The Saint Paul globe., 1905-01-22
HARNESS TRAINERS
FAIL WITH RUNNERS
Few Who Quit suIky Make
Good With Bang
tails

NEW YORK, Jan. 21.-George Spears
departure for the South to enter on his
new duties as trainer OF string of run
ners for q. E. Smathers, and the almost
simultaneous announcement that M. e.
McHenry may desert the bangtails and re-
turn to the trotters next season, serve as
reminders to horsemen that great many
of the successful trainers of the running
turf are oldtime trotting-horse men, and
that while they have succeeded in the new
field, many others accounted at least their
equals in training light harness horses
failed when they tried their hands with
the thoreughbreds.
Enoch Wishard. whose brilliant work
with the horses Of John A. Drake made
him famous In England as well as in
America, Is q notable example of the sue
ceSsfut race horse trainer whose early ex-
perience was gained with the harness
horses, Back = in the eighties Wishard
campalgned string Of trotterS and pac-
ers on the half-mile tracks In indiana.
with Indifferent success and without
arousing any suspicion among horsemen
Ihats one day he would be recognized as
any mans equal In fitting thoroughbred
s to race In speaking of Wishard,s sue
cess Mr.. Drake once said: do you know
why ha outclasses every other trainer? It
ard knows the foot Of the horse as well
as Robert Bonner did, and he can turn
Plate and put 1t on with mora skill
tAAcit ally ludIl III The profession.
John e. Madden Is another prominent
ngure on the running tracks who formerly
followed the trotters. Hts success In both
branches OF the sport has been extraor-
dfnary, no other man In the country, per-
maps, having brought out and sold at high
prices so many young thor0ughbredS and
harness horses In the days of the great
boom ain breeding trotters Madden made a
fortune buying and selling stations, brood
mares and colts, his Judgment of bioodli-
ness being as good as his eye for form and
speed.
Crit Davis. who trained some prominent
winners in the Metropolitan racing circuit
last season, Is well remembered among
harness horsemen as the driver Of Prince
and score or more of other fast trotters.
When located at Harrodsburg, KY, he
was a breeder OF trotters as well as a
trainer and driver, and at one time owned
Red Wilkes. the sire Of 100 trotters in the
2:30 list. Davis transferred his allegiance
to the runners because he became too
heavy to drive trotters.
John campbeps Early History
John e. Campbell is as well remembered
for his reinSmanShip and strategy when
driving the Texas PAGER RichbalI, 2:f2A.
as for his success in fitting Pessara to win
lyn handicap. and Ogden the Futurity OF
Sheepshead Bay, for Marcus Daily, Camp
bell was one of the foremost trainers and
to the runners fifteen years ago. His
career since then has been one of ups
and downs, but he has brought out some
big winners, and Is regarded as success
full trainer OF thoroughbreds With Rich
ball and Ogden Campbell made two Of the
biggest killings on record in American
racing.
william L. Simmons. who owned George
Withefs, 2:22, in his paIrny days as q
trotter and as q sire of trotters, deserted
the harness horses soon after the collapse
of the boom in breeding. a decade ago,
and is now racing q stable Of runners in
mons @ s Also I'VE went % over to the % runners s after after
having caMpa1gned string of trotters in
the grand circuit several years in sueces-
sion.
Among the recent recruits from the trot-