The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-03-31
COOK TALKS about
HIS RACE HORSES.
He Expects to Win the Inaugural
With Tayon-Declined an Of
fer for Dominick.

Fred Cook. the ST. Louis bookmaker and
horse owner, will hang out his slate and
race his horses at the Memphis meeting.
He will so south Sunday night and his ex-
tensive racing stable will be shipped from
San Francisco to Memphis this week. Cook
has fourteen horses in training. Jockey
Eddie Dominick, the premier lightweight
rider of the West. is under contract to
Cook. W. E. Phillips and Frank Lewis
are training Cooks horses. Cook owns
John a. Morris. Tayon, Great Bend, Her
moso, The Monk, HaYiland, st. Wood. John
Baker. Campus. Helene Dare. Thornton,
Small Jack, The Bobby and Odnor.
II expected to win the $1,000 Burns
Handicap with The Monk. but he was al
ways hitting himself in his races" says
Cook. For a long while my trainer didn't
know what to do with the horse, but finally
some one suggested a new boot that worked
like a charm when given a trial. Since
We have been using this boot on II
Monk he has been moving fine. He ought
to maxi a great horse the coming season.
The Monk is the horse that beat all the
best s-year-olds at Memphis last spring in
Monk, Odnor, and st. Wood from T.. P.
Hayes. St. Wood was about the best bread
winner in my stable on the Coast. He won
three straight races at Oakland and was
simply invincible in his class for a while.
John 7. a; a., Morris is going 5000 again; land
s Mafe is IS gets g ho %rner IN thy T Wast / fa aSne en shlsh
to beat him once around the ring. He
struck himself in a race last fall and my
trainer ira advis ed me t, to lay hi. him ! up during g
race winter and summer. He went through
a hard campaign last summer and /
winter. He is a better horse right now than
he ever was. He will receive a special
prep for the St; Louis Inaugural. Barney
Schrieber. who bred Tayon, tells me that
he has a half-brother to this horse by
his successful young sire. Imp. Sain. chat
is going to send Bannoclsburn and the pick
of his 2-year-olds East this season.
81 bought a pair of promising 3 year ODDS
while on the coast. One of them is a brown
colt called Thorn1gn; by imported Trentola
filly called Helen Dare. by Dare-Mary f.
Both were bred in California. Thornton's
sire, imported Trentoia, is an australian
horse that c. L. Fair raced at the Fair
Grounds in the early nineties. Dare and
Ilooagate we're Mr.; Fairs candidates for
but ] don't think that either went to the
post in the big event
Great Bend broke down in a race"
continued Cook, but / have fired his bad
leg and my trainer says the horse will prob
ably race again. Great Bend is beautifully
bred, being by st. Blaise-Susquehanna, the
dam of the Futurity winner. Potomac. and
other noted thoroughbreds. I have a great
horse in The Bobby. He is a wonder when
it comes to racing over a distance OF
ton Stakes. the great four-miIe race at
Oakland. Haviland Is one of by best bread
winners. 1 bought him at Frisco. He was
q good horse on the st. Louis tracks last
season.
Jockey Dominick's contract is not for
sale" continued Cook. 4 was offered $2o;-
OO for this boy at Frisco. You may think
this is a pipe story. but John Coleman. the
~welI-known bookmaker. is the party that
made the offer. Barney Schneider got si0,-
600 for his contract on Jockey Buchanan,
and I think Dominick is worth three
Buchanans. / shall divide my stable up be-
tween Chicago and 81. Louis the coming
season."