The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-12-02
SUCCESSFUL TRAINERS RAPIDLY
ARRIVING AT SUCH CONCLUSIONS.
EXPERIENCE OF THOSE
NOW CHARTERED HERE.
MIR. HARRY SCHULTZ OF NEW
YORK DELIGHTED WITH THE
CLIMATE.

in Prime shape When He starts
Them in the spring-ReasOns Why
Horses Wintercd at New Orleans
Do Not Do So Well when They Re-
turn to the Eastern Tracks-Geers
and Sanders Among the Most
Prominent TO Recognize the Adj
vantages of Spending the Winter
Months Where Their Horses Can
Get Plenty of Out of Door ESer-
else.
That race horse owners are recog-
nizing the advantages of wintering
their horses in the South, is testified
to by the large increase in numbers
that come here each year. until now
nearly every track in the South has
a number of stables quartered there for
the winter.
The question has recently come up
among horsemen in New York as to
whether or not a horse was benefited
by spending the winter months in
Southern climes, and the answer of
those who have tried it are all in the
affirmative.
Mr.. Harry Schultz of New York.
who is wintering at the Savannah
track. said yesterday that he was pos
tive that if the big trainers around
New York knew what excellent facil-
tiles We're offered for the care and
treatment of horses in this section of
the country. that they would all pull
up stakes as soon as the Jamaica meet
ing was over and come to the South.
Il find" said Mr.. Schultz, that my
horses are in 25 per cent. better condi-
ton already than they would have
been if I had kept them up North
where it is so cold that they can bare
ly take walking exercise to say moth
ing of getting out on the track and
taking their regular morning trials
1T has been argued that horses that
attended the New Orleans meeting
each year, when returned to the North,
could not hold their own with the
horses that wintered there. This can
be very easily explained. The horses
that go to New Orleans race all the
winter and are hardly fit to go against
those who are started fresh, and have
done no real hard work during the
winter months. L expect my horses to
do much better during the spring
meetings, for | will be able to prepare
them gradually, and when they do
start they will be in excellent trim"
One of the trainers who has met with
a fair degree of success in wintering
horses south of the Mason Dixon line
is the New York trainer, r. L. (Bob)
Davis. An advocator of this section for
preparing horses said: Last spring
Trainer Davis brought a stable of thir-
teen horses to Columbia, S. c., where
he wintered, which he confined princi-
pally to the half-mile rings. In perus-
ing the record of his stable this year
we find that it shows a degree of sue
cess equaled by few trainers outside
of those who race through the Grand
Circuit where the purses are consid-
eTably larger, and does much to deter
mine the value OF that country for the
early training of light harness horses.
The aggregate amount won by
Davis horses reached a total of $12,-
900. What makes this record so eX-
Ceptional is that not a single member
of his stable had any pretense to class
that would warrant a trainer to ven
ture to the tracks where big purses are
raced for by high-class horses. Take,
for instance, Bernie, 2;13h trotting and
2:lSA pacing. This horse was sold a.
public sale for $3.50 last winter and
had a record of 2:24h pacing.
After starting him in few races
on a pace in the early spring, Davis
shifted him to a trot, and at both gaits
he won 1920. These horses began
racing at the first meetings in the ear
ly spring at Baltimore, and continued
through the entire season."
After this long campaigning season
the horses were sent to the Speedway
and have continued in good form, hav-
ing met and defeated a number of the
best horses which are in service on the
Harlem drive. To keep a stable of
horses in condition for such a length
of time-one years. the secret of the
success of any trainer; in fact there
are many who have failed in the at
tempt. A review of the money won
by the different horses of his string
is interesting. as the following will
show: