. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. Vol. XXXIIX No. 23. No. 22)£ GEARY STREET. SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10,1898 THE STARTER'S LOT. Charley Trevathan Shows that it is AnytihrjR but a Happy One. None of the turf writers who wrote their first accounts of racing matters for California papers wields a readier pen than Chas. E. Trevathan, who is now living in New York and contributing articles on racing and other affairs to the daily papers of that city. The following from his pen on the subject of starters will be especially interesting at this time, when the flag wielder is being discussed b
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. Vol. XXXIIX No. 23. No. 22)£ GEARY STREET. SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10,1898 THE STARTER'S LOT. Charley Trevathan Shows that it is AnytihrjR but a Happy One. None of the turf writers who wrote their first accounts of racing matters for California papers wields a readier pen than Chas. E. Trevathan, who is now living in New York and contributing articles on racing and other affairs to the daily papers of that city. The following from his pen on the subject of starters will be especially interesting at this time, when the flag wielder is being discussed by everybody, from ex-Secretaries of the Navy to race track touts: Every year about the time that chill December comes around and the real race horses of the year are munch- ing hay in box stalls, and the turf followers are telling hard luck and others stories about the fire, the starting question bobs up. It is a sort of ante-Christmas growl. It begins with the fault finding of the season's loserB and spreads like an epidemic to the more reasonable utterances of owners, trainers and supporters of the turf. During the past fifteen years it has been my fortune to see all or nearly all the starters of America, from "Prince ' Caldwell down to "Curly Brown," and I have envied no one of them. One hundred dollars a day is a tempting bait, and men have bitten at it often. Some of them have n ver been the same since the nibble. Others are still struggling along under the load of per- sonal abuse, intense hatreds and public execration which has fallen to their part. Starters are just plain human folk, but nobody seems to think so, and it is just as legitimate to insult a red flag man with any in- nuendo or epithet as it is to kick a yellow dog. Owners, trainers, jockeys, bookmakers, stable boys, casual track visitors, fellow track officials, all take a crack at the starter, and there is sympathy for him nowhere on this sad earth He earns that hundred. Ever since the Roman
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