Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-08-07
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| 1SOIec oaoHi has tuIucu JOthCy .
badge in to the Brighton Beach officials and
| will ride no more. Increasing weight Is
given as the reason for his retirement
| He now wears an owners badge and has
mild ambitions In the direction OF the con-
| duct Of a winning stable.
| The retirement OF Odom from the saddle
! will generally be regretted by all real
lovers Of the thoroughbred sport. He was
| known one of the most honest riders
| who ever drew a whip before metropolitan
| crowd and his name was synonymous
| with everything that was fare and square
around q race track.
There Is one boy you cannot reach"
was the common way Of referring to Odon
| In his seven years as a rider no breath Of
/ suspicion ever tainted Odom's career, and
| he was never set down for suspicious rides
Odom. In explaining the surrender of his
! Jockeys badge. says that he now weighs
| more than l30 pounds and that his weight
| is increasing. He had expected to have a
| Belmont mount in the Futurity. but con-
! cluded that he could never do rs pounds,
| the weight which was prescribed for him.
! At the rate that he has been taking on
weight he cannot expect tc long remain In
! the neighborhood OF 130 pounds.
When Odom started riding at AQue-
duct in 1S'6 he weighed less than seven
! five pounds He first came Into prom
| inence at Morris Park two years later and
! from that time on was star In the turf
world. Odom never won any of the three
| big yearly events-ths Futurity. the Brook
Ign or Suburban-but he has scored victories
| in nearly every other important race. He
| would have been a winner on Gold Heels.
| but was forced to give up the mount.
| Odom was a great whip rider and In the
| finishes was where he always showed his
| class. His finishes on Advance Guard are
| still talked of on the race courses. He
+, was always a courteous lad. and though
live ohIt frin hn
! known to allow friendship to interior e
| with duty. In consequence the finger of
| suspicion was never directed at him, and
| he always tried to win, no matter what the
| odds against him were.
When E. E. Smathers, the New York
| millionaire disposes Of his racing stable the
biggest racing combination of the American
| turf will pass away. In the Smathers
| stable sixty or more sons and daughters
| of great sires, and there is every reason to
believe that big sums will ultimately be
| realized by the sale of the horses Mr..
| Smathers' retirement from the turf will be
keenly felt, for during his short stay he
did everything possible to further the in
| retiring is something of mystery, but it
| Is believed that he has grown tired OF back
| Ing losers.
Il is more than likely that Sam 1Iilireth.
the man who trained Smathers norses on
the western tracks. will ultimately take up
| greater portion of the horses In the
! stable. 1t is almost sure that the famous
| trainer will keep McChesney and retire him
! to the stud. Another horse that Hildreth
would like to get hold of is Security, the
shifty little two-year-old, which won the
S25, 600 Great Trial stakes at Sheepshead
Bay few weeks ago These two horses
| are considered the most valuable IN the
| barn, but there are many others which,
wncn they finally do pass under the ham
| mer. will bring the best of prices. Among
| these are Burleigh, Rapid Water. Action.
| Odd Ella and High Chance. In the future
| 1t is very likely that Mr.. Smathers will
| devote his spare time to the trotting horse
| game, with which he was prominently iden-
| tilted before he took up with the runners
| He still owns a good stable of fast trot-
tiers and PAGERS and IL he follows the grand
| circuit with them. as expected, he Is likely
| to win some important events.
Mrs Lily Barnes Allen. who inherited the
| famous Rancocas stables and stock farm
| from the late Pierre Lorlllard, won S23,OoO
| in a single day on the races recently and
| had Gold Braid, her horse In the first race,
| come in first. she would have cleared up
$4,000 in single day. Running under the
| stable name of IL A. Barnes. which IS
| Mrs Aliens racing name, the horse was
! started in the betting at 100 to i. Mrs
Allen, sitting In the grand stand, surround
! ed by betting commissioners, sent Out into
the ring and backed the horse down to 90
10 l. Gold Braid, bred at Rancocas, was
! one Of the horses Mrs Allen Inherited from
Mr.. Lorillard. Mrs. Allen was Ore ssed
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| she attracted attention as she sat In The
| Brighton Beach grand stand Her nair.
| once so blonde, is now fast turning gray,
| but otherwise she looks as youthful as she
| did when she appeared at Saratoga during
| the summer of 1862 driving three horses
| abreast in chariot style.
| In spite of the opposition OF his father,
| Commodore Elbridge T. Gerry, Robert j..
| Gerry, known to his intimates as Bobby
| Gerry. has become fascinated With the turf.
| and is the latest patron of the sport OF
| kings. Because of his fathers opposition
| sBobby" Gerry has kept secret the fact
| that he has purchased the steeplechase
| horse Jeo. and that he has already tried
| for turf honors, Disgusting his own name
1 by running the horse under the name Of
| the Fauguer stables. Only few of young
! Cerry's friends knew that he was interested
| In the steeplechaser.- So poorly did the
| bookmakers think of the horse that they
| offered 100 to / against him, and in Held
| of thirteen the animal finished eighth.
revised list of dates for tournaments to
| nrecede the national championships has
| been prepared by the Polo Association COM
| mittee Among the changes made are The
| following: Saratoga Polo Club. August
/ to 10: Westchester Polo Club, Newport,
| August IL to %; Rumford Polo Club. PTovi-
| dence, August "a to 81; Bedham. Mass,
| Polo Club. September TO 0; Myopia Hunt,
| Hamilton, Mass. September IL to TO- Buff
| falo Country Club. September q 20 Octo-
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