The Indianapolis journal., 1904-06-05
SENATOR BAILEY FOR
SHORT HARNESS RACES
Texas Breeder of Trotters Ex-
plains His Ideas on Trotting
Conditions.
TWO-IN-THREE SYSTEM
He Also FavorS All Efforts to
Detect and Suppress Fraud
in Racing.
SYSTEM

NEW YORK, June 4.-Among Americas
foremost breeders of trotters none is more
practical in his working methods nor more
interesting or instructive when engaged in
discussing the various conditions contin-
gent than the noted Texas statesman.
Senator Joseph w. Bailey Many fancy
that he began with Prodigal, 2:16. which
horse he obtained when the estate of Mar
Gus DAILY dispersed the Bitter Root ranch
stud at a Garden auction.
Not So Senator Bailey has bred trotters
for the better part OF the last decade ana
Prod1gal and engaged Charles Marvin, SO
long at the PalO Alto and Prospect Hill
farms of the late Senator Leland Stanford,
or California, and Joseph {. Slbley, or
Pennsylvania.
Marvin thinks Prodigal the peer of any
sire, and, at the Lexington headquarters,
thinks he can show more high-class year
lings by him than can be led out and
credited to any other sire in America. This
must be gratifying TO Senator Bailey, yet
he does not show unusual enthusiasm when
speaking of his own horses. rather more
when he chances TO allude to one owned by
another.
No breeder has more practical views than
Senator Bailey, and, while believing in the
building up or his race of horses at hls
farm, but as not one stallion In hundreu
achieves success, and not one in a thou
sand is fitted to be a prospective leader,
he has ordered his colts added to the list
for the stud.
He owns thirty rare bred brood mares
and is leasing twenty more to breed to
Prodigal, for he does not stand the Of
Pancodst and Beatrice to the public, yet
when he sees that the produce of a mare
are disappointing in any department. he in
variably sells, not only the youngsters that
are undesirable, but the mare herself
Few can do this. yet the late j. Malcolm
in their enthusiasm, deceive themselves
and are blind to their own interests. SEN
ator Baileys public life leads one to sup
pose he would not hesitate TO make a
precipitate loss to correct a growing evil.
His yearling hlly, Bertha Bennett by
Prodigal, last season showed an ability TO
trot eighthS and quarters at Lexington at
2:16 clip and Marvin thought he had in
her better colt trotter than the champion
Abdel. 22S, as yearllng, which prodigy,
by the way, he marked
Senator Bailey thought Bertha Bennett
| would be bettered II preserved with an
| other season. so she will likely be out as
| "a two-year-old and take an exceptionally
| low record.
1t cannot be questioned that Marvin
| knew his filly, and he has rarely started
| youngster for a world record unsuc-
| ceSSflllly, so 1t appears to the practical en-
| thusiast that, while never started, Bertha
| Bennett must have been an advanced year
ling trotter. All will hope to see Marvin
give her record to prove his claims.
Senator Bailey favors the. two-n-three
system of trottiDg, and also is in thorough
| accord with all efforts to detect and sup
press fraud. He thinks that there is stlll
| mucn 10 De done along the line OF effectlVe
| legislation, and believes that the delibera-
tions of legislative bodies should be sup
| ported by the horsemen large rather
| than haggled over and antagonized.
| No man serving in the National Trotting
| Association has ever worked harder than
| he. and his influence is widespread Every
| one respects his deductions when impor-
| tant measures or reforms are under dis
| cussioD. 1t may be pertinent to interpose
| that Senator Bailey's stand during the re-
cent movement anent Grand Circuit inde-
pendence and the like has been quite mis-
| understood. He is in favor of holding the
| great National Trotting Association to-
| gether, and widening its sphere of useful
ness, yet believes in managing trots some
what as are the races on the inner tracks
governed.
No man has much to sacrifice in sery-
ing the trotting horSemen as has Senator
| Bailey. Consider what busy man he is
| Consider the many enterprises and inter
| ests demanding his time aside from public
| life at Washington. Yet he has been ever
liberal and true TO the sport of racing
| even though never wagering dollar OIL
a trot in his life.