The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-11-01
The Victory of Yankee.

| Ine lne CoInpSllllol of the multi -milionaires to focus. Some | of the wealthy aspirants to turf honors | did not make a bid, such as J. E. Widener and Thomas w. Lawson, who have so | far confiened their attention principally
 to jumping events, though Ten Candles
 won the Ocean Handicap at the Sheeps- | head Bay fall meeting and some other events for the former.
 l Mir. Whitney had set a tremendous pace l in buying Nasturtium. The exact amount | he disbursed for the big son of Water cress has never been made public. but 1t | is generally understood that what A. l.. | Aste. the clever young Italian, who laid | the foundations of a fortune as shoe black in New York, received was $50, 000 As things had befallen, when who want ed to beat Nasturtium were practically | forced to turn to John F. Madden for a horse with which to do it.
 From Madden then Clarence Mackay. after ''nibblingi for a considerable period, | bought Heno, and to the same man Perry Belmont had to turn before he could get Flywheel. The prices again have never | been made public, but 1t Is a sure thing that they were steep. Probably MT. Mackay paid fully $30.0O0 for Heno and MT. Belmont $25.000 for Flywheel. Neither ran anywhere in the Futurity. and Heno was actually last though he subsequent
 
 capturing the Dash Stakes.
 The irony of fate came in when Yan- kee, in Madden's colors, won the big race. Of course, MT. Whitney was the prin- cipal partner but even if the public had heard this, 1t was one of those things that are sure to be ignored. Madden was given the name of having made so slick deal as to have sold two horses to win the race and then beaten them both with he had retained whereas in actual | fact. the circumstances were none of his choosing.
 The season began with great deal of | excitement over the spring handicaps, sO- called. though actually the last of this | series is not run until July in spite of the | weights having been allotted in February | It was typical of the entire season and
 the era in racing that all these four | events fell to millionaires. Banastar cap
 tured the Metrouolitan for MT. Mackay, | Alcedo the Suburban for Louis " Bell,
 while James R. Keene gets some conso-
 lation for the i'll luck that subsequently, | befell the white blue spots" from the
 fact that after Conroy had won the
 Brooklyn handicap for him, the Brighton | handicap fell unexpectedly to his 4-year- | old Teddy.
 l from sporting standpoint, was that of l Conroy.
 There was nothing very remarkable | about Alcedo's Suburban, except the mar | vicious improvement in form that he showed over his immediately preceding | races.
 Among the millionaires, James R. Keene l and his son and partner. Foxhall r. | Keene, have assuredly had the bad luck | of the year. When Commando won the | Belmont in the spring at Morris Park and
 made tbe Withers winner, The Parader. look like a hack horse, 1t would have | been a bold man who prOUhesied for the big son of Domino anything else but an l illustricus Swear old career and Nhen he | roping' Blues in the Carlton at Graves
 end. 1t looked a practical certainty that
 he would annex the rich Realization. | But before that big 3-year-od event | was run at She2pshead Bay the colt had | shown symptoms of being amiss ill his
 feet and ran in bar-plates and with his | foTefeet strapped. The Parader beat him | easily, but even then no one dreamed that | Mir. Keene's colt had reached the limit of his racing career. But so it was-a 1 bowed tendon fell to his share in the | fall and Comma ndo has gone to the
 stud, nor is it likely that any further | attempt will be made to train him | Running over the record of the more | important stake events from the open ing of Morris Park spring meeting to the
 end of the Sheepshead Bay fall meeting | 1t will be found that about siXty-eight
 events of importance were won by horses | owned by millionGires. There were few | of these hgh-class races left for the
 rank and file of the owners, and most | of these went to horses owned by men 1 such as Frank Farrell, who are a very | long way from being paupers. l MT. Whitneys own colOrs did not star l to any great extent In the early part of | the season. though Blue Girl helped him | to bear his lot with her victories in the Juvenile, Eclipse, Great American and