The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-11-04
CAREER OF GOOD JUMPER
sTEEPLEcHAsER WAS TAKEN FOR
A DEBT Or $3.50 LOST
AT POKER
HARRY SMITHS GREAT HoRs
Owner of ''rhe CAD, Sold Him and
Bought Him hack Again
at a. higher
Price.

ne Ndu, Win whom Harry w. Smith,
OF worcester, won the national steeple-
chase championships and a S9,713 stake at
Norris park. on Saturday, Oct. 6, became
Mr.. Smiths property as the result of a
Soclabfe game of cards. Today Mr.
smith refuses to place price upon the
steeplechaser, and has refused a bona
tide offer of $4,000 made for the horse by
representative of w. c. Whitney.
While in New York one evening in the
fail OF 1857, Mr.. Smith, after dinner, with
few friends, sat down to an hours ses.
sion of the give me three cards game,
and when the party broke up and the
profits and losses of the hour were fig
ured up J. S. Wadsworth, of Genesee,
was indebted to Mr.. Smith to the extent
Of $3.50.
1t was Mr. Wadsworth's own PROPOSE
ton that instead of paying over the
money he should permit Mr.. Smith to
have his choice of any one of ten two
year-old thoroughbreds quartered in the
Wadsworth Raddocks. Mr. Smith readily
assented to the bargain, and the next
day went out and looked over the stock
His experienced eye told him that an I'm.
named grandson of Lexington was the
most promising of the lot. He had the
horse shipped TO his Grafton farm, and
the sequel to the story of the little game
of cards was written at Morris park.
81 selected The Cad In preference to
any of the Others said Mr.. Smith re.
/ Gently, because of his breeding and
combination Mr.. Smith is not a stick.
Ter fer breeding at the expense of indi-
viduahty, as are many less successful
horsemen. But he did not deem it advis-
able to pass over a grandson of gallant
old Lexington, the fcur-mile champion
of many years ago. Subsequent events
have shown the accuracy Of his judg-
ment.
The Cad was sired by Uncas, who in
turn claimed for his sire old Lexington,
whose blood courses through the veins
of many of the stoutest hearted perform
ers of the track and turf of today. The
Cabs dam was a mare called Farasol,
and she inherited good qualities from heI
sire, Mortimer, an English thoroughbred,
noted on the running tracks of England
for his gameness. The Cad is g bay
gel5ing, and now that he mas reached
maturity STANDS 15.Ss hands and girths s
feet, with large, deep muscles, so essen
tiaI in the successful ssteeplecheser.
WINNING THE CHAMPIONSHIP.
In Sky High, King 1T, Sweetbriar and
others of his horses, Mr. Smith has had
many successful performers on the Turf
or in the prize ring, but none has brought
him into greater prominence than The
Cad Equally true 1t is that no horse
Mr.. Smith ever rode has caused him so
much pain and physical suffering. AT
the Myopia club meet last spring The
Cad fell at the third hurdle, throwing his
owner and rendering him unconscious fol
half an hour. Last summer, after recoy-
ering from his fall at the Myopia grounds
Mr. Smith was again thrown frem The
Cad in a Saratoga race, and was urcon
scious for an hour. In his championships
race at Morris park The Cad jumped true
and strong, and brought his owner TO IL e
finish uninjured and worth more by 81, lf2
than when the start was made During
the running of the race, too,rzThe Cad's
own Vafue appreciated in the eyes OF
turfTnen from a few hundredoto several
Thousand dollars
Mr.. Smith really had no intention of
riding The Cad in the race, for he had
George Keene as well as The Cad enter
ed in the stakes. He had planned to ride
George Keene himself and to secure a
professional for The Cabs mount. While
schooling Keene over the course a few
days before the race he cut a quarter,
and had to be drawn from the list of
starters This left The Cad an additional
entry at the final closing of the stakes,
Aug Is, Mr.. Smiths only starter. Against
the wishes of his friends who feared an
other and perhaps more serious accident
might befall him if he attempted to ride
The Cad, Mr.. Smith rode the horse HIM
sell. Inc result Is now d matter Oh IutL
history. Against six of the best Jockeys
in the country, all of them working for
horsemen who count their wealth by the
millions, Mr.. Smith not only won, but
displayed superior hersemanship. He
was personally congratulated by August
Belmont. one of the judges, after the
race, and since then has been receiving
congratulatory kilograms and letters
from turfmen all oyer the country.
The Cad was not asked to show his
ability for year after becoming Mr.
Smiths property. He was turned out on
Mr.. Smiths farm and allowed to nibble
the grass of Grafton pastures and to
drink the water pfFjts running brooks
In the fall of 1S9SSSfr. Smith shipped The
Cad down to the, Myopia ground to be
taught to hunt, Mr.. Smiths original In
tention being to develop him for hunting
purposes. The CABS owner rarely found
time to go down ito school the gelding,
and the result was that he was hunted
only once that fall He was wintered in
Boston, but sent to Worcester in the
spring of 1899 withzsthe horses that Mr.
Smith had won blue ribbons with at the
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