| Show I HUNCHES BASED BAS D DON ON HORSES HORSES' NAMES NAME Cases Case s of Mis Misplaced p laced Confidence Confident e 4 are are Numerous and Sad WISDOM OF OFT THE H E Q DAY AY AFTER n Bettors Often Figure F FJ Out Ont Ingenious t 1 Combinations al Ion S 1 lint nt ot Many lean f Bets arc nrc Cashed r No horse over ever yet et ran taster faster than nature intended It should because of the name some owner selected eted for re registry re- re with whir the Jockey Club said a d. d t disgruntled man who fete played d Dandelion 1 c to win twin the Metropolitan letro and was teas still sore because the horse hOl-e ran second 9 Look at nt that lawn covered co with dandelions tani dan tan i delions Did Dd any anyone one ate ever see so man many dandelions at al Belmont Delmont park that a If legitimate hunch If ever evet I there thero was one Can you figure out how tote Dandelion could po possibly lose loc l And Ant can cnn you OU understand how butt that R grand Krand rand stand full Cull of or do dope P a fiends could fall to back Dandelion to win Yet het selling a-selling as a's plater phi tel named Grapple Crappie r 1 n a a Womb name which cannot bo by figured out outos ns os nn any kind of or hunch hunch comes comes along and cops the beautiful Dandelion Ill I'll t n never ver again play pIa a 1 horse because of pf If Its name never name never sh shelp lp me never Im I'm through I dont don't care what names the mutts nutts race under the they've ve got to show how fete me before Ill I'll tack hack em cm again And An c the dis dl disgruntled g 1 person JeNon ersan settled back Into his car corner n e elott r as ns the thu race train 1 lott ed up ed up for Cor Then rhen after a long pause he Iw continued continued continued contin contin- Theres lost ever every evry year yearby ear by hy these hunch floods fiends who fete think only of or names and not o of p past ass f perform antes ances 1 I have L been een one of ot the foolish ones but no nu more for me I f i Dandelions I Deceitful f r I have gono Bono to the track looking for hunches I have sunk suhl a wad ad after wad toad tu in the vain pursuit of hunches And Ant when I saw aw that beautiful lawn at Belmont today fairly tt with Ith yellow dandelions I thought sure I had at last copped ou out the real hunch of oC my life at 20 0 t to I J. J But ut no no the Uw hunch was ass bent beaten en it by a selling plater There Thera was ryas Jersey Ludy In the hh hird d drace race too Now what else could Jersey I Lady mean menn but butIr Mrs Ir Langtry And Ami once upon a thou I l knew the tho Jersey Lady arty after otter whom the tIle mutt mull was named Intact t 1 had e even Cn yen done don a a. lid tid stroke of Jf business bu tv JUl th her that nett netted cd me a 1 few fw thousand Sentiment and loyalty Impelled me mC meto meto to plu play fifty ty on Jer Jersey cy Iad Lady It seemed like Ilke a sign post from h heaven hen en sent down downto to Indicate to me the horse I mu must t play I blush Mush to designate the exact 0 place Ilace where Jer Jersey ey Lad Lady finished In Inthe 0 the ruck r r.- r. Then there was Sonoma Belle Delle theother the theother other day Ive I've just moved Into nto a news new s Hat flat house called the Sonoma and und th the f very vry day Sonoma Belle was wag entered red i electrician called to fix my bell Hunch h n well ellI I fairly new Hew toward the he and to Belmont Behn nt ferry terry to be by beure sure ure get park In time for Cor that race All the Way ay I was spending that money Then Ihen the pontes ponies s started and Sonoma Bonoma Belle elle proved a sure enough no gh ringer for tor It didn't make mako any noise when It came along seventh or eighth In the procession slon J Tale Talc of or Sheriff Bell Y Talking of Sonoma Belle Delle reminds t F m inc o of another grand stand hunch that l went wrong two years ears ago at t head Remember Sheriff Sherif Bell the line old ld selling Melling plater that won so many t races s that year Sheriff Bell Bellas as was teas l my choice chutes on form orm anyhow but on the WlL way down to the track I picked up an afternoon paper t tat had columns on ff r f the first page about the rJ riots In Colora Colorado Colo Colo- ra rode rado o. o or r The Th dispatches dl said that the lot gov governor o had Just I placed laced Sheriff Sherif Bell in charge of all the National Guard troops on on dut duty at Cripple Creek Say SayI I 1 Just jUH naturally hid that paper from fromI I the he crowd on the train for fat or fear some of the other regulars would read about Sheriff Bell und and nd force Coree the price downto down to odds on Some one had been reading about Sheriff Bell that day and anti every even one oneat oneat oneat at the track seemed certain ce the old olde selling e plater would win He lIe was backed backed back back- ed Pel d wn from front fours to 1 t to B 5 6 and 1 I played a hundred of my hard earned coin on the Sheriff But what's the use Subsequent events pro protect that there was no no possible pos- pos sible connection between n a racehorse named Sheriff Sherif Bell ell and an Individual t. t two thousand miles away n In the cold colt light of f reason reason son whatever r made mado me think that hor horse e could win Just he- he rause a sheriff with the same name I figured In the news Spent a month that year nar ear up at Lake Sunapee New Hampshire When hei I I. I came back for tor the Brighton meeting I there was teas a two year ear o-ear old named Sunapee Suna Suna- pee lice about to start In lu a juvenile jU race Hat Had never started before and was to toL- toL 1 End Ind o of or Sunapee I HI couldn't help it It-I It I played a five dollar Iollar note on Su Sunapee and when thorace tho race tt went ent up to 00 OO to 1 I I put in a aten ten teri dollar note not five c straight and antI live five to show at ut BO ill to J. J 1 1 L stood in n to win twin 1750 1760 j if the tho hunch had been beNi worth anything But little Sunapee finished s thirty thirty- tet te cn en lengths behind the leaders in a and has never Hover sported sport sport- flue five furlong dash tash ed silk since I helloes believe Sunapee la IH s haulIng haulIng haul haul- Ing a milk wagon in Brooklyn nowThen now note Then theres there's Rye He the speedy three- three beaten by uy Gln- Gln year old old nr that was just ette in the last race the tho opening day at Belmont Rye was the favorite Why Because lu e titer every we 1 man who fete went In to get a s drink called for tor rye kt key Ive Ive I've played Ryo Hy for tor so ro long tang cant can't stay oft off this this' time you OU could hear hearl ever every one saying saying- be- be Uye He Ite became favorite simply cause caus of his name natTe And Ant It was ass more than tales rates satire that all the old soaks had been drinking r rye ryo o for so tt who ho fo havo have been beaten Lenten man marry many years should named of 1 h by u a horse it 6 gin I played laved Rye myself just like tho 1110 rest of tho thu c soaks oaks but como come to think of It I always a s did dill Ilk like gin gift fl in t to n rye p reference preference band bant played i Just t because the Scotch mu music lc the other day was waN that reason why I should have ha played loot Hoot But Hut I 1 did ant and sd d did lot lots lotsof t of ot r deluded mortals who r f regret bret gret It U now Sentiment t c nt jn In Individuals j named after Hordes ii s fur furnish flab fome of the saddest cases of or recall Rents Ile- Ile misplaced d s laced confidence I can p how tuber in ht one ono o of the rho recent plays plas who fete 1 Is a s th the ho g 6 good od natured old gent gentleman eman warned arned a that a n ba bank In which his hiM sav- sav tt deposited may f fall Call ail sa says Y slogs s- s logs are arc known th the Impossible I havo have president of that bank since he hr was wa wasa 9 a d boy named ate aCter r I all lot let un nf hor hono r J J s' s 4 1 I an dual start In a race and every every ev ev- ery cry one ono who who knows the orl original wl place a n bet on ors tho rho mutt just as a matte of sentiment But Hut what goo goot good are arc the hunches On Only horsy I ever heard heart o of that tha won In n spite of oC the thc handicap of or bein being named otter after an actress was this Grace Grac Geor George e. e a two year 3 old ear that copped capped a 11 juvenile race at 20 0 to 1 the other do day daj dayal at al Jamaica The press agents tried to prove next da day that HIll Billy Brady th the I. I husband of oC Grace George had wool won by hy playing the horse for sentiments sentiment's senti- senti ments ment's sake but the thc bookmakers bookmAkers' sheets showed that no on one except a afen afew afew few fen pickers had hod played the tho filly Oily at alland all and md only a f few fea W dollar bets cashed c Ill Il wager a n ten dollar note against a sour sou apple that If IC Brady had bet het on Grace George Ceorge Ge just because e she hc tt was as name Warned after otter his hs wife the m mutt ut would have ha finished d next to last Hor o Named At Narragansett Park last summer ummer In the betting ring while undecided a which to 10 pia play I lost rn my pro pro- gramme There Thera was a n horse horge name Warned d Pro In the race I bought anew a anew anew new played 10 on Pro Pro- gramme and gramme-and and went home broke brake that tha da day Surel Surely such a hunch bunch ought to have cashed In n if It f any anyone one believes In fairies fables I played Ostrich one day dap because my a wife's fes fe's ostrich plumes plume were spoiled polled b by rain on the way to the track I r have played Batts BatH because I drank too ton man many ryes one any night I played Highball Highball High High- ball two years ago because an EnglI Eng lI lishman with me Insisted d on ordering highballs all the wa way to the tho track and that was ryas the day tay poor poor POOl Highball broke his leg leg- and had to be ue shot shoe hotI I tofu have played horses named after nearly story ery t n IY one of m my favorite ta act- act esses I played 11 a horse named Snow at s a year ago because there happened to bo Lo a slight flurry nurry of oC snow Just b before the race I have pla played ed hundreds on account of their ther names but I can cnn truthfully say a that I have hove vcr never yet YN et cashed a bet Let on n any ny of t these he e Vea lunches New ew York fork Sun |
