The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-04-12

OF these two hlIies can give ten pounds
and a beating TO any y the likely starters
in the stake
John ". Schorr. who won the oaks last
spring with Flora Pomona, will not lie
represented in the stake this year. Eva
Russell. the SchOrr candidate Tor the oaks.
struck herself recently and could not te
prepared for the stake. George Walker
thinks awfuIly well Of this fIly. Eva Rus
sell will be taken East with the pick II
the Schorr stable at the conclusion Of he
Memphis meeting.
pullman. the Schorr jockey. has been en-
gagged 10 ride Sarah Maxim in the OAKS.
This FLY has started twice at Memphis.
She ran unplaCed in her first race ana nh-
ished third TO F1Ocarline and Avoid ths
next time out. FlOCarline won easily. but
Avoid Just did last long enough 10 beat
Sarah Maxim. Tn race WIS at seven iuI-
Avoid is also an Oaks candidate. She
belongs te Dan HONG uf 81. Louis and IS
in cbsrse Of LEV Calm, who trained Crock
Ell when she won the Kentucky Oaks. ASoiS
il a much better looking mare than SaIah
Maxim. She was pumped out CHASING RIO
csrIine the day hat Sarah Maxim gave her
such a close argument for the place.
|. The seasoned New Orleans fily, sweet
IN the oaks. Jockey Wonderly has been
engaged TO ride this rlly in the stake biiIE
KarriCk trains Sweet Alice. %hich sinS
properly oI
0leiant Is another prominent candidate
for the Oaks. Albert Franklin Is lining
defiant. This mare won the Junior Cham-
pionship Stakes at st. Louis in her 2-year-
old form. She was easily the best --year-
old hlly developed At 81 Louis laSt spring
Franklin won races with her In the FAST
Oleiant has never started as a S-year-olu.
She mas plenty of speed. but may oalk when
it comes to packing her weight over a mile
The other eiigibies to the Oaks don't call
for much. George Bennett has three miles
eligible TO start. Aylmer Bruce Is prooaoIS
The hes, of the trio. She was highly tried
last Surfing. but went wrong after running
one race. and was never trained again as a
:-year-old.
The stake would nave doubtless proven a
cake walk" for Barney Schreibers crack
hlly G~eheimness had she trained this sprine-
Schneider has experienced lots OF adversely
in his turf career. but he admits that he
was never so discouraged as ne mas pen
Rock Inspecting his stable, and found that
catarrhal fever had made complete wrecks
of nearly all his good horses. Gehsimness
is said 10 be only a shadow Of her former
self.
Upon his return from Little Rock Schrei-
Der received the additional information that
three of the best-looking suckiings foaled
at Woodlands this spring had just died Two
of the dead colts were sired by sam Inc
three were out Of the dams Of such good
performers as Geheimness. Zirl and sylvia
Talbot.
In a conversation the other night schrei-
Der stated that he made $500 booking AT
San Francisco and spent II all feeding ms
race horses.
lake Markelin Is a pretty smooth Gus,
TONER. Jake IS q graduate OF Cincinnati
ward politics, and always held a political
Of t~horoughbreds. Markelin has a string OF
Juveniles at Montgomery Park, and he don't
believe in letting any Of them win until he
has his own checks down at a long price
During the FIRST week OF the meeting JAKE
started a flly by St. MaIim-Philopens.
called Miss F1eischman. This y~oungster was
bred by Mayor Julius Freshman OF Gin
cinnati. whose father raced both sire and
dam. The fact that the FLY was named in
honor OF some feminine memoet o. IN
that Marklein thought pretty wei OF her
and desired 10 honor the miss by naming
q prospective stake mare after her.
There were quite a number Of people who
sized the matter up in this manner. and
they backed their opinion with cold cash
man to the post The stable let the mare
run loose. however. and Miss F1eischman
finished back in the ruck. Next time out
nobody cared to bet even confederate
money on. Miss F1eIschman. except her
owner. who was heard to remark that he
had backed his flly as the field was called
This time there was a remarkable differ
ence in Miss Flelschman's showing. Instead
defeating John W. Schorr's crack hIly
Sweet Grethen, hands down.
Last week Marklein started a cookbook
ing colt called T. G. Scarborough This fell
low went ID IN the betting and finished
absolutely last. Some day he will be backed.
will be as sudden a transformation in the
horses form as there was in Miss F1eisch-
Judge Brady has the only system for pre-
venting this kind of business. He chased
Louis Thompson from the Fair Grounds
last spring for racing Claude In this man
ner. Thompson let Claude run for Swee-
ney" until he got loo to ! for his money.
Then Claude came home alone and Thomp-
room in the United States.
This is the same Claude which won the
Tennessee Derby this year Judge Brady
ing Claude. When sent away from st. Louis
with his stable. Thompson took the colt
selling races. The frst time that Claude
was beaten Father BIZ Daily stepped to
the front and claimed the col; for 1880.
Starter Fitzgerald has been working here
without the recall nag. and his starting
has given general satisfaction. Fitzgerald
started without the recall flag at New Or
leans last winter and will work in the
East the coming season without a recall
He believes that Il IL the only system by
only three bad starts at the Memphis meet
ing up TO date. The first one happened In
the race which B~ensonhurt won from Irene
Mac and Uranium. There were two horses
left at the post In this race. Thursday
Fitzgerald made two more bad starts. but
Whiskey King is the only favorite FitZger-
aid has left at the post at Memphis.
The big bettors here have unlimited conf
dence in F1tzgerald's integrity To be sue
cessful without the recall flag. a starter
must have the confidence of both the bet
tors and jockeys. Otherwise the play in
the betting ring will suffer and the Jockey
ing of the boys for the best Of IL will pre-
vent the system from giving satisfaction.
Fitzgerald makes the boys riding under
bring their mounts abreast of the bar
rier ana stand fe OF course he
don't succeed in doing this all the time. Bad
actors and incompetent riders give him a
lot of trouble at times. but he generally
manages TO get all his fields of in fair
shape. His percentage Of good starts with
big fields is remarkably large.
All the newspaper correspondents who fol-
low the circuit are unanimously Of the opin-
ion that It "a only a question OF a short
time when all starters will be working
without a recall flag. President c. A. TITLES
of the St Louis Fair Association was one
of the strongest advocates of the no-recal
system when IL was first tried. Titles saw
the system in operation at Ingleside when
Ed Corrigan was running the San Francisco
track Corrigan Was the first American
track owner to put the no-recaIl system in
operation.
Charlie Ellison is credited with having
given the Memphis bookmakers the worst
trouncing OF the season when his horse
Harry New defeated a field which included
ord Of eleven straight victories to his
credit Harry New was favored by the
start. With an even break. Thane prob |
ably would have trimmed him.
Harry New Is a handsome black horse by
Pirate of PenZance-Barcalona. He distin-
guished himself in his Syear-old form by
winning the valuable Latonia Derby. Harry
New was named in homer of a prominent
indianapolis publisher and politician. The
for whom the horse was named
Is a son Of the late General John C New.
United States Consul TO London during the