Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-16
ANOTHER SPEEDWAY
MATINEE TUESDAY

, rowood, a son OF Nutwood 2.1sN. MI.
Brooke who recently parted with the fast
and sweet little mare Edna Wilkes, Will
drive Tusco on the speedway, and will
enter him in some Of the future events
over that course.
Il
Leonard A. Acker, who trains and drives
for Mr. Peter Taylor, Is inclined to think
that the little black gelding. Direct Mack,
. 1914 which he campaigned last season,
will be good enough to get the money in
his class in 1907 Mr.. Acker also thinks
highly of the green chestnut gelding Carr
stairs. a trotter, which Mr. Taylor recently
purchased. that has shown a mile IN
1871 Ca3rstairs is by Simmocoion, the
Michigan sire, his dam being by the iate
Senator Stockbridge's Ambassador, 22IA'
another sire of extreme speed. by George
Wilkes, Ambassadors dam being the cele-
brated brood mare Edith Carr.
Mr.. Acker has brought Gaiety. 2.O9A, IN
from the country, and she Is In etter
might than she has been in form many
years. Gaiety has been raced without ces,
sation since she was three-year-old' ana
has gone many bruising mics Since sne
first donned harness. Mr.. Acker expects 70
c7mpaign her next season, and hopes that
she viii do in her class, when Is ahiohs
the top nOtcherS.
If ali reports be true Thomas w. Lawson
of Boston has rung down the curtain on
turn his attention to business, with which
he has had greater experience. MT. Law
sons experience is on par win tnat y,
some other men of means who beileVeo
they could produce results in other f1elds
of endeavor than those to which they hao
previously paid more thought Even as
good a business man as the late hupell
Bonner, who never permitted le" .hou
sand dollars to stand between himself ana
the horse he wanted made a dismal fail-
ure of his breeding venture, While on the
other hand. the late Senator leland stan
ford and the late Cicero J. Hamiin We're
eminently successful. Mr.. Lawson paid Mr..
Hanlin $50 900 for the stallion Dare Devli.
2O9. and expended thousands for brood
mares of high degree. the mating OF WhiGn
with the Hamlin horse he expected Wouiu
produce the highest results in the way OF
extreme speed.
lust WHY Mr. Lawson was suddenly at
tackled with cold feet" before his young
sters had developed age enough to decide
whether he was on the right track or not
is difficult to diagnose at this date Pos
sibly he realized that as much as he loved
horses the breeding of them was not ms
vocation. nor. after all, to his taste. Ii the
public estimate of the value of a horse Is
what it is willing to pay for him under the
hammer then the public differs with MI:
Lawson as to the value of Dare Devll. AT
handsome and highly bred horse was
knocked down to William II. Reid OF New
York city for the insignificant sum OF s9,foo.
a mere fraction of what Mr.. Lawson PAID
Mr. Hamlin for him. Mr.. Lawson was SO
disguised at the public estimate or the
value of the stallion that he bought him
back at an advance of $1,000 over the orig
inal sum for which he was sold On the
other hand. the high-class brood mares
from Mr. Lawson's establishment brought
long prices but at that his experiment in
breeding must have put him many thouE
sand dollars to the bad, as 1t is estimated
that he had expended upward OF million
of dollars on his breeding plant /
1t is humilating for Mr.. Lawson to con-
template that Axworthy sold at the same
sale for sol, 900, and that with the hardest
kind of roofing scarcely half that sum
could be had for his favorte stallion. But
the results possess no secrets for those who
have followed the careers of the two slres.
Axworthy has produced long list of exe
treme speed, while Dare Devil has his
reputation in that direction to make. In
the end Dare Devil may outclass AXworthy
as a sire. During the nine days grind at
the Garden, ,013 horses were disposed OF
for a total of s429, 1856, which figures have
been beaten but twice-1901 and 1904. The
average per head for good bad and indif-
the horse is still holding his own IN the
affections and esteem of the American peo
pie and that there is no real danger that
the auto cars will drive him off the face of
the earth in the near future, as some per
sons have predicted. -