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ST.LOUIS* HOODOO STABLE. H. M. Westerfield came to St Louis with a nice stable of platers and a boy well spoken of, Munro. Mr. "Westerfield secured the old engine house on the backstretch for a stable. It is known as the "hoodoo barn." The hoodoo is ten years old. Billy Magrane first started it. He occupied the barn when Frank K. was the best three-year-old in the west. Frank K. got fever and poked his eye out with a nail. Magrane, always a moneymaker, went broke that season. Dick Stickney came along with Prime Minister in 1S95. This colt had beaten everything in the south in the spring. He stayed at St. Louis all season, was sound and strong, but the best he could do was to run a dead heat with Lobengula. Stickney became angry over the decision and had an argument with Judge Burke which got him ruled off. Prime Minister could run a mile in 1:39 with stake weight up in the south. He could not run in 1:43 in the "hoodoo barn." M. Hughes then tackled it with Lady Callahan. Lady Callahan could step Harlem any time in 1:40. Hughes kept her at the "hoodoo barn" all season. She did not win a race, though she ate, worked and otherwise did well. She could not run in 1:44. "Ill bust the hoodoo if it takes my life," said Hughes. But he chucked it up at the end of three months, and got another barn. Then he won races. W. Fessenden came along in 1S9S. Fessen-den is bluff, bold, and was rich then. "I hear you have a hoodoo barn,* he said. "Give me a shot at it. Ill knock the hoodoo higher than a kite." He got his crack. He had Pacemaker then, a 1:40 horse. Three of his colts died inside of a month, and Pacemaker could not beat a fat man. Fessenden went away broke. Mr. Magrane came back in 1901 and put his stable in the barn over night. Tuthill, a ,000 horse, died right off. Now "Westerfield has it. He cannot win.-His boy, Munro, well thought of, is riding so badly that the judges are after hie The barn can be seen from the grandstand. It is about the four and one-half furlong pole. It was originally used for a fire engine. It looks like what negroes call a "hant."— St. Louis Republic. . . ..,_„.,
