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PRECAUTIONS AT SHEEPSHEAD BAY. Cstend Niftht-Riding Incident Leads to Employment of Private Watchmen. New York. September 9. Until the Ostend "hight-riding" incident of Sunday hut two night private watchmen were employed at Slieepshead Bay. In most of tlie stables horses of all sorts and classes were left unprotected in their stalls with the top doors open and nothing to prevent any prowler from opening tlie bottom door and taking any racer that might have caught ids fancy. But things are changed now. Every stable has its private watchman. George Odoni. who suspects that the riders worked on his fleet filly. Follle Levy, Friday night, has hired a fellow with a heavy jaw and armed him with a .44 Colt. This person lias orders to shoot auybody who may make an attempt on a stall door after the working force has gone 4.0 bed. Odoni suspects that Follie Levy was tampered with, because when he put the filly away Fr.iday evening she was in perfect condition, and it looked as though she would have an easy tiling in the iirst race Saturday, which was won by Walter Jennings filly. Intrinsic. Saturday when Follie Levy was taken from her stall for her morning exercise she was not only as limp as a rag, but she was so lame that Odom fears she will not race again for a considerable time. Tlie Pinkertons think they have the ringleader of the actual working force in Arthur Thomas, who is called "Whltey" about the race track. It is said that there were five men all told in the gang. Three are said to be still in Canada. A tout who is suspected of being a confederate is under surveillance at New York. The gang is charged with having given King Cobalt a night ride that made him unfit for a race in which lie met and was defeated bv Ethon on the Canadian circuit last yenr. It is alleged that confederates of the night riders in the betting ring laid against King Cobalt and bet on Ethon. Strobel. the ex-jockey who rode Ostend Sunday night, gave a truly delightful explanation of their purpose to one of Captain Formosas sleuths. "It was this way," Strobel said. ".My friend Whitey bets a lot of money and he wanted to put down a good big sum on tills colt Ostend Monday. But he did not think House had done enough with the colt to fit him. so lie ordered me to work him Sunday night. That was all we took Ostend out for, holiest." Ostend is in a bad way and may die. The horse was not cooled out after his ten-mile work-out. caught cold, and is now suffering from pneumonia.
