New-York tribune., 1900-10-14
GIVES HIS TRAINER THE CREDIT.
MR. DRAKE ATTRIBUTES HIS SUCCESS ON
THE ENGLISH TURF TO WISHARD.

MR.. DRAKE ATTRIBUTES HIS SUCCESS ON
THE ENGLISH TURF TO wIsHARD.
London, Oct 8-John Drake of Chicago whose
winnings both in stakes and prizes have been the
talk of the English racing season (and who owns
Royal Flush the American bred and trained horse
which. with American Jockey up. Is to the
English bred and trained horse Eager, with an
English Jockey In the saddle. on October 81,
the Hurst Club course) returns to America this
month only richer by many thousand pounds
than when he to this country but firm in
the conviction that he has had the best summers
outing that he has enjoyed in years.
If the English turfmen and turf followers mar
yelled at the phenomenal success OF Tod" Soans
first season here a jockey, they have been quite
much surprised at the wonderful achievements
accomplished by Mr.. brakes stable. Horses that
one day would not bring enough money under the
hammer to pay months keep have turned up
month or less later under brakes coors and
carried off prizes betting odds that have made
Mr.. Drake fortune. The curious thing about 1t
all is that these same selling platers" have time
after time been sold away from him at handsome
prices only TO to their former bad form, and
prove ruinOus investments for their owners.
II is wonder therefore. that tOuts and trainers
and fashionable folk about the paddocks at Ascot
and Newmarket have openly declared that Enoch
Wshard, the trainer of brakes horses used cleo
tric srthstraps carried electric batteries under his
saddles and did all sorts of weird and uncanny
things to accomplish these wonderful results. Mr.
Drake tells many funny stories of conversations
concerning Wishard's methods. He has the great
admiration for his successful American trainer.
When Mr.. Drake asked for his
PLANTATION of his seasons success, he said:
II have achieved anything wonderful over here
me oy %sy q a there oEe rs little II m cred @ @ due @ to
n need have any reason to attribute his sue
fectly obvious, absolutely plain. 1t is simply due
to scientific training combined with the hardest
best veterinary surgeon ever saw. He is the best
horses as mother might watch child When
one Of his horses starts In race Wshard has his
great judge of pace; and he learns at once just
and the latter is sometimes quite as Important as
Splinter to win six d DAY Madison soaare wakne
match You should spend day with Wishard
takes better care Of the FEET of one Of these horses
than many trainers give to the whole stable.
Mr.. Drake is going home this month because he
feels that his business interests in America
important to leave alone during the final days of
Presidential campaign. Il would give anything"
said he. ito be able stay here and the match
I have arranged for October % between my horse
Royal Flush and L. Neumanns Eager, but racing
| is, after ALL only a recreation, and I feel that |
| cannot AFFORD TO stay longer. To have four
! teen with fourteen entries Is quite enough
| glory for one season, am sure. OF course. some
Of these horses were entered more than once. but
| every entry the race and 1t is a record that
| Englshmen tell me has never been equalled the
| turf
! talking about. l don't know myself. 1 placed a
| racing fund In Wishard's hands of &5OO0O, and
! pay him q per cent of the winnings besides his
salary. which is about the same percentage of
| the capital good many persons have tried to get
| him away from me. but he seems satisfied 10 stay.
and 1 sure 1 satisfied to have him
! Are the Reiffs 70 ride for you next season.
mo. They still under contract with for
the rest of this season. but they $4,000 for
| next year. and am inclined to believe that that
| Is little more than even the Reiffs worth
| wonders they L cannot but believe that
expensive next Season than this Want ana good
boy. and have my eye on one or two who l believe
be a great ,E1 influx Of american riders Nj Keene
Colby at Newmarket much Increased cas-
| How about the American style of riding?"
There can be no longer any doubt as to the
! based on scientific principles, which any student
! person knows that the long strides made bv y
horse are accomplished by his hind quarters and
ward where the horse is best able to carry it, and
the same time. do not believe American Jockeys
& Dsp be m qa 0 o6dT of tfG EngsR turf
men 40 not IKE the iqea OF seeing English Jockeys
jockeys winning races No one but these boys
then ca + know how many
| American jockeys and trainers, and I believe you
| as to handicap the American jockey out of all
chance of success. Ny advice 10 American Jockeys
the I harvest while Il is yet ripe. 1 do not believe
Who has won the money on the English
| turf this year,"
! Il presume the Prince of Wales has won the
| greatest amount of stake money. Diamond Jubilee
| alone won him 100000 $4,000 and is certainly
a great horse, but / would be glad match him
| saw him the day he beaten by Disguise II and
| much worse performer ] never saw. They could
| not get him out OF the paddock without tearing
| down a gate that had not been opened for twenty
years, and they would not have done that for any
| one but the Prince.
NO have no entry for the Derby next year, be-
| cause have no horse of the proper age But
| hope the day VIII not be far distant when an
| American will again carry OFF the blue ribbon OF
| the turf
What differences do find between the English
| and American turf2'
! We'll there is doubt that the English turf Is
| managed and conducted a much higher plane
| than the American racing tracks are The turf
| is much national institution in some WAYS as
the Church OF England or the House of Commons
| The Jockey Club is honorable a body as the
| House of Lords or the Bank Of England Racing
| Westminster, whose Flying Fox a kings ran
som in stakes last year. probably never bet &5 on
| him, and the Princess of Wales's Stakes which
I Flying Fox won, the Duke gave to the Princess's
| charity fund. That is the chief distinction
| think, between u.s..
| goers turning their attention the match AZ
! Hurst Park between Eager and Royal Flush The
| fact that Hurst Park has added an historic Ascot
| gold cup valued at e10O0 to the stake of e5OO a
| side lends additional interest to <Se race. Mr.
| Drake said to-day:
1 / am taking to America eight English cups. in
| cluong the Prince OF Wales's, Doncaster, Royal