The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-08-23

track.
1t was not known, therefore, until the
spring whether the horse would ever
be OF Use again as racer. The veterina-
ries, however, said that he would and Mr.
Haggln had infinite faith in his horse doc
tors. Therefore, he nominated the colt
FOR the rich stakes Of this year, and awaited
the result.
At the beginning of this years training
season, Joyner worked Waterboy with
the greatest possible care. A little work
at first, then little more until, finally, the
mile.
So far as Joyner could see. there was no,
flaw in the colt S action. When the sea-
son had sufficiently advanced, and the
horse had. seemingly, improved every
day, he was sent along at something like
half speed
Then. for the first time. Waterbov showed
the fire of the real Thoroughbred He
scenic to realize that day that he vas out
for business and the only fault appal emily,
he had to find was that he was not allowed
10 attend to it in his own way. No sooner
had HI broken away from the post than he
fought like wild horse for his head
Then it was that all doubts as to whether
or not the horse would be able to race again
were dissipated. Then it was that Joyner
realized that he bad, indeed, n racehorse,
From that day on Waterboy steadily
improved until, in the opinion OF many, he
became the equal, if not the superior. of
the greatest thoioughbreds the American
turf ever knew. 1t is said that the case Of
Waterboy is the first on record in this
country where n thoroughbred left with a
broken stife bono ever raced again
One of the topics of the week over whic h
the tongues Of the gossips have been wag
ging relates to the alleged heavy losses at
The track of New Yorker of financial and
social prominence. He is interested in the
horses as he likes, he likes heap. as the
folk from the Southland say. Last
Tuesday he fancied particular hors" in
the Merchants and Citizens Stakes and,
according TO common report, backed him
to the extent Of $4,000
On Thursday, when the track was fetlock
deep in mud, this man picked out Leonora
IIoring from the Whitney stable to win the
first race. SO certain was he that the
beautiful daughter Of DR.. Mac Bride would
win that, according TO a man who comes
pretty near To knowing what goes on in the
betting ring, he sent down from the club
house commission of $50 900, 10 be placed
at the best possible odds on the tillv,
Not only did Leonora Loring not win,
but she finished absolutely last After
the race, a man who is regarded as perhaps
one OF the best sellers of thoroughbreds
on the American turf said, in speaking of
the particular commission sent into the
! ring on the Whitney filly:
My, but Mr.. Blank has been hard hit at
! this meeting. II seems like he couldn't
win a race. If had all above Sl0O,OO
which he has lost at this meeting. I'd give
all the thoroughbreds own TO some chart
table institution in Saratoga and quit the
turf with enough dough to keep me in com
, parative luxury for the rest of my life.
One Of the recent arrivals at the United
! States Hotel is W. Burke-Roche who, until
the divorce courts interviewed at his wife Q
, request, was the son-in-law of Frank Work.
: II was not so many years ago that Mr..
i Burke-Roche and MIR. Work had slight dis
agreement over who should pay some in
sistent persons who said, probably without
any justification whatever, that they were
Mr.. Burke-Roche's creditors.
But time has changed conditions. Mr..
\ Burke Roche has now become a very active
Irish American financier. All of the debts
which made him fashionable have been
paid and he is now Just plain, ordinary
man OF means, and the money came from
| Texas.
A year or more ago he secured options
| on some Texas oil wells near Beaumont.
| Former Governor and former Trust Buster
Hogg was interested in the properties,
| BurkeRoche suggested that Hogg make
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| ing British capital in the Texas oil wells
| The visit was made, but. according to Burke
Roche's friends, was not altogether sue
| cessful.
| Gov. Hogg's friends and neighbors know
the reason for the i'll success of the Gov
| ernor's visit to Britain and they point to it
| with pride II was all because the Gov
ernor refused to disclose the Iell beauty of
| himself by donning knickerbockers for a
| presentation at court
But there were others in America be-
| sides Gov. Hogg. and Bur ke-Roche knew
| it. He finally succeeded in interesting John
w. Gates, John A. Drake and others of the
| Chicago crowd in properties in Texas upon
| which he held options, and they took the
| options off his hands. Friends of Burke
Roche's here say that he cleared up some
thing like sl5O,OOO on the transaction
Col. William H. Rowe Of Troy, Saratoga
Huntsville, Ala, and other parts of the
United States where it is possible to es-
| tablish profitable knitting mills, is SPEND
| ing the season here with his young wife
| who as Miss Marian Richardson was, a
( few years ago, one of the bellies of Louis
vile, Ky. Col. Rowe got his military title
through the fact that he was an Assistant
| General of the National
| Guard Of the State of New York by appoint
ment of Gov. Flower.
The Governor offered this part ocular
appointment to Col. Rowe because he had
the reputation OF being the finest dinner
giver in northern New York. Gov. Flower
concluded that any man who could feed
himself and his friends we'll and run a
series OF knitting mills besides, ought to
make a useful Assistant Quartermaster-
General of the National Guard. SO we'll
did Col. Rowe perform his duties that Gov.
Flower told him once that some day he
would be Governor.
Col Rowe, like every other member Of
Gov. Flowers staff, believed all that his
chief said. Somebody at Huntsville, Ala
where the Colonel has recently established
new knitting mill started the Rowe guber-
material boom this spring Col. Rowe's
friends believe that he would make Just
as good a Governor of the State of Ala
bama as he would of the State of New York
and the Colonel isn't very particular as to
which State he serves.
He is in the hands of his friends, and
between races every day he takes a lesson
in machine politics from the Hon. Timothy
Dry-Dolar Sullivan and the Hon. William
Hepburn Russell Big Tim acts AS tutor
on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays,
and the Hon. William Hep. on Tuesdays,
Thursdays and Saturdays.
On Sundays Col Rowe takes day off
TO survey the future and it's prospects.
He has already picked out several members
of his staff.
Should he he elected Governor Of Ala
hama. United States Senator Morgan is TO
he made Adjutant- General of the National
Guard of the State. Should he be called
upon to serve the people of New York.
either the Hon. Edward NJ. Shepard or
George Foster Peabody will succeed Major
Con Roe mo relation to the Colonel as