The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-04-03
BY Winning at Memphis, the Son
of Hanover Pleases His
Backers.
TERRA FIRMA GIVES PROMISE.
Abe Cahn's Bermuda Colts Race
Entities Him to COnsidera-
ton as a Derby
Possibility.

race az Memphis on Tuesday would Indicate
Derby pretensions. He won in a romp, SIX
furlongs in lis. as fast as they ever run
that distance at Memphis In the spring.
His 2-year-old form made him the best
youngster in the West last season up to the
time of his famous free disposal Of Jockey
Dominica and subsequent four-mile runa-
way. He even won a stake after that
calamity. but was supposed to have been
injured by his runaway.
When he went to Memphis in the early
winter he suffered from a severe attack of
pneumonia. This trouble is popularity sup
posed to end the greatness of any horse 1t
attacks.
When it became known that Abe Frank
suffered from 1t, sages shook their heads
and said: He Is through SO far as stake
form goes"
Though Tuesdays race has not yet won
a derby for Abe Frank. 1t will 40 a long
way to assure his supporters in future book
betting that he is a sound colt. and fast as
he ever was. He always could carry weight.
! Henry Mechanic is a good trainer and when
, the Bennett colt goes to the post in the
American Derby you may rest assured that
he will be Mt as a fiddle.
Another Derby pretender Of whom little
has been heard turned Up second to Abe
Ffrma- Though little had been said about
style and manners and he has a couple Of
fair races In his string. He was a sick
Calm did not get much usage Of him until
fall. Then he lost a couple Of races. through
bad riding. that Mr.. Calm was sure he
Troxler dropped a race or two with him
that he might not have lost, but Calm did
manage to land one with him and at very
of even temper. resolute in manner and APP
pearance. He is a remarkably wefl-con-
formed animal. especially about the head
and neck. His back and loins are made to
Terra Flrma is by Observation-Disclosures of
Navarro: She q sister to Henry Of Navarro.
OF him. rather than on anything he has
done. 1t may not be unreasonable to ex-
pect something beyond the average of him
in the st. Louis Derby.
If any horse was ever endowed with a
soul or spiritual nature that horse is Wax
In the Montgomery Handicap, printed in
The Republic of Wednesday very plainly
Maeinn. who is in from Little Rock. where
Captain Rice raced his stable last week.
says that the great horse is a sight indeed.
around his f~elt-lock joints said Mr.. Ma
ginn. The places where he was fired last
winter nave not grown any hair. and his
legs look like those of an old street-car
horse. who has just escaped a fire in the
barns"
Wax Taper never seems to run anything
but a herd luck race. He never gets the
best of anything. anywhere. at any time.
He ran them East and West last season.
If anything went wrong in a race he was
sure to fall a victim to the accident. Last
fall he was worn to skin and bone by the
rigors of a hard campaign that began at
and then transposed to the Eastern tracks.
then back again to St. Louis. When he
raced at he r'air Grounds in the fall he had
all possible bad luck. no matter by whom
he was ridden
He was always giving away coolies of
weight and running the race of his life
crow, his legs were so bad and he hobbiei
50 In his gallops that 1t seemed that some
spiritual power within 1t alone Kept the
thin and worn and abused "physicality" go
IN spite Of hard work; sore lega. weak
loins. bare ribs and bad luck he always
was contendinE for first place.
His dauntless spirit would not allow him
to tamely submit to ignominious defeat. He
was nn al%Sys trying s and 2. ,S bIwS Sss, thsrs,
horse, one Of the fastest and one Of the
%stoutest that ever carried a rider. A horse
with a worse disposition and his legs would
be pulling a dump-cart, for he would not
endure the pain of running on such inflrm
limbs Wax Taper's pluck allows him to
take those limbs and win stakes with them.
When his racing days are over he should
make a great sire of t~horoughbreds. But
his racing end is a long way off. as. that
is. II Captain Rice continues to own him.
san always races them until f'i they A are 10
years. old. and Wax Taper is only 6. So he |
prior to being trained for steeplechasss.
Starter Dade. after a most successful week
at Little Rock. is back in town. The tan
Kentuckian says the joyeys are not any
better than they were last season. but
adds, as usual; that good boys worry
when you have one or two good ones and a
lot Of bad ones to deal with. The good
ones try to take SO many advantages Of the
George Bennett and has that owners great |
stable at his command. bothered Mr.. Dade |
a great deal at Little Rock. He practically
field with Herodiade. This horse broke on
the outside and .Coburn. took him right
across the lot in his effort to get the good
much by his interference.
MI. Dade saws he let Coburn go unscathed
OF hne or punishment. as the meeting was
more of a holiday frolic than anything else. |
when We get down to: six months Of
will not look with lightness upon the Hber-
ties crack riders for big stables NAV try
to take with humber folks riding for small
Mr.. Dade Is entertaining his brother, Cap
tain Walter Dade, Medical Corps. U. s. 4.
Captain Dade is spending a furlough of
ton is I'm the Philippine Islands. He left
Kentucky some three years ago weighing
lU POUNDS ana returned weighing 1l9, all |
due to a Philippine fever. contracted. he
says. through gross carelessness.
They have horse racing in the Philippines.
Captain Dade says. The horses are much
like indian ponies. small and slow. and rid
den by big men as big Filipinos 60. Races
are run on narrow paths that 60 as tracks.
and the distances are seldom more than
half a mile. Betting Is very brisk. the ma
tional pastime being gambling on anything
and everything.
Il have seen chicken fights" said Captain
Dade, ION which thousands Of dollars have
been bet. You make your bet. and both you
and your opponent throw the proper amount
of money into the pit. You accept his word
that the amount is correct, and he takes
your word for it; When the fight is over
the winner steps into the pit and takes up
what he has won. Remember, he does not |
pick up the exact bills or coins he and his
opponent threw in. He simply goes in
among thousands of dollars and takes up
what is owing to him. He could take more,
II is true. yet I have never seen any man of
any nation betting there who took more
than what rightfully belonged to him."
Captain Dade speaks well of the Philip
pines as from a business and sporting point
of view. He thinks that It is a place where
an American with a bit of capital can make
a deal of money going or coming, sporting
or business. The principal objection to II
seems to be that n is too MANY milos ,r,v