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KING OF SIAM AND RACING Monarch and Entire Family Leave Track at Once if Royal Herse Is Beaten The King of Siam maintains a racing stable His horses are all ponies since tha Siamese turf is confined entirely to thij class of equines but the royal ponies aro the best in the country At least that is the intelligence contined in a brochure pub ¬ lished by a Siamese bookmaker which has reached Paris ParisThe The king cannot stand the idea of being beaten at all and when such a thing hap ¬ pens he immediately quits the track with his entire family in an extremely bad humor His jockey whose name is Hoosooroo is also the champion of his profession When it happens that he does not win with a royal pony an extremely unusual occurrence by the way he drowns his sorrows during a period of eight days in the dives of Bang ¬ kok kokBidjit Bidjit is the kings name He believes aa did the Shah of Pen a that the finish of a sporting event should respect the rank of the participants Musafer Endin the Shah in question attended the running of the Eng ¬ lish Derby which was won by Ladas owned by Lord Rosebery When it was explained to him that the winner belonged to tho prime minister of England he exclaimed Well where was the kings horse horseWhen When he understood that the king had no horse in the race he agreed that it was altogether proper that the premiers horse should win and felicitated the aged Dorling who managed badly enough the Epsom course on the good order of his spectacle Viator In Le Jockey
