The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-07-01
NEW TRAINING SYSTEM
PROVES SUCCESSFUL.
BELIEVE IN ALLOWING THOR
OCGHBftEDS TO BECOME
TRACK sORE-HE DRIVES
HIS RACERS TO CARTS
AND LIGHT HARNESS
RIGS.

| Doctor II. E. Rowell Is putting his string
| Of thoroughbreds. now stabbed at the Fair
| Grounds. through q course Of training that
| may seem strange to many. yet II Is true
| that the doctor has been very successful
| with his particular system OF preparing his
| horses for the track He never lets eny OF
his thoroughbreds go on a rack unless to
| race He Is thorough believer in track
soreness or sickness, which Is admitted
often sours or stales a good thoroughbred.
Every racer In Doctor Rowelvs string Is
broken TO harness. and Of late Il is no COM
mon sight to zee the doctor driving I'M
perious. the winner OF the $4,000 Burns
Handicap: Malay and others Of his string
along our streets, In and gu: OF the parks
and cemeteries. hitched to a driving cart
or buggy. Tho course - preparation adapt
ed BY the doctor has been -emarkabiy suo-
cessfui. especially with Imperious This s.
year-oid gelding. son Of Morcllo and
Helen Scratch. has been such an unreliable
creature that such noted turfmsn as Barney
Schneider and Pa, Dunno have cast him
on. Pat Dunno has a reputation OF being
the prince of trainers In the West. yet he
was unable to DO anything with Imper.ous
and passed him up
When Doctor Rowell took the animal IN
care he tried his new system. and although
he had hard time breaking him to har-
Eess. he at last succeeded. and after trot-
ting. pacing and running Impertous
through Golden Gate Park. and the white
sands on the beach below the Clir House
in San Francisco. he started him In the
Burns Handicap and landed the $l00O
stake with the despised cast-on.
Independent Of his win OF the Burns Han:
dtcap, imperiouS has won other races. ana
been In the money al least eleven times this
year. This record alone speaks very highly
for the doctors system His other horses
run very consistent, and the doctor freeiy
etates that the secret Of his success les |
Ia the fact that he never allows charge |
to sour at the track or become sore from
the continual ding-dong OF routine training.
Many have wondered why Duke Of Baden
has not started since his out 10 the IN
cut himself 50 badly In that out that be
will never be able to race again The good
son Of Duke Of Montrose and Babette mas
farm at stIwater. MIMI, where he will DO
service.
Algol. Messrs Dardsn & Ryan's good
stake winner. is on the market for 'tHd
purposes. Algol will never race again He
probably was the best get Of Top Gallant.
his his a-year-old form he was a world heater
and bears a record to be proud Of. but Pc |
he rounded to. and was acknowledged to
be the best stake horse in the and
Leander Richardson. the theatrical critic ss:
stories OF tho biggest bet made around
New York this year:
what il said to have been the biggest
bet OF the year upon any single horse roee.
in this Part OF the ,S a1 Lay
track, and. what is more. 1t wasn't the
wager Of any Of the wel!-known piungers.
The bet was made by a. millionaire from
managing and multiplying his fortune. crts
q big swath In State and national poitics
'Mr McEwen has long been q personal
friend of ono OF the well-known oookmakerS
doing business on Eastern tracks and Ls
came sauntering along on Monday, just be-
fore the jumping race. with piunper OF
g co upon Doctor Eichberg to win The
took the bet at the same t!r'le
telling hts friend he had selected the best
horse In the race at that sort OF going
.'The Western capitalist went away, and
In about fifteen minutes returned. asking
to have the bet taken OF and transferred
to Hardy Pardee. The oookinaker de-
not on the ground that II would up
as he said. he desired his friend to win.
Well, then, observed Mr.. McEwen.
pleasantly enough, II you won't take OF
the other bet. I'll Just make you another
Of 900 on Hardy Pardee.'
The proposition was accepted, and when
from the far West had saoo0 hanging upon
the outcome OF the event.
After the finish the bookmaker had
good hearty laugh at his old associate. for.
as everybody knows. Doctor Eichberg mere
~ fioated to victory at a very short price.
Mr.. McEwen's desire 10 shift from Eicn-
berg to Pardee was due to the earnest sole
ltation OF an acquaintance who had heard
thing-a common enough upset upon the
fringe OF the betting crowd"