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THE
DAILY SHORT STORY
LONG SHOT
You hear all sorts of stories in the paddock at the Hialean race track. One that interested me tremendously Wad about the jockey al Ponsley, named Ivan Brown Peas.ey.
horses.
"O.K," he said finally. "Nothing wrong with a deal like that.”
So Al Peasley and I former a com- horses to A man bine. He gave me thres
Two of them told me about bot on the first day.
The next day I collected a $20.- I had met Brown a week won.
The third day we had met avery day 50 pay on a long shot. since, exchanging comments about the Peasley only suggested one horse and didn't come in. But I was de- races, about Florida's climate, about it
lighted. There was a lot of satisfac- "reasley," he said, "was about the tion in knowing that I, a greenhorn, one on these finest jockey who was over hoisted, had pulled such a fast
Dependable, You smart track-followers. into a saddle.
I A week passed. Peasley and could put your money on the. horse he: rode. You probably read what nar collected $38, which I split with him. Not bad, I thought, for some good en- pened to him last year."
"I'm tertainment. But I became cager. I I smiled in faint amusement. afraid you've taken me for much more wanted to win more, and urged Al to He did. of a horse fancier than I really am. figure out some long shots. The fact of the case is I've never been. The first won. interested in horses or racing. Down third lost.
It's the here in Florida it's different..
here ching to ao to visit Hialeah, 80 1 am
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The second lost. The The four. lost. That night, out at the Paddock Night Club, I saw a man who remind- ed me a lot of Al Peasley and it set That was the same me to, thinking, night, that I figured out how I stood with the ponies, The answer
I'd He rather startling:
won $118.50, half of which had gone to Peasley, and lost. $232, all of which I paid myself.
The next day I got hold of a cop and went up to Peasley and had him arrested.
Brown smiled back. "I'm not much better myself. I'd heard about Peasley, though. He was thrown last year. An
on him. other horse stopped didn't die, but when he got out of the hospital his nerves wore all shot.. The doctors said he'd never ride again."
"Tough. What became of him?" Brown nudged me and nodded to- ward the paddock rail. "There he is -now. ---- That little chap in the grey
suit."
He was a forlorn figure, this once famous Al Peasley. He stood alone
was
When they got him down to headquarters they washed his face, and there was the man I'd seen at the Paddock club-only there wasn't any I imprint of a horseshoe on his factures.
"The smart thing for you to do,”
By Stanley Cordell
by the paddock rall, looking wistfully, told him, "is to reimburse
me the
a
at the horses that were to run in the amount I've paid over for your phony next race. There was something tips. Otherwise I prosecution." about his face that instantly caught your eye the faint, red outline of With the..imprint of a horseshoe. Brown's story still fresh in my mind It seemed that the accident had hap- pened so recently that the scar was not yet healed, --
"On what charges?" said Peasley. "On charges of impersonating famous jockey named Al Peasley,' said smugly.
looked at the cops The man winked. "Did you ever hear of a Jockey named Al Peasley?" he asked.
The boys hadn't.
and
"And furthermore," said the man, As soon as I could politely do so I drifted away from Brown. An excit it don't think you'll find a Jockey by ing idea was taking form in my that name listed on the books. More- mind. I may have been a novice at over, you'll have a sweet time proving horse racing, but by Jove I still had that I ever even claimed to be a jockey. the sense I was born with and this "It must have been some other gent looked to me like an opportunity too who told you that story! He grinned. "What's good to pass up,
I began to have a chill. Peasley was still standing alone mor, went on this smug little runt, when I sauntered up to him and idly. "If you're smart you'll slip me a hun- won't passed the time of day. At first he dred, bucks for damages so I didn't answer; then I mentioned the prosecute you for having me falsely Saunter Home looked god to me in arrested.” the sixth, and didn't he think so?
He turned toward me than with a look that was at once scornful, and in- he said dulgent, "Sunter Home, quietly, "will barely be in the money, and then only if he's lucky." Which proved to be an accurate diagnosis, o the situation. And it was all I want- ed to know.
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