. The driving clubs of greater Boston .. . MAJOR DELMAR, 1:59 3-4 I repeated the proposition I had made over the wire, and he said, "That is right, and as I understand it," and was turning to go out when I said to him, "You know, Alta, that we are to give a consolation with a purse of $2,000 to horses starting and not winning money in the race ; 'T shan't want to start in it," he replied. "I'll get money out of this ; Yet, I know that the horse would not have started on less liberal terms, but would have been engaged in a purse race instead. Alta a
. The driving clubs of greater Boston .. . MAJOR DELMAR, 1:59 3-4 I repeated the proposition I had made over the wire, and he said, "That is right, and as I understand it," and was turning to go out when I said to him, "You know, Alta, that we are to give a consolation with a purse of $2,000 to horses starting and not winning money in the race ; 'T shan't want to start in it," he replied. "I'll get money out of this ; Yet, I know that the horse would not have started on less liberal terms, but would have been engaged in a purse race instead. Alta and his party won handsomely on the race, and a framed photograph of the check for iiis winnings hung as a valued trophv-in his cffice at home. CHAPTER II Inside Facts About the Charley Herr-Cresceus Race at Readville LIKELY no event created so much criticism at the time, and is even mentioned to this day in horse circles, as the stallion race of 1900, for a purse of $20,000, which has gone down into history as the Charley Herr-Cresceus race. I was much surprised, the other day, to find that this event of fourteen years ago the 27th of last September, recalled to one spec- tator only the impression of a "fixed" race. The bitter nature of the struggle for first money and the stallion championship, in fact, the whole magnitude of the event had left only hazy recollections, the only clearly defined impression remaining was that it was a "fixed'' race. This man said to me that he had been at Readville a day or two of the Grand Circuit meeting in 1912, not having attended before in many years, and it seemed to him that racing had lost the snap, dash and ex- citement that characterized it in the betting days. It was dull and uninteresting, he thought, and not to be compared with that of former years, although of former times one race hacl left a bad impression. "Most of the racing there," he said, "seemed to me to be on the level, but I re- member seeing
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