The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-03-04
Race rack and
Stable Gossip

The recent sale of Burns & Water
houses 2-year-old Yellow Tail for &c.,
900 to Fred Foster, the st. Louis horse
man, seems to be the sole topic of COM
ment in the California turf world just
at present. Foster has taken the Pa
cific coast metropolis by storm. He
landed there about the first of the year
with Abuse and DIR. Sheppard. Soon
after his arrival he started DR.. Shep-
pard in gentlemen riders race in or
der to accommodate Walter Hobart, the
young San Mateo millionaire, who was
anxious to pilot the winner of the
event. DR.. Sheppard with Hobart in
the saddle, captured the gentlemen RID
ers' race. Then, when Foster paid So,ooo
for Sam McKeever. it was said that ne
bought the horse for Hobart. After
wards, when Harry Hill. the big Aus
tralian plunger operating at the Frisco
tracks. won a $4,000 bet on DR.. Shep-
pard, they said he was behind Foster.
Turf Editor Bagley of the Bulletin
thinks Hill furnished the $4,000 for the
purchase of Yellow Tail, while Ralph
Tozier of the Examiner is responsible
for the following:
ut is just possible, however, that
Foster is acting for Otto G. Stifel, a
wealthy St. Louis brewer, who is re-
turning to the turf for pleasure and
glory. Several years ago Stifel was
partner of Schorr, the big Memphis
brewer in a stable known as the Gam
brnus stable. John Garcia did. the
training and the firm owned some pref
ty good racing material. Stifel grew
tired of the sport and the firm dis
solved. The success which Schorr has
attained lately has attracted Stifel, who
is now gathering together the nucleus
of a good racing stable"
yellow Tail, who has valuable stake
engagements, is by imp. Watercress.
dam imp. Poloma, and is, therefore,
half brother to Armitage and Miss
Rowena and other well-known per-
formers. Watercress is the English
horse that J. b. Haggin imported to
California. and is by Springfield son
of st. Adams, while his dam is Wharf
dale, by Hermit. Poloma, the dam of
Yellow Tail, is an Australian mare by
The Drummer, dam Canary, the dam of
Candid. winner of the four-mile race at
Ingleside.
Local horsemen find it hard to believe
that Burns & Waterhouse have really
sold Yellow Tail to the Foster Brothers,
but it is a fact nevertheless, and the
Fosters have the California 2-year-old
in their stable. yellow Tail is about the
best one that has showed out in the far
West thus far. and as Burns & Water
house are not the kind of people to let
SDbu one 20 WITHOUT StIllt lSlIN anu last
reason. the unbeief is but natural to
those who know the firm.
There is but one way of accounting
for the sale of what may be a crack
erjack horse, and that is that the big
California stable may have given up
the idea of racing in the East this sea-
son.
On the other hand, those who know
California and California 2-yearolds,
ott oh i'm, wv n the
sale except to say that for once the
Fosters have the worst of it. Caiifor-
MIA youngsters are proverb!aly for
ward. When 2-year-olds on this side
of the continent are barely able to go
a slow half mile, those California prod
igies are winning races with stake
weights up at five and six furlongs.
1t has rarely occurred that the flaeh-
in-the-pan youngsters that have come
early and won early in California have
been able to hold their own when put
up against the Eastern 2-year-olds