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Show lucky on Long shot. When the Texan horse, Captain Oas-ton, Oas-ton, won at bheepshcud bay and soino bookmakers hud been foolish enough to lay as high ns 100 to 1 against hlm, there was ono lucky bettor who attracted at-tracted but llttlo nttentlon In the great thiong In the grandstand. Yet she had won JM00 on an investment of IJ0. and when a sped il messenger brought her winnings, she counted the big toll of bills with as little pertuibntlon ns If thlB were u inero cverduy octui-rence. octui-rence. This woman is one of n few who have been going to (ho ruco truck for many jcars nnd have been nble to stick to thr gnmo contlnuoul),fwhere thouruiids nf others have filled. Who differs from most of tho others In that she seeks no companionship among the other fair backers ot tho thoroughbreds Hho goes to tho races unattended llnds beiself a sent at the end of the grandstnnd near tho betting rlrg, und ftom the beginning begin-ning of the nftfrnr-.n to the time tho last raco la run she seldom speaks to uny one but the messenset who brings htr the prltes nnd carries her roiiunls- The only name slio has ever been known by at the tacc track Is "Miss Wilson." and she has qlvvajs been most cnreful In concealing her real Identity from the common held. Hut for a merely mere-ly nctldentnl meeting with an Intimate ft lend on mturlt da. It might never have been known that this woman, who had become n regular at the laces, was connected with ono ot the best known families In New Jerse, and at one time had been the flinceo of the son of a Uoveinot of that State. It was upward of a dozen enrs ago that ".Miss Wilson" saw her Hist luio, l'lesldent A. J. I'assatt of the l'tnnsH-anla l'tnnsH-anla raltmni!, had ono of tho hst stables sta-bles In training at that time. Iniludlng, among others, Hurus, n buhuibin win-ner, win-ner, and The Hard, a lrookIn Handicap Handi-cap winner. John Hoggins, who now hnndles Mr. W. C Whitney's horses In Hngland. was Mr. f'usmiU's trulner, nnd one day nt Bheoshend bay he sent Bandusla, an (intrled fill), to the post Ily n mere rhunce "Miss Wilson was ono of a party who occupied a box at hlieepshead bay that afternoon, and thero was a little social betting among them, Just to lend Best to the sport When llandusla appeared on the track, earning the Cassatt tricolors, led white and blue, "Miss Wilson" was so attracted by the famous colors thnt she Insisted upon betting In support or them, "Just for the tup ot It," as she Wlicn'wnrd came back that odds were 100 lo 1 against Ilandusln, tlio gentlemen of the party merrily chaffed "Mlji Wllaon" for her plainly apparent folly In throwing away her money, but she took It good-naturedly nnd stuck to her bet, salng that the tricolors would do well enough for her In the race, bo It pioved, for, much to tho surprise of all the knowing ones, llandusla won the race, nnd "Miss Wilson" found herself $.'00 richer, with the additional satisfaction satisfac-tion of having a good laugh at the expense ex-pense of bir companions Had she lost her first bet her life might have eontlnued along the same fulet lines as before, but the S00 made a deep Impression upon Hie oung wo. man she was not more than 20 years old at that time and the next day saw her again nt the race track. This time she wus alone. Her friends of the previous pre-vious day had no thought of becoming legulars and, perhaps, even she herself did not dream of such a thing at that time v At nil events regular she did become, nnd during that summer and the following fol-lowing fall nnd winter there wns not a day that did not find her nt the track. Hhe was n young woman ot striking appearance, ap-pearance, a brunette taller than the or-dlnnry, or-dlnnry, and nlwajs dressed n la mode. In those first whirling das of speculation specula-tion she did not hesllnte to accept new a slntnnees, and some of them gave h rfonn.itlon that frequently led to r -39 It wns not long before she be-i, be-i, a familiar figure at the Iracks, whcio she had a following among the women thnt wns quite her own Hhe early showed a faculty of backing back-ing winners at long prices. One day at Hrlghton bench, In a selling race for joungsters. two of the starters were by Congiessmnn Scott's Imported French stnlllon Hayan dor whose get at tliut ' lime was very successful One of the I Itaon d Or colts was the favorite, while I the other was a despised outsider. "Miss Wilson" was Impartial in her liking lik-ing for both of them she having heard something of their sire and she bought a mutunl ticket on each. The fnvorlto finished far back In tho ruck, while the iinthnught of ltaon d Or won. "Miss Wilson's" ticket was one of the only two sold on him, and netted her something some-thing more than J500. When Mike livvjer pulled off his famous fa-mous Hose llosi cup at Hllzabelh "Miss Wilson" was one of tho luck speculators, specula-tors, and again she had 100 to 1 for her money Bhe had the right tip that day I from Henator John McCarty of llrook-I llrook-I lyn Daly and two fillies named Hose and Hosn both bred by the late U. II, Withers ond both by the same sire, the only difference being In the name of their dams One had speed and the other wan the poorest kind of a selling plater Pal started the slow ono In a race one da and quite naturally ihe was 1 beaten out of sight. A few days later he brought out the fast one nnd every one excepting those whose attention was called to the difference thnupht It was tho same one thnt hid already made such n dlsgraieful showing The pen Hers cheerfully marked up 100 to 1 against her nnd the money was pHced ro carefully through the ring that not until th horses weie at the post did the bookmakers begin to suspect that something some-thing was doing The mare got off with n fljlng start nnd wns nevrr hetded When the la-ers la-ers nf odds had finished pa) lug oft they scrulliiired the records a little more carefully and dlscoveied hem shrew dl they hnl been duped The one llitle difference dif-ference between an 'a and an "e" at the end of the name hid been the cause of their undoing nnd thej had to admit there was no ono to blune but themselves. them-selves. For onl one season wns "Miss Wilson Wil-son absent from the turf Her famll) had sought In eer way to Induce her to put an end to her speculation nnd as a last resort, offered her it trip to Europe Eu-rope She consented to iiccompan her mother and for six months was nwn It was then thought thnt she had been completrl) cured of her Infatuation fo( the turf, anil when she returned to America she did remain away from the track for n few weeks Hut the old desire wns too strong to be overcome, nnd In a di she again became be-came a regular Hlnce then she Ins never missed seeing n. race In the metropolitan met-ropolitan district the onl difference In her methods novvndas being that she does not seek or tnke ndvlce from nn one She bets entlrelj on her own han dlcnrplng nnd Judgment nnd on many oenalons has picked wlnneis In the git-lops git-lops prrllniluar) to i rate Her wngeis nre smnller than the were when she started but when she thinks she has selected a real good thing she does not hesitate to plunge on It for her limit In her unostentatious, Inconspicuous Incon-spicuous way, "Miss. Wilson," ns she still Insists on calling herself Is n unique figure nt the rare track these da) s. New York Telegraph |