. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. March 29, 1902] ©h£ gvee&ev atxb gpcvtsmaix 9 HIDALGO'S GOSSIP. J SPECIAL CORRESPOSDEXCK • Los Angeles, March 20th. There has been a good deal of queer looking running at the Oakland track, during the past three weeks; and vet, while appearances are very much against cer- tain beaten horses, it is by no means certain that there was any fraudulent intent upon the part of owners, trainers or jockeys. Horses are like men, the victims of whims and moods, not to say "isms,- as the late Secretary Brewster was wODt to put it. Some of the more acrobatic offend
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. March 29, 1902] ©h£ gvee&ev atxb gpcvtsmaix 9 HIDALGO'S GOSSIP. J SPECIAL CORRESPOSDEXCK • Los Angeles, March 20th. There has been a good deal of queer looking running at the Oakland track, during the past three weeks; and vet, while appearances are very much against cer- tain beaten horses, it is by no means certain that there was any fraudulent intent upon the part of owners, trainers or jockeys. Horses are like men, the victims of whims and moods, not to say "isms,- as the late Secretary Brewster was wODt to put it. Some of the more acrobatic offenders beat stake horses one day and are beaten by the slowest of selling platers, a day or two later. Whenever the offender is a poor man's horse, his owner gets suspended for a month, at least; and if it occurs twice in one season, the stewards come down on him with a verdict of expulsion. August Bel- mont had out three horses in one season, all by old Rayon d'Or and all bad actors at the post—Octagon, Firearms and Don de Oro. Nobody for one moment would suspect that gentleman of wanting to lose a race from a desire to enrich his individual bank account, but it goes without saying that had the three horses above mentioned belonged each to a poor man, their three owners would have gotten the "walk off" order at their second failure to win. It is hard to imagine three faster or more inconsistent performers than they were. Hence I say there are a great many charges of crooked work on the track that have no real foundation in fact. Much of this work comes from reporters on the daily papers who get lazy and don't go out to look at the horses in their preliminary work. They go out to see the races at the appointed hour and then take the word of some unsavory and irresponsible "tout" who tells them: " Hully gee! Yer orter have seen Bullwhacker go up dat back stretch dis mornin'. Went to der half in forty-seven and under a big pull; and dat stable boy on h
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