Show The Great Benefit Benet Handicap Chicago Tribune It n happened down at the St Louis track said aid the old race follower A little Jockey had been crippled for life in a hurdle race and was sent to the I hospital tal The other jocks at the track I started out to raise a fund for tor him Ther called on the horse owners and everybody around the track to con contribute contribute contribute tribute and each of them put in as much as he could raise Finally they 1 get together iN MO but this was not enough to do much good fore fora for fa boy who I was w crippled for tor life and the jocks were not BOt satisfied They finally with I the assistance of or the track owners and horsemen arranged e for a grand bene bone benefit benefit I fit handicap to be run next day to in Increase crease e the fund The handicap was at ata ata a mile Bd over the hurdles There I were seven entries and the seven jock eye ell were ivere all 11 leaders in the th e movement to raise a fund for their colleague Be Before Before Before fore the race those seven boys as af at aft t ward developed got together and laid their plan pIn for providing prodding enough I money to keep the crippled jockey out I of the poorhouse e for tor the rest of his life lIf The scheme was this When the I odds on the grand benefit handicap were posted po ted the UN eO in the benefit fund was to be feet bet et on ott the longest horse In Inthe Inthe inthe the race Then they were to work to together together gether ether and shoo him in to the enrich enrichment mont meat of the fund fuad and the despoilment de OY If the bookmakers They carried it out too though it caused one of or the funniest t scenes ever witnessed on a racetrack The horse on which the was bet at odds of S to 1 was a mean brute rute and threw his hie boy at the first hurdle Forthwith the other six jock jockeys jockeys eys eye proceeded to fall faU oft off their horses as asif asIt asIf if It they had bad ha been boon struck by lightning Finally the boy on the long Iou shot caught his brute and started s ted again only to tobe tobe tobe be thrown at the fourth hurdle In n Instantly the other boys foR feH off f their mounts again and finally the dog was war forced home first As a result the jockeys turned over more than i ito to their injured comrade |