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ALEX LABOLDS HARD LUCK STORY. Entrusts Retrieve to Drunken Jockey and Loses American Derby and Bicj Wager. To bet m: .i ho laying the foundation fur a bard lack Btory, and then, .m Tu. not ii I" t in. iy |i the same thing. There are .i thousand nnd one tales ss to nrhal might have happened "If" m thing .Ise iii. I not. Having heard a g Ij fM-iii l Hie 1,001, lie palm must be award* 1 to Colonel Alex Labold, for he tells one ihil Is as ti.ii4.-h .i in. Is tale as one could imagine. In 18SI the Labold brothers had a til l called Retrieve, who •nut a full sister to their D . Montrose. Retrieve was i splendid raelng tool and ran third in the American Derby of thai year, beaten a little over a length :ill told in S|M kane and Sorrento, while the great Proctor Knott run last, and thereby hangs tlie tale. The story, as told by Colonel Labold, w as: "Mj brother and I concluded to start Retrieve for that Derby more out ol sentiment than anything else. We ilil not think she had :i chance to ,i coil Iii p Sp I- m or r • i tor Knott, a Uch had run such a setisal [onal rac tncky 1 N?l bj . As it. una. Retrieve should have won the race ii I li.nl listened to what was btM me in the morning ami bad secured another Jockey. w tii.it time we had both Isaac lewis and Kred Taral. I went out to the track rather early, driving out with but brother, mil we passed I sac Murphj on the road. lie bailed me .mil told me thai Lewia had not l.ei n taking care of himself, aud thai be waa sure In- eoui.i nit do the weigh! tor Retrieve. That pari "i it w ;i- i-ti to uui ii hi i. John idcGiiity, ami we did not pay aincfa attention to the matter. Alter the horses had waraaed up I wen to the liaddock ami talked to the trainer. I said to him: •.loiin. you uoniii i e awfully surprised it Retrieve si Ill U ill till-. III. I . •••I have lo in more surprised In winning selling races. -aid he, than il I would win this one. Mr. Labold. " Moim. ou iiniit mean to say that Retrieve i an « in. hy, she hi 200 to 1. ••l wouldnt care it she was a million !o one," said he. Shell win If the fockej rides as l tell him. 1 heard tii.it Lewis was drunk, but hell do, drunk or sober, and ti-.o pounds over weight. 1 . i sorl "i ni latiou to mi . and ■ Tier talking it over with my brother We concluded to bet 1907.sh00 on her al the odds of 200 to 1, .is the Itookmakers all knew what condition our Jockey was in. "McGInty t • 1 i him to not make a move until tie horses were pointed for home ami then cul loose, for she was lb id game. To our astonishment IjcVis kept her well Dp behind POkctor Knott, the pacemaker, and took the lead turning for home, He disobeyed Instructions and had made hi- inn too and muter the hardest Kind of pressure Spo- kane was brought Dp aud beat her to the h-.. while Sorrento also passed her in the lasl stride ind i the place. The stake was worth over |il i.0t0 i" the ..inner and ve blond to win an even 00,000 on the race in bets."— Cincinnati Enquirer.
