Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-07-16
VANDERBILT AS SPORT
WI.liam K. to Establish a Rac-
 ing Stud Farm.
HE HAS CAUGHT THE TURF FEVER.

The Multimi1Iionaire Has Become Elated
 Over the Success of His s5 PIunges In the Betting Ring and Now Wants String of NEW YORK, July 16.-Mr. William K. Vanderbilt, who has tried yachting and nearly every other form of amusement, is now going in for breeding and running race horses, according to morning paper. On Thursday last he telegraphed to a friend-a man who knows very nearly as much as any one else knows about the turf-asking the latter to meet him on board his yacht Valiant on Sunday on im= portant business. That business was Mr. Vanderbilt's new project. He confided it to his sporting friend with enthusiasm, and the millionaire's appearance as a rae ing man may be looked for shortly. The owner of the yacht Valiant has al- ways raken~an intense interest in horse races. He has been seen scores of times in the betting rings at the big tracks, mak- ing a circuit of the bookmakers, and fight ing his way among swarm of shopboys and Tenderloin district gamblers to the stand of the man who was giving odds a shade better than the other "bookies." He rarely bet moro than $5 at q time, but once in a great while he went as high as SEQ.
 After putting up his money MT. Van derbilt goes to some spot where he can see the race, and no desperate gambler risk ing his last cent ever looked so deeply in terested in the result of the run as he. De jection comes if he loses; exultation if he wins
 He Is A Lucky Bettor.
 He has been singularly lucky too. He avoids favorites and backs the longest kind of shots. Once he started in with SEQ, and by taking only the biggest odds in creased it to 8, 200 before he left the track.
 MT. Vanderbilt has certainly made money out of the turf. He owns large interest in the Coney Island Jockey club, which has been a perfect mint to its stock holders. Now he is going to embark in q new phase of sporting life Many know ing men arc skeptical as to the profitable owncrs!. p of horses by men who are not experts. They will watch the new career of MT. Vanderbilt with great interest.
 The millionaire has q theory that Amer ican thoroughbred mares and French thor oughbrcd sires will produce race of colts which it will be impossible to beat. He has bought q farm in France at which he will work out this idea. Now he is going into the market to secure the very best American mares that money will produce, and it was to intrust him with the con- mission to buy them that he sent for his friend to como aboard his palatial yacht. It is not likely that with Mir. Vanderbilt in the market good American thorough breds will decrease much in price,
 Astor Has a Racing Stud Too.
 Mir. Vanderbilt has never displayed a great knowledge of horses except fin his lucky bets 'Horsemen say that they do not believe he has any wonderful talent as n horse breeder. Nevertheless they look upon his entrance into the game" as significant, believing that it may start a movement among other large Crnsuses of the east. Very few of the owners of phc- nomenal fortunes possess racing studs. MT AStor, it is true, has started an estab- lishment which sends to market patches of very indifferent yearlings, but he stands almost alone in that respect
 George Gould had the racing stud fever few years ago, but his father cured him of it by calling his attention to moro inn portant business. Lately he has again dabblcd little in horses Mir. Belmont and MT. Lorillard, it is true, are great patrons of the turf; but, rich as they are, they are not in the Vanderbilt Crosus class referred to as having lot racing se- vcrely alone.
 The new auspices under which racing exists in this state, some think, may bring more men like Vanderbilt into the racing business. W. s. Hobart and Arthur White, son of Deacon White, arc quoted as ex- amples of aristocrats taking to the turf Richard Croker is not considered to be in this movement.
 Old Commodore Vanderbilt was an ex- cellent judge of trotting horse. and men who knew him said that if he had not had the ability to make money in other ways he might have accumulated fortune as a horse trader. The whole sporting world will be interested in finding out whether this faculty has been transmitted to Will liam k. Vanderbilt.