The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-01-25
STREET HAS WON
THE MOST MONEY
Teacher of Languages in College at One
Time-Intrbduced Use of
Pipe Clay.

NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 25-During the
past week change took place in the
list OF winning owners at the Crescent
City Jockey Club track Up TO that
time Sam Hildredth with his horses and
those of z. Z. Smathers. which he
trains. led all of the owners and train
ers in the amount of money won. With
in the last few days DOC" Street won
a number OF events, and through the
success of Port Royal in the Cotton
Stakes on Saturday he forged to the
front and now leads all his rivals by
several hundred dollars.
Do you know Doc Street? No2 Well
he is quite a character in his way as
much so Pa" DAILY. Street is the
living, breathing exemplifcation Of what
an educated man can do as trainer of
racehorses. One time it was the general
belief that only an ignorant man with
plenty OF horse sense could be a sue
cessfuI trainer Street has shattered
this idea completely.
Once College Professor.
Street was at one time a professor in
a university. Just what his speciality
was has been forgotten in the days and
years that he has spent among the
thoroughbreds. but report says that he
was a teacher of languages.
Love for the horse. desire for specu-
lation, and several other frivolous ways
of living caused the doctor to drift to
the race track. He secured a few horses
and soon started, after he had mastered
the elementary parts of the stable edu-
cation, 90 train them Street had his
own notions and views in regard 10
how horses speed should be brought
up 10 the zenith of perfection. He also
had his own idea in regard to patching
up cripples. He was not controlled nor
hampered by hide-bound views and the
cries that had been handed down for
years from trainer to trainer; instead,
the doctor was original.
Use of Pipe Clay.
While other trainers bound and wound
the legs of their horses with cotton and
rubber bands to strengthen and hold the
tendons that threatened at any moment
to break through the sheathing OF the
leg, Street applied a coating of nipe
clay to the limbs under suspicion. This
pipe clay, put on when it was OF the con-
sistency OF mucilage, dried up and hard
ened when allowed to remain on the
legs a short while. This tightening
process Of the pipe clay bound up the
tendons and muscles as firmly as though
they were in a plaster cast It was
not only better I'm this respect than
any bandage that had ever been found
and used. but it avoided all the pos
sible dangers attending a bandage slip
ping from the leg and becoming en-
twined around a horses hoofs when he
raced
1t was with such methods that Street
took a number Of cripples and won sew
eral races that cost the boolSmakers
large amounts of money. His memorable
coup" with Niagara at the Monmouth
Park track will never be forgotten by
the layers, who had TO pay out a num-
Der OF big bets TO Street and his friends.
witful to Have a Rest.
Witful. Sam Hiidreth's great mare.
win not face the flag again before the
Memphis meeting. She has been prac-
tically turned out Of training and viii
receive a long rest In order TO strength
en- her for the arduous campaign that
Hildreth has mapped out for her this
summer. She viii be entered i'm all the
big events throughout the West. Hill
dreth believes that in this mare nc pos
sesses a horse Of the quality and class
Of McChesney. so sanguine is he that
she win win some of the big events that
he recently refused big cash offer for
her.
Hicks 10 Ride in East.
Toolrory "a nth. I'm Ia. r., -