New Nick Carter Weekly #18 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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NEW NICK CARTER W iY, horse lovers : every year! aos . new to this part of the country. , O win it means fame for the horse - People who have seen him exercising and fortune for the owner! durin Q the past two weeks are more than _ Like the Suburban, Brooklyn Handi-| | satisfied ap and Futurity, it is talked about and/| | Winning Jooked fowrard to all through the winter | tc ; and spring. that he has a good chance of 30 «while Starlight continues be the popular favorite, Ren~ has a |plenty of shrewd and confident backers. got In fact, one might almost say that no| ‘There are enough of them to make the eee sooner has one race forthe ‘Treadwell. betting lively and keep the odds down to as Se been run, than people immediately |a point that gives ss greater and greater in- BA oo to think of the next one, a year! terest to the result. * 2 cubed Aas _ The other horses entered have theis i is not only an important event as a! backers too, but they are contest between already Sous bdbsaat and are made up mainly of ea seu gat but it is a long steeple chase. and women too for that matter, who 2 _ A form of race that is unusually fas-| make a practice of taking long chances, asc “tet to the vast majority of the! As the time for the race approaches th spectators | style of betting changes somewhat. Gay More than that it is the only steeple} So great is the feelin g that Sunlight " a Chase on the day’s programme, the other| must win, that most of the backers of Teoh - a she widss races for various other horses are anxious to hedge their F | bets by taking a chance on the favorite. se. This feeling at last compels the book- : Jut of pene igh s or more entries for Sagi to lump most of the horsesin “field’’ against Starlight or Reno, for Reno still has his crowd of stubborn is O Brien’ S F iecctioa: friends. ec e rse has a long record of suc-| The fourth race has been run and the | 3 aa, nd many a time it has brought| big ‘‘field’’ entered for the fifth is now good ste ikes to the pockets « of Its backer, | oanitetiig: this way and that upon the en when there was a splendid ‘‘field’?| course in» preparation for the bis “rat of — nst hi | the day. : Se The excitement grows wilder in the : jumphs s early; - but theta betting ring and mes sengers are kept fly- t 7 begin to rr the iose who t that Hasty ng bias the grand .stand bh. and — P A ° _= Ti. & y i, . x @ ry — | F = ,* _ ” ' ee, “ wy ar 4 - - rp | : .. ; od > Cae 4 “ 7 r - | - TF ee | =! az " _ . | ribet men stil] doubtful of their inde. linens push their wey: Speen ‘es be e are few|ring to the rail anc 1 to pe ERECT Ye: row é: | chasers as they car ter past. | f the public are faithful to Star- | | They then return to the fli fae 36 iA have placed iced money upon |t rpose seb shapating ee pees or for lane. ~ * iz 2. 5 in oo a ”™ > * * , - ra ms "4 9 = 4 . \ . 7 ’ bs + - "i 4 i | 5 > > ve , ! , at] ' r. “ a“ , | — i a. - ik ! Ls : ‘inner ) ~ ’ ‘ ' | | ’ = ; : : * a * oe . ’ . : F ‘ 6} } | L He is younger than Starlight and is :* | - ’ | : | 1 a f | ; 1 2 4 i Hl i | 1 . & I = - J : * ‘ 7 = * > —¥ inp =