| Show LUCK OF THE RACE TRACK Big Part Played by Fortune in Taking Tak-ing Down Purses Dont tell me theres nothing in luck said a horseman whose thoroughbreds took part In the recent race meeting at the Bcnnincs track Theres a horse that was bought for S2o a few months ago Had I been tho purchaser you would have seen him bringing up the roar today but Lucky Bill bought him and ho comes home in front while my 2000 nag Is chasing him himThere There Is no class of men In the world cnss that has so much faith In the potency of good or bad luck as horsemen A man does not have to be a bettor in order or-der to become convinced that luck cer exists and the philosopher who claims that there is no such thing as luck would find some emphatic contradictors If he attempted to tell some of the owners and trainers of thoroughbreds that they are not unlucky but suffering suffer-ing merely from neglect of opportunity The man referred to was one of the most successful owners of thoroughbreds thorough-breds on the turf a few years ago He had stable of good horses and every time he bought a runner the animal was almost sure to turn out a good one For the last few years he has been down on his luck and not one of his town horse won a race this year There are many other men In like situations One of the most fortunate turfmen last season was John E Madden Mad-den the Kentucky horseman I is true that Nadden Is one of the most farsteing and capable trainers of racers that the American turf ever knew but at the samo time he is extremely ex-tremely lucky He seems to bask constantly con-stantly In the sunlight of fortune Early last year three horses Colonel Bill The Rival and Slipthrlft were given up as bad propositions by their owners and trainers Madden secured l them and under his magical hand they developed into great racers I Is hardly hard-ly 1 fair to the former trainers of these horses to say that they were incompetent incom-petent I was simply a case of luck Madden was not only lucky in handling hid horses last year and winning purses and stakes with them but he made many successful winnings In the ring One of his biggest wagers was on the juniper Fulminate for t place Four horses fell In the race but at that Rowdy and Judge Phillips beat Fulminate Ful-minate home Then Phillips was disqualified dis-qualified I meant 10000 to Madden Captain Sam Brown the Plttsburg horseman spent SSOOOO In getting ready for the campaign of 1902 but he won only one good stake Hyphen a three yearold that had been ailing early In the year rounded to In lime to capture the Brighton Derby Mart Lewis who promised to develop Into one of the best twoyearold fillies of the year was taken sick in the height of her success and died while Hyphen became a cripple crip-ple after his victory at Brighton Another cold River Pirate he let go for a trifling sum olin E Madden being the purchaser I was Maddens luck to have the horse turn out a Oracle The Illluck of W C Whitney is proverbial pro-verbial Ills racing ambition Inspired the expenditure of little less than half a million dollars In three years Last season he had but one formidable competitor com-petitor for first honors in any division I cost Harry Payne Whitney and Herman Her-man n Duryen Just 17OOO to become tho owners of Irish Lad jet the new firm won more money with their single horde than Mr Whitney did with his halfmllllondollar stable of runners James R Keene had 200000 worth of horseflesh in the Futurity with 550000 worth of Jockeys ability to ride his horses John A Drake paid Pat Dunne 522000 for Salvable In order to have a single enl In tho big race and this horse beat the Keene Mid Whitney representatives rep-resentatives besides 100000 worth of horses entered by August Belmont There are hundreds of other instances of the whimsicalities of Dame Fortune For Instance there Is Charlie Ellison the plunger whose horses won several good purses at Bennlngs Four years ago Ellison was accepting n salary from Tommy Burns When Burns was set down by the stewards last summer he begged Ellison to give him employment In Chicago Ellison has made 300000 In three years nn bears the distinction of being the only non to be barred from J n yoolrooni on account oC his large winnings I I Whitney Langdon who used to playtime play-time horses at St Asaph and Alexander Island with little success was one of the biggest plungers of the past season He started n with 200 He won SOOO on Explorer at Brighton Bench and at Saratoga h < made hls roll G000 A few weeks ago one of the heaviest plungers at Gloucester and Guttenhorg was Dutch Roller He wan worth half a million dollars Now he Is betting bet-ting 32 to a race at Now Orleans and thinks himself lucky to be able to anc that One of the best horses that ever ran I over the Bennlngs race track was a twoyearold called Sport He did not meet with defeat In all of his starts at the local course The following year he turned out ono of the best threeyear olds 01 the season and won many thousands thou-sands of dollars In bets and purses for his owner early in the yonr Later he was disqualified for an alleged foul and from that time on his owner his been n victim of Illluck In his palmy da she s-he could draw a check for 530000 |
