St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-03-08
THE LORILLARD SALE.
The Dwyer Brothers Take Four
of the Rest at S67,5OO.


At the last sale of the LOrillard thorough
breds the Dwyer Brothers bought four of
the best and highest, for the gross sum of
S67, 500, as follows: Dew Drop. S29, 600;
Pontiac, S17, 500; Winfred, Sl3, 900; Pom
tico. $4,000. This is an average of S16.-
SIS. In regard to this matter the Breeders
Gazette says:
There was one other they wanted, this
being Pontico, half brother to Pontiac,
and him they secured for $4,000. Last
summer, when Pontiac had won selling
race, the Dryers determined to make Mr..
Lorillard pay dearly if he retained the colt.
and amid the most tremendous excitement
the price was raised by successive bids to
SIS. 600, at which figure he was knocked
down to the owner. who promptly repu-
dated the transaction, however, on the
ground that he had not authorized bid
of over $1,000 in his interest. The matter
created great row at the time, Lorillard
telling the Dryers In pretty plain language
what he thought of them and their methods
on the turf. and was one of the causes
which led to the master of RancOcas retir-
ing altogether from a sport he loved so
well, and in furthering the interests of
which he had spent so much time and
money.
The Dryers then got the four best ones
in the Lorillard stable, paying for the quar-
tet a total of SCI, 500. This is an average
of SIG, S75, and when it is remembered that
up to the time of this sale SIT, 500 was the
highest price ever paid for race horse in
training, the magnitude Of the transaction
will be appreciated. Its significance is none
the less important. The question first and
most naturally asked is,
WHO ARE THESE DIVERS
that can afford to pay more for race horses
than anybody else considers them worth.
and that even outbid gentlemen of immense
fortunes? The answer is brief and com
prehensive one. The Dryers are profess
sional turfmen-men who have made all
their money on the turf. They do not race
horses for love of the sport. but use them
simply as machines with which to make
| money. That their success has been
wonderful everybody who has paid atten-
ton to turf matters during the last five
years well knows. Half dozen years ago
the Dryers were running butcher shop at
Brooklyn, and made their first venture on
the turf by the purchase OF Rhadamanthus.
horse that was supposed to have passed
his days of usefulness. Under their man
agement, however. the old black horse
seemed TO renew his youth, and won races
by the dozen for the Dryers, at last in
! creasing their bank account to such an ex-
tent that they were enabled to branch out
more extensively in the racing line, and the
greater their ventures the greater the sue
cess. The first big stroke in the purchas-
ing line was when they paid SIS, 900 for
HindoO the fall he was years old. They
won something like $40, 900 in stakes
with him the following season,
bagged some profitable game in the
cups the season he was 4, and
then sold him for more than they gave. he
being placed in the stud. Luke Blackburn
was perhaps their greatest gold mine. This
sou of Bonnie Scotland, not a successful
| performer as a two-year-old, was simply
invincible at three years of age, and some
of his performances will be spoken of with
admiration as long as there is a running
turf in any land. But to recount the luck
of the Dryers would be long job. 1t is
enough to say that in five years they have
accumulated fortune estimated at So, O0O,-
| 900, and to day they have in training nearly
forty horses. With the addition of those
purchased at the Lorillard sale their string
will be, without exception, the most for
midable ever seen in this country; and hav-
ing the best lot Of horses in the land they
are morally certain TO win large share of
the stakes and purses offered.