The St. Louis Republic., 1904-02-29
5 amount is obtained ss follows.

Grayina- the most consistent performer
here at present, is a 4-ycar-old bay mare
by Golden Garter-Pink Cottage, she by
Buckdcn- Grayina belongs TO Fred De
Ruiz. and Is trained by John Powers for
Terly OF the st. Louis racing firm of
Gumperts & Powers. Powers has won
four straight races with Gravina. Her
record should have been six straight W
FISHER was left at the post on her one
day, and Sailing had her beaten under
MN on another occasion by his own mis-
management In the saddle.
Her best performance was a mile and
sixteenth in la, stepping the first mile
IN l:sO is under stout wrap
lowers also scored twic" with lcicle,
and the speedy chestnut sprinter looks
better now than he ever did. He had a
lowed tendon when Powers took charge of
MI him' ,d% but JOHNNY Guickly straiGhtened 1t
fectly sound again. Powers will ship
Gravina and Icicle to Bennings at the
conclusion Of the New Orleans meeting
Johnny is clever, conscientious man
with horse and ought to do well in th..
East. He won twenty-three races in two
months at st. Louis last season with such
cheap piaterS as Lunar Kisme Sweet
Dream and GALES.
ABEL STABLE TROUBLES.
Henry Schultz. a clocker at the track,
is responsible for the doping charge pre-
ferred against James Devlin, trainer of
the S. V. Abel stable. The Abel horses
raced in ST. Louis last season in the name
OF L. b. Sire. the well-known New York
tneatrlcal manager. Abel Is Mr.. Sire's
ofother-in.law- Schultz and Devlin had
some trouble over a negro named Hath
away. who formerly cooked for the Sire
stable; Hathaway and an exercise boy
named England another former empioye
OF the Sire stable, made affidavits chars-
horses in the stable.
When Leander Sire heard of the mat
formal investigation. Hathaway and Eng
land disappeared when the stewards began
70 look into the case. One went to Mem
phis. and the other is thought TO have
gone to Hot Springs. DevIin is a former
resident of ST Louis. and has had remark
n gnle success with the Sire horses. Gus
with the stable. and acts as Mr. Sire's
agent.
ROGERS GENEROUS.
Kid Rogers arrived from San Fran
cisco in time to see his horse DeReszke
win the George Washington Handicap,
worth Ni75 10 the winner, on February
z Rogers spent the winter on the coast
Just before leaving Frisco he beat Phil
Bollinger out of S2.v0U on Claude, the day
Mike Days colt won the Palace Hotel
Stakes Rogers bought DeReszke out East
tor the Insignificant sum of 800. The
Kid then put the horse in NJ. l.. Hay
mans stable. after persuading Eayman
TO engage Dick Watkins of St Louis as
his trainer.
Watkins has been training DeReszke.
Watkins brought out Jockey Willie Hen
messy Rogers. who was formerly a news
boy in st. Louis, is now one Of the great
gave away 500 in S. and so bills to needy
friends after DeReszke won the George
washington Handicap, and also pad the
Jar; aars Oh at least dozen "hustlers" to Hot
springs TWO nights later. The Kid went
10 Hot Springs himself
Joseph E. Martin. treasurer Of the Del
mar Jockey Club, came down from ST.
Louis last week in response to a teIe
gram from his wife to the effect that one
of their children was very sick with pneu-
monia. Mrs. Martin has been here with
some friends for several weeks. The child
has improved materially, and Mr. Mar
tin will probably return home in a few
days
After her impressive race behind Stella
Allen the other day, Dick Watkins lost
no time purchasing the filly from Pierre
Lorillards New Orleans agent. william
Hueston. for sl.5e,. She got off last and
ran Stella Allen 20 half length. Stella
was under wraps however o. G. Parke
has received several fancy offers lately
for Stella Allen and Arch Oldham. 1t will
take stif price to persuade the Texan
to part with either youngster
Billy Duane of New York made pres
ent of Semper WAX to Texas" Smith.
The latter then turned in and gave the
horse one OF his own Special preparations
and Semper Fivax came out and lowered
the New Orleans track record for one
mile and three -eighths. clipping one half
second off the besa previous mark, which
was 2:21iz.
Smith has been awfully lucky with cast
offs. He paid slO0 for Tappan and won
all kinds OF races with the horse. Sam
Lazarus sold him Sid Silver for a song,
and Smith has won a dozen races with
the gelding In less than a year. Smith
also picked up horse called Bonneville
for practically nothing some years ago,
and developed him into one of the handi-