Salt Lake Tribune | 1907-07-21 | Page 22 | Thomas is Struck with Brainstrom

THOMAS II MCI WITH BHAIISTORM Bets Large Amount on Horse Which Looks Like Loser Until Last Moment. Tribune Spoclal Sporting Service NEW YOP.E, July 20. R. L. Thomas, tho Kentucky turfman who .celebrated his marriage by engineering a coup ou Wexford to the tuno of $3o,000, had an experience at Shoopshcnd Bay hist week that for down-right nerve-racking mcx dents is iu a class almost by itself. Tor moro than two-thnds or n si?.-furlong si?.-furlong raco ho watcned one of nw own horses, a dospiscd long snot, leud by two or three lcugtns the poerkss lose-ben lose-ben on which Thomas has wagered m00 to win only $1UUU. Whom ltoo-ben ltoo-ben finally won. Thomas moicd lus face and declared that ho ncv.)r wanted to experience anything of the Kind again. . , The brainstorm inducer occurred in tho first ruco, where Koscocn was dropped in wiu a lot that kj scemctt to outclass thoroughly, .usd against which the lavcrs ol odds woinl 'IUT no better than I to -1 and 1 to J. ilaensel carried the "white, blue belt, reel sleeves" of the Kcntnckian, and was so lightly fancied that the offer of nl) to 1 against his chances found few takers. Thomas wagered a few dollars oil Haeusel 's chance to show, but bis big bet was on Koscben, on which a wagor scented simplv liko lending money at big iuterest for a few minutes. When tho barrier ascended Ilaensel was on his toes and outsprintcd all his opponents to tho first turn, where he swung, into a lead of throe leugths and maintained it without difficulty until well into rho stretch. In the moan-time moan-time his owner watched the race irom' tho grandstand box with the horses coming com-ing almost head-on toward him. Tho race was ncarlv over before, he renhzedj that Rosoben had collared his own horso and would win. n the first minute o tho contest, while it seemed that Ilaensel might win. Thomas had run the gamut of emotions, and was iust figuring what he might have won on his own horse when he saw Rosoben stride into the lead. As it was, he could havo won a fortune by placing the samo amount on Hacnscl for the place position.