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FINCUS TELLS HARD LUCK STORIES. Loses a Bin Stable by Not Takinq the Tin of Three Shrewd Australians. •The hank si race I ■ wid .1 icob Plneus, repeating the query put to him. "Well, that i- a l",;|. hard question for a 1. m who baa been with the runners aa rider and trainee lor half a century raw 1 lost .1: Sue. .a 11 Park, ■ entitled to bead my I all things being considered. "I think it w.i- ii: s,-.- i o;lr ; sras training in land. 1 not sure now aa to the name ol the bu1 ! know it was tot two-year-olds and Bdou . Park the two year-old coarse is laid out through the center of what we would call here the infield, though the tracks are ether of a different shape. This course was a at run through thi Held, laishlag, of coarse, ■way below 11 e Btand. after a terrific race three of us finished in a dead - other trainera represented in the tie were Tom v 1 and Hick Marsh, the latter the Kings trainer at present. I irsl met Wood, and ■- ■ division meant 35 to each of aa, and as arc had ie desire to repeal with a good tw i-yeai oM niter such a grueling race, we tbooght it beat to But when w« 1 Marsh be would not agree to a division ,,f the puise. giving as his reason thai the Duke of Hamilton, who owned the horse be had ran, was not present, and that he would not take the responsIbiUt: on blmaelf. "There was nothing left bal to run it off. Wood and myself happened .1 be cooling our horses out near each other. Three Australians caaae walking ap to Wood, and on* i them asked him If be thougl : win with seven pooada less weight to 1 irry. Wood said be believed be could. Thest, the spokesman of the Australians, tak , - and run your colt barefooted. "The English at that time use.: very heavy plates. :i Bet, according to the knowledge or estimate of the Australians, weighing aevea rnTTrtt Wood ■greed, called a blacksmith, had the plates removed imi1 the h.».is ..1 the horse smoothed down. I saw Hid heard ill that went on. bat thought they were making a untaia oat of a molehill. The p I us...l wen much tighter, you see. and I didii"t take the mattei aerlooaly. "Well. Woods eoll and mine had it hammer and tons agala in the rua off. We quickly left Marsh behind and ha the Set eat vied i ■ drive W Ia : , - coil beat mine a short head. I dont know that removing °" the plates made any difference, hut W k»1 s advisers said it would, and perhaps it did. That ,1 was a hard race to lea*, as I had 96,404 cinched ii if • Marsh had agreed to a division, and then I failed d to take the Australians tip and relieve the plates - from luy own horse, which might have made a dif- i fen nee. "B«t there have heen other lend loauea, and tic latest involved Jockey Sanaa-, who 1 see has beea n ei gaged to ride camisar.i. the favorite Car the Lin- i- eolnahire Handicap. This was only a few years ag... . when I was racing a small arable Of my own. I ha., won two races in one day at Newmarket and stood ■ good chance of repeating the doulde at Yarmouth J ■ few days later. Saxby was an apprentice then. 1 bat ■ fair rider, and when Pickering, his employer, asked me to pat him up. 1 consented. "The track at Yarmouth was originally a Straight coarse only, hat in order to run long distance races they put in a funny little loop that covered little le more than a ■snorter of a mile from where it left the main brack until it intersected again. In that it •ho 1 run the horses had to turn from cast to west, I, BO rou can imagine what sharp turns there were. ». I wasnt acquainted with the coarse or would never * have permitted a light apprentice to take the anoaut. Saxb] did jest what might have l.een expected— allowed " the horse to run out on the .sharp tarn. He bolted s,, suddenly that he barely escaped gOtOg tatO 0 the liver, which ran alongside the course, but came • on to finish a good third. "My other starter came later, and this tj:,,,. Saxby ,- W..11. I was feeling soinewha; reconciled to the lorn of ;Tie Irst race, when the clerk of the coins,. e boated me up and said: Im sorry, Mr. Pincos, bat . your boy was gve pooada overweight and your horse e will have to he dis.pialitied. After making the e weight the boys volet had evidently picked up all the lead in siht and stuffed the pockets luii. for r there it was. live pounds too nun h. "I.ut tl.es,. sre only a few eases, and I expect 1 I could recall many more if 1 ranaaeKed inv mesaory."
