The times., 1898-01-12

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| from Dan Swisert. and Henry of Ma
| varre, bought by August Belmont from
| Byron McClelland at private sale foi
| q price said TO have been about $4,000
Not all of these-in fact, but few-actu-
| ally won in stakes and purses as much
money as they cost, but all were great
| race horses.
The buying of yearlings is lot
| terry Pierre Lorillard said some years
ago A famous English turfman went
further and described all race horses
| as casualty stock" Mr.. Lorillard's lot
terry idea has no better Illustration than
a comparison of the turf deeds Of Mo-
relic and King Thomas. Morello, bred
in Virginia, went into New York sales
ring yearling, and would have gone
out without a bid had not Mr.. boswell,
who brought him to the sale for a
neighbor, offered 800 for him. Mr..
boswell trained him and the next
spring offered him for sale. After much
dickering Morello was sold for $4,000,
and he proved to be not only the best
two-year-Old of his season. but the next
year was the kingpin three-year- in
the west. Morello won the Futurity
and S53 100 in his first season on the
turf. and added s2s,5 500 TO his earnings
next season.
King Thomas. on the fame his broth
ers. Ban Fox and King Fox, achieved.
was sold at public auction for SIS go to
L. o. Appleby. and the next day at pri-
vate sale went to the late Senator
George Hearst for $4,000 He proved
as bad as hi; brothers were good and
when the Hearst stable was disposed
Of va N n 4 FOJ-
81 co..
At the same sale, among other Illus
trious counterfeits, was transferred u
Fred. Gebhard for 81. 500 the two-year-
old Canvas, who turned out a compete
disappointment.
King Thomas was in tlaining three
years before he Won race. Then as a
fiye-year-old maiden, he somehow got
home first for $400 at Brighton Reach
and retired from the tuTf TO rest on his
laureIs. Aside from the $4,000 that his
f rfeits cost and about $1,000 training
expenses, King Thomas had returned
/ per cent, on the price Hearst paid for
him.
Another strong contrast is furnished
by the Keenes great horse, Domino.
and his unworthy brother, Swiftfoot.
"A d
two-year-oldh he won $191, 730. and racing
On as three and year-old swelIed
the total of his turf earnings to $2S4, $50.
The Keenes' experience was not ne:s
to the turf, however. The DWyers
when they raced together had any
quantity of the same form of misfol-
tune. They bought the seeming best
year after year and paid extravagant
prices for full brothers to great per-
formers. In one season they spent
$4,000 for yearlings, but got not one
good horse in the lot. But one season
while the fraternal firm raced were the
Dryers properly rewarded for their
output in yearlings, and then they de-
veloped not one. but two first-class race
horses. fremont and Hanover. Money
could hardly have bought fremont from
the brothers when the colt finished his
one season on the turf, and then the
fate that hangs over great horse:
stepped in and fremont broke down.
Next to King Thomas, the highest
priced yearling sold in America, was
the st. Blaise-Lady Primrose colt.
bought by Col. Jacob Rupert for $780,
900 at the Belmont SALE at the same
time that Charles Reed bought st.
Blaise for 100000. The Lady Primrose
was an unqualified failure and a fitting
ornament for phenomenally unfor-
tunate stable. Col. Rupert paid SIS
900 for Ajax, $4,000 for Dashing Belle
(renamed Sonora) and his other pur-
chases were of kind. He bought the
best on the market, but they would
not win for him. Once he seemed to
have things right. He bought two
colts, afterward known as Gotham and
Counter Tenor, for 900 each and in
the spring as twO-year-olds they were
pronounced the best in the East Col.
Rupert refused $4,000 for the pair,
and $4,000 would not have bought
them. They proved To be really only
fair horses, and the owner received a
disappointment that would have stop
ped many another mans racing for
ever, but Col. Rupert is still on the
turf and hopeful of getting a good
horse.