Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1904 — Wanted the Result. [ARTICLE]

Wanted the Result.

“Horse racing is n heroic sport, and to this feature alone is due its intense fascination,’’ said Wallace P. Herndon of Chicago. Mr. Herndon had just come down from a race meeting at Latonia, with his winnings. “People who condemn the sport seem to forget the heroic feature-. “Recently I perpetrated a sorry trick on one qf these folks, and it was a clergyman too. As an eyewitness I described the running of a great hr.:; 'ieap, and to make it more Interesting I proceeded to color my story a bit to tell bow a certain horse was challenged repeatedly from the start and how the race was In doubt up to the last moment. “I left the field a few jumps from the finish. Then I said: “ T knew a famous horseman once who said that a race horse Is of Interest to only three persons—the kid that tides him, the lobster that bets on him and the thief that owns him/ “‘Yes, yea,* cried the clergyman impatiently, ‘but which of those horses •won on the day you spoke of?* Loufitvllle Herald.