The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-12-25
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Americas, formerly Rey de Caredes
Won G5-5 on the English turf this year
Armitage by .Surinam- paloma started
five times, but never finished inside the
money.
Charley Slaughter win not ride in
California after all. He found out that
he could not do himself justice, 50 Bar
ney Schneider paid the boy in full and
he left for mis- home in Texas yesterday.
Phil Dwyer, the celebrated turfman,
went to the dressing room OF Jimmy
Michael, the bicyciist, after the cycIist
had ridden a fiYe-mile exhibition at
Madison Square garden, and offered
him the position of head jockey in his
stable any time the midget wanted to 90
in training and fit himself for the task.
The DWyer stables are open to you
any time you see fit 10 accept the
charge the veteran said. i think
boy with your head and your Unborn
speed could infuse a mount with great
running powers
Michael said ii was his ambition some
day to ride horses and also to own them.
The two shook hands and Jimmy prom
ised to give Mr.. Dwyer the first chance
when he was ready.
The career Of keenan, ON the English
turf will illustrate the pertnence of our
remarks on the ineXpediency of sending
horses that have been trained and raced
on our circular and level tracks across
the Atlantic. ON this side the son OF
Lisbon was such good performer that
Mr.. Belmont gave no less than $lS,500
for him. so when he sent him to Eng
land he had great hopes that he would
be successful In some Of the big hanGi-
caps there. He commenced his foreign
we'll NV winning q fiVg-fIHripnEr
plate at Newmarket, but it may be
noted that the opposition on that occa-
sion was very weak. His next. and best,
performance was in the first week Of
June, when he ran the fair 4-year-old
Piety to q head for the Manchester cup;
distance. one and three quarters miles,
concedlng III pounds for the year be-
tween them, which was eight pounds
more than weight fer age.
The course on which this race was
run, however, is more like our Amer-
can tracks than any other in England
for ii is oval in shape, it's circumference
being just a mile and a half, with very
sharp turns. as n description of it shows,
for the stretches are LOO yards long.
leaving only a quarter of a mile to be
utilized for the turns ut either end. IT
Is also perfectly level, and being sit
uated III the heart or a big city. the
heritage on il, notwithstanding it re-
ceiveS every care and attention, is very
scanty
That its similarity to mis- native tracks
enabled Keenan, to make such good
showing over it Was amply proved the
following week, when he finished alb
solutely last in the Ascot stakes, dis
lance two miles, over a nearly straight
course, covered with thick and elastic
turf. and more or less UP hill and down
dale. In this race he met Piety at even
weights,s so should certainly on form
have finished in front Of the son OF
Safety. who obtained third place. only
beaten a length from the winner. But.
though heavily backed by his owner
and the rest of the American colony
Keenan, was outpaced from start to
finish. After disgracing himself in this
race he was laid by for the Cesarewitch
IN which ne was allotted the very fenient
weight for a 5-year-old of 103 pounds
l6 less than he had been asked to carry
at Ascot, There WAS lots of kicking by
English owners over the light weight
assigned him, but though he started sec
ond faVorite at the short price Of to
in field Of Is. the handicapped was
amply indicated. for he never showed
prominently, and was beaten hundred
yards at the finish. Two weeks later
Mr.. Iorillard'S S-year-old Sandia easily
ran away from him at even weights
over shorter course on the same
ground.
Disguised with these performances
MIR. Belmont then offered him To Lord
William Beresford. Mr.. Lorilard's rae
ing partner, for 81, 0oD. less than a fourth
of the price the president of the Ameri-
can Jockey club had originally paid for
him. Like all the Beresfords, Lord Will
iam is a Keen horse trader, SO at once
closed with the offer, proving his good
Judgment by nearly winning the horse
cut the first time of asking in the Man
chester November handicap. over the
same course to which he had shown
Partially in the summer In this race.
which was worth $4,000, he was ridden
by Ted Sloan and finished second 10 AS
teric, With n number Of good ones be-
hind him, among them a well-known
American performer Don Alonzo who.
though ! years old, had the lowest
weight for the IL competitors only 81
pounds. But il was not entirely with
view 81 winning this race that Lord
William bought keenan,, for ere it was
run the horses passage for India was
engaged, and less than IS hours after its
decision the son Of aPtrimony was on
ship board bound FOR the far East. Lord
BereSford raced and rode in India for
many years. so was astute enough to
see that over the sandy tracks of that
country the American bred one would
he just in his element. There he will run
for, and probably win. the valuable RAJ
iah Of Kolapore's Gun. which may be
termed the Indian Derby.-EXchange