleased from Time maker who beat Verify three lengths The last named had hard work to beat Tenole Ennoble for the third money The others were never in it itIt ITT It is thought by some horsemen that racing next winter will meet with less patronage than formerly in California The meeting at Sacra ¬ mento mentor was dubbed a frost the bad con ¬ ditions editions being accounted for by failure of crops cropsJ crops J H McCormick shipped all his horses to Sacramento Sunday last From there the string goes to Los Angeles where J F Caldwell does the starting
