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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1959-12-03, Page 3ugingor" Won The English Derby A horse entered for the Derby is "kidnapped" and its place M the race taken by an older and More experienced horse of sim- ilar appearance. The substitute duly wins the race, but the gang involved An the plot are unmask- ed before they can collect the huge sums they had expected to win, That sounds like the theme of blood-and-thrinder racing noV- el of the: kind which everyone knows cannot happen in real life. But it did! True, it was more than 100 years ago, when the regulations were more lax than they are now, But to this day "Running Rein's Derby" provides one of the most fantastic stories sport has to offer. The fact that a Mur -year-old won the 1844 Derby is fairly well known to racing fans. What is not so well known is that the gang had already got away with exactly the same trick with the same masquerading horse a few weeks previously, Some sportsmen who suspect- ed trickery warned, the author - Hies then, but were not believed because they were unable to fur- nish proof. Not until the Derby had been won in similar circum- stances was their evidence in- vestigated and finally accepted, The plot had been carefully laid, It had started three years earlier when, in 1841, a race. horse owner named Goodman told his trainer, Stebbiftgs, to buy a colt foal or two "if you can pick them up cheap." Steb- bings bought for £28 a colt de- scribled as "a bay with some white hairs on the forehead." The_colt, which was named Run- ning Rein, was taken to Good - man's stables M London and then turned out into the pad- docks of a farmer named Bear at Finchley. In due course he was entered for the Derby of 1844. Not, long after Running Rein's arrival at Finchley, Goodman went to Doncaster Sales with a, farmer named Higgins, and there bought a yearling named Macca- beus-a bay with a few white hairs on the forehead. It is un. certain whether this was a coin- cidence that gave Goodman an idea or whether he had already formed his plan, but his inten- tions soon became clear. IVIaceabeus was taken to Hig- gins' farm near Northampton and put out to grass. A few months later he, too, was sent to Goodman's Londo n stables, where he remained for some time before being removed. The next development, in Sep- tember,1842, was the arrival at the Epsom' stables of a trainer named Smith of a bay colt that had some white hairs on its fore- head. The horse was described rue Running Rein. Nine months later came the first rehearsal for the grand coup. Smith ran at the Epsom meeting a horse named Mecca - hens. The stand-in was getting experience. The two animals were so alike that Only by seeing them togeth- er could a stranger tell which was which, and Goodman and his confederatea naturally did not go out`of 'Weir way to ensure that there was no confusion. Possibly both horses made a nutnber of journeys between the paddock, at Finchley, and •the training quarters at Epsom, but there are strong grounds for be- lieving that Running Rein never left Finchley from the time he arrived there. If the principals could have kept their actions to themselves their plot might never have been discovered. But employees had the actual handling of Running Rein, or Maccabeus (or both!), and eventually rumours began to leak out. The story readied the ears of Lord George Bentinck, one of the leading sportsmen of the,day, and when Running ReM was re- turned as the winner of a race at Newmarket a few weeks be- fore the Derby, Lord George raised an objection on t h e grounds that the horse was not, in Tact, Running Rein but some other. Now things began to warm up. The horse known as Running Rein found a new owner, an Epsom corn merchant, named Wood. Smith, who continued to train it, told him the sale was to MERRY MENAGERIE 'Oh, the teleph011e-1500th erase s silly- but remember the yewe they were swallowing wet" BUDDIES - Enormous, a racing greyhound, wei ghing 92 pounds, stands next to a Shet- land pony. The dog ts reputedly the world's Ice gest of his spe- des. wipe out Goodinan's unpaid training bills. Meanwhile, Lord George Ben- tinek and his friends continued investigating the history of Run- ning Rein. In doing so they dis- covered that another gang were working exactly similar lines with another horse, entered in the Derby as Leander. The anxious race stewards im- mediately called for the identity certificates of the two horses, but the switches were so clever they were still not convinced of fraud, and announced that both should be allowed to run, with the proviso that if either won the stakes were to be withheld nail a full inquiry had. been held. Leander, however, c a used them no trouble. He led the field of twenty-ninefor half a mile and then. Running Rein took overelet4elead. In passing, he kicked'Legider's offside hind leg arid smashed the bone. That was the end of Leander, leaving Run- ning Rein two lengths clear of the field. His jockey held him in then, and eventually he won by three- quarters of a length from Orlan- do, with Ionian two lengths away third. The stewards, anticipat- ing an objection, officially placed a fourth horse, Bay Momus. The objection to Running ReM was lodged,. the stakes, were with- held, and. it was decided to settle the case in the courts. This took the form of an ac- tion."to decide whether a certain colt called Running Rein which ran in a certain race foaled in 1841 whose sire was The Sad- dler and dam Mab," The plain- tiff, Alexander Wood, the owner, said it was; the defendant, Col. Peel, owner of both. Orlando and Ionian, said it was not. The case did not last long. Col. Peel produced the man who had • looked after Maccabeus at Nor- • thampton,and who swore this was the horse now called RUH- ring Rein. The judge ordered Wood, as owner of the horse, to make it available for in s p e ction at Smith's.•thaining quarters. When the experts arrived there Smith refused to allow them to see the animal unless Wood was also present. Smith had good reason for his refusal. Though he did not say so, the horse was no longer in his stalsles. It had been removed without the owners knowledge. Next morning Wood told the judge he had been grossly de- ceived by his associates and did not wish to proceed with the case. So, a month later after the race, the Derby of 1844 was of. ficially awarded to Orlando. Goodman, Bear, Higgins, and Smith were all warned off the Turf for life, and a group of admirers presented Lord George Bentinck with a piece ofplate worth :9300 for his work-in ex- posing the fraud. How Can 1? By Anne Ashley Q. Dow can 1 test the accuracy of my bathroom scales? A. Merely by weighing a eve or ten -pound bog of flour or sugar on it. Q. Stow eau 1 remedy a .,dtitl can opener? A, You can often restore a sharp edge to the opener just by boil- ing it in water for several min- utes. Q. HOW Can 1 Olean copper, brass, and pewter? A. Apply a paste made with equal parts of flour, vinegar, and salt. Let this paste remain on the metal for about an hour, then rub it off, ,and' wash the metal with warm water before, polieh- ing. Stole A House -Brick By Brick! Sunning himself in the park on his . afternoon off, the twenty- three -year-old Italian bachelor yawned at the mere thought of the strenuous work he would have to return to on a local hous- ing estate next day. A. builder's labourer, he was very strong and athletic, but he had alwrsys disliked hard work of any kind. That was one rea- son his girl friend had thrown him over a fortnight earlier. His reverie was interrupted by the appearance ref a pretty brunette, a nursemaid of about twenty, who came in sight push- ing a.pram. So gracefully did he walk by that he gazed admiringly and Was delighted to see her sit down on a seat near -by. She took out a book and be- gan to read but soon became aware of his persistent stare. lancing quickly at, his suntan- ned, handsome face, she decided that she liked the look of him. He began. the flirtation by walking to her seat and asking the time, Soon he was' seated be- side her, saying extravagant things about her fine eyes and lustrous hair. Theirs was a whirlwind court- ship. At the end of a month he proposed to her, concealing the fact that his savings were meagre, so completely did her beauty dazzle him, "I'll quit my job and marry you only on condition you build me the kind of little dream home in the country ; I've always longed for," she announced. "You'll have to do it in your spare time, but ru wait. The hard work will help cure your tendency to be lazy," she added slyly. "I love you, but I don't want a lazy husband." About a year later he told her their tiny but well-nigh perfect home.was finished, He had built it all himself, using the finest materials.. She was enraptured when she saw it. But soon afterwards, on the very eve of their wedding day, her husband -to -be was arrested and jailed. The police had caught up with him. For months he had been systematically stealing bricks, roof tiles, windows, doors, plumbing - everything but the foundations - from his employ- • ers' building itea, selecting al- ways the best. He had virtually stolen a whole house. He was sentenced to hard la- bour of another kind - twelve months - and the girl broke off their engagement. It's alinost itt- eredible what some folk will steal. Crooks in the United Stated once removed 150 miles of cop- per wire from the Michigan elec- tricity system, though a current of 200,000 volts was passing through at the time! Yet not one of the thieves was killed and no one was arrested. Only a crazy thief, surely would steal a fire engine. Yet someone broke into a village fire station i n Worcestershire at dead of night, some time ago, and drove away the .fire engine, complete with pump and ladders. Neither he nor the engine was ever traced, A .complete mile of railway track was removed from a Penn- sylvania branch line. The ripp- ed -up rails were cut up into small lengths and sold as junk. The thieves ,were also "cut up" when police tracked them down and arrested them as they were planning another raid on similar lines. Thieves at Miami stole a ten - ton steamroller. A burglar enter- ed a house et Charleston, Vir- ginia, and cut off Mrs. B. N. Hen- nigan's plaits while she slept. The reason for this astonishing theft has never been discovered, For Golfers - A Solid -Gold Putter! "Tiffany's Fourteen Kar a t Gold Putter," read an ad by New York's Fif t h Avenue jewelers recently. It offered golfers a club with a price tag -$1,475-as unwieldy as its 15 - ounce, solid gold head. But the small print carried a reserva- tion: "This advertisement ap- pears for the record only, as the entire stock has been sold," • In fact, Tiffany's "entire stock" had consisted of a single putter made to order fox a customer who wanted it for a gift. 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Covering the story in depth, the lensman not only snapped pretties Mary Jo Jones, ieft, and Sheila Finn in the photo above peering through the side of the french liner Liberte, He also got a behind -tile -scenes shot, below, of the 19 -year-old models who were returning to New York City from a four-month tour of Europe.