New Nick Carter Weekly #18 — page 6: what you’re looking at

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= *_ =|, oo” i .= # Thier Tral u. +s, I Es tentedly along somewhere in the rear. - face; ‘“Sitdown, Tommy,’’ says his com- panion, ‘“‘you look as if you all the work yourself.”’ sf feel as if I were, ’’ retorts Tommy, wiping his brow. thews take the lead as he xht to?” Somes, ’’ returns the other. citement the crowd on the grand stand giows more quiet. and watch the steeple chasers as they a long line. _ the position of the horses. Reno and Starlight are near the rear, _ and those who are watching them can see that Matthews and his colored rival are eying each other and paying no at- erst tention to the riders of other horses. Around the course they go and one Romretch the leading horse catches his hoofs pon a oye of brushwood ane connpetitecys himself | in a gid | re mediately here is a flutter of excitement upon - thos meh re COr ling rapidly behind. — Mal cid asa fe 01, ” is the Aerie ts sata mark, s*¢ @-« Zz a = ‘rT. ##=.- aa r — ao . Matthews and the rider of Sano. jog con-| of winning and the jockey may have ‘toward the i ct ste fhista: fe doesn’t Mat-| horses so as to get them nearer to the fro | when they pass the grand stand. Almost all of the spectators sit down| becomes almost a bunch at this point. -_- separate from the bunch and string out in| ng ‘leadership with no more thana length be- The first hurdle is taken by all with-| sont difficulty and without any change in ‘tion apparently to tl ‘crowd who urge then to forge ahead and take the place in the race where they | Stiri de after another, is taken without] belong. 1% 4 st "anata until just as they enter the home d = I 7 @ # - - ; . ie). 1 ' ‘ m a. . : L 1. ‘ s 4 . : , ; “4 - aot = ~—— . fi y Mi. * yt | ~ | - . ke: wil - o "a + , . fd a ; = a. , + ' « —. ’ I a Pf = ~—— =. ; | | boil - td ‘ : P = ’ i i, J ¥ s ‘ »” : , q , +. ’ — 4 | 7 | a iJ i J = - This judgment is doubtless correct. The horse probably had no real chance other and shorter race. The rest of the steeple chasers take that burdle wrtnot) Saggheaa and the bunch n nas The race is not half over yet but the ‘spectators all rise and cheer loudly in ‘‘He’ll take the lead when the time | order to make a good showing for their favorites. _ After the first moment of feverish ex- Some of the jockeys have spusred their , J = The result is that the straggling line Fully a dozen are straining for the tween the foremost and the last of the bunch. Two or three lengths behind the bench however, coine Reno and Starlight can- tering side by side, their jockeys resting ‘easy in the saddle and paying no atten- Back of these two favorites are three or four other horses who are straggling upon ‘along hopelessly beaten. It is not until the grand stand has been well passed that Matthews and the colored boy on Reno begin to show some signs of rea] life. d and again, the spectators | =... BDeQl ) T! JOT | their horses but it 1s plain that in some =. They -are great y relieved we en co <j ; te sy h atity an ont of the way of | It cannot be seen that they are urging : way their animals are now going strong, Both are leaning fax Over their necks, gimcgt at their Rosai ears, f =_ s a | : i s - e > ia * ‘ 5 — ] !