Show LOST OST HIS WIl WINNINGS 1 pittsburg Phil Says It Stopped From Hedging n Mar E Eo Smith anath Phil PMT rare race rat track t plunger Planter to b an ao aoth th I y quiet q tf Wren man an hr hp almost ost new speaks even la to with hM i of Jg bla o en In connection with the y however ever oa on oat oahe hf he rid tide from Hot Ark to topI torn t Nh rn pI York Turk be he met an oM old friend a arill Washington rill iI known knot n lf j ie all d l Buck BucY by bin hili trien frien friends a aad ad t UC Phil told toW a little tory story loar our ni Buck lie he said act to b bire th ire hr Washington t man makes make me foe think pINY time I meet you or nr any other h lend nd d t that Wants nacie D 14 of the wont u I Peer er VM myself my elf on ort onar orta ona ar are track a It t happened at the In Ingleside track In m i l a few fn years yea liP ago I spelt IatI pe t I to ti sinter int r Wring raring season out made a pretty bad trail ia a of oC It despite the extraordinary e sail aad foolish reports u aa to my vast winnings Up Dp to the time flare that aMt UM tM happened tint that rm Im going to te tell ten you shoat about I had ked and played no ten lew I than losers lo e straight losers lo k ersal al although though the tIM ingenious young OIl turf tart re reporters porters for tor or the San BaD Francisco papers had W It ft that tat I Mil had slaughtered the tLe ti ring OB oft almost every very one of those thane bad things Now I make a business of looking the horses horror over myself 1 during daring their work and early one ape ae morning I snapped my Illy watch on old oid BuckA a who I be believe believe believe lieve still the champion champon fourmile four tour fourmile mile record as be he covered a mile Bile and anda a It half halt on the bit In like i 40 10 The Tha old nag nab Da was waa w Just then Uen going t Into taro training t after a long letup and his hie b performance astounded me He was high Mg i in b flesh and looked far from froma a horse horre in racing trim but the way I ke Ire got over oyer the ground during the progress of ot that gallop with wick a heavy stable bIe boy on oft bi laW tola back ba k astonished nl me and I made roads up p my m mind Wind to put a pop popping op opping I ping commission on hint him the first time he started The old horse horae was being i kept pretty well under ender cover by hit his owner and I knew that be a big i price his hie chance the tnt flirt time I he went to the post poet po t Buck carded to go 50 to th the post poet po t until about three weeks weeD later and andI I had been getting ou Oft the Ule wrong ones oneil right along was wall down to go So goin goIn in a race with a alot alot II lot Jot of tM the th The Theother Th Theother other horses were so good and still looked so eo high in 10 flesh ne h and general generally ral Ily ly rank that the books laW laid aa ae high a as aa 40 to 1 t against hie b chances chanceL It got some ome mosey money mf Ky down dowa at that figure and some ome more when heo they out cut ut the price a trifle trine at 30 SO to 1 I so eo that bi b the time the horses borree were being saddled to go Ao to the post po tI I stood to draw down some something something thing II i ON m ht case aid oid B should win WID Id bad had a talk with Buck Juck uck was wae w owner an an ae old friend of ot mine mint and he be thought that bin bis horse had aa as good pod gooda a chance aa tin ay r of ot the despite pate I his hir bl apparent robt t lack laek of condition I sat rsC in the grand Brand with a afi atrit fi friend lend nd a heavy beery b operator ope tor to watch the race As hs the Ute him came name out of ot the paddock gate onto veto this the ih oid Buck Buci wa WI x who ho led fed the procession k frig over a piece of ot paper that flew spy cross the track and started to 0 run He e Sail had runa runaway ay habits and am aa AS a I I 1 tt It Mm in the act of talon ta i rife bi bit weep een his teeth and galloping up the th stretch ats at a raring racing speed felt that the money stoney I l had bet on hi s burnt up be about all of for ro r I mine mist said I E to tu tie the e man loan me Hes Hell going to keep ke kel right On an running iuA n iD h tin till he jumps the fence tence H Oh no I guess not the boy bo k kable w wable able to take him up he con confidently n tiT H WeM tit eN said I T Im I m oa on the rite plug at tit 40 tb and 30 to 1 and IT if youre so ro confident the boyll boyI get him you can have baye 1001 1 worth orth of mine at 50 to L Youre on said d he and aad halt half a min minute minute minute ute later I was gl glad d I heft had hedged out that way for old Did kept right on going and the boy had no fro chance cba ce whatever of holding In the Ute i hardheaded brute It was my friends I turn to fo be chagrined that ha ale e had taken tak taken taken en the bet when the old aid horse horae raced around the track three times just ju t three miles before ha he was wad That an easy thousand thou and for you to get set back he ha i 4 J to me as the U horses the tH tired Bockwa kwa trailing be br behind b hind bind the field w nt to the po post t wont finish now flow within a quarter q ter of t a 8 mile of the Ehe t le d flers s kWh B they got to the poet post however how however however ever it was easy to see that the boyan boy boyon on an was purposely delaying the theIn start in order ord er to give ghe the old horse borse un under under under der him a chance to rest relit and cool out exactly what he did and amt he was fined for it by the starter but the theDo boy hoy Do figured that would have a chance runaway or no runaway and he kept the field fled at the post for thirty floe five minutes before he made up his mind that had sufficiently recovered re recovered recovered covered himself to make any kind dad of a ahon showing ing in the race Then they got away to a swagger start You can ean imagine how I felt when hen I saw old shoot right out from the first jump and assume sume a a commanding lead sail He Ile dt seem to tobe tobe be suffering In la the slightest degree from that wild w d preliminary racing raring gallop gal gallop gallop lop of three miles milK and the farther he went tits the greater the lead he gained OB on his He swept under the wire six lengths in advance of the bunch I and aad there was my DO winning I knocked into a cocked hat by the 1000 at 50 60 to 1 that I had laid off when II the old brute started to run away I I have never hedged a bet once made J since that day and I never newer will execute 1 another hedge on a 8 race track as sa long longas as Im playing them thema I a |