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WILD TIPS OFTEN CHANGE PRICES. Followers of Charlie Leydecker Were Advised to Keep Off Him in a Recent Race Which He Won. By Ed Cole. Saratoga, N. Y., August 21. One has to keep a keen eye on the market these days to hold the pace with the high rolling speculators. This docs not mean that the winners are not usually the best horses, but the financial cast is liable to spring any old way at the last minute and upset the prospects of the "early buyers." . One instance in particular that can be cited is the victory of Charlie Leydecker in his recent race. The tip Went around that lie had a big knee, was lame, liable to break down, in fact he had more defections on him than a boy with the chicken pox. "Play anything but Charlie Leydecker," was the chorus from every quarter. These rumors caused the wild rush to wager on Virginia yell. Some folk did not fancy Virginia Yell, but they fled to the dope sheets for relief to see if there was not a horse among the entries worthy of support. , , .. , Edward Bradley took a try at x his filly, Blue Paradise, and Grover Baker slapped a wager on Butcher Boy. Everybody searched for a horse to bent Charlie Leydecker. The market was panicky. Charlie Leydeckers price went soaring. Wise men ducked away from him. All but one or two, who were wiser than the wise men. They knew that Charlie Leydecker would run a good race and when the price on him went high enough for their plunge they invested and began the wholesale financial slaughter. The odds layers had gathered in the sheckles from the information players. Then the wise men came along and held them up for it by shoveling iii slips on Charlie Leydecker. What was the result? Charlie Leydecker won in a canter and the mob then knew they had been fooled by paddock rumors foretelling the big knee and unfitness. Charlie Leydecker may have had a bad knee and other ailments, but lie ran the race as if nothing bothered him much. He was a natural even money shot, but those with correct stable knowledge, bought the goods at "Twenty-eight," for which they would have had to pay "fifty" had it not been for the wild paddock rumors, the seed of which was sown so thickly that even the barbers handed it to their customers lis they lathered. Since then the gentlemen who rely on paddock information look With a skeptical grin at anyone who even intimates that a horse has a pineapple knee or a wind puff.
