The Washington times., 1906-11-25

give rAmericainl Vive PAmericain!'
resounded through the wooded paddocks
Of AIaisons LATTE and about other race
courses in France this pat summer. for
an American, W. X Vanderbilt. swept
al the. choice French turf prizes before
him. bringing the prestige of his coun-
try 90 the fore and adding greatly 10 the
rcnoWn abroad OF the United States, In
a sporting ana horse-racing way.
But the French crowds Will have oCCa-
sion 10 shout the above acclaim even
more frequently next season. and sea
sons 10 come, for late this week the in
formation that stin another wealthy
American, Paul J. Rainey. of Cleveland,
Ohio, would embrace a racing career in
France became tip OF the tongue about
the Metropolitan Club and out at the
Bennlng club house the past week.
Other Americans Going Over.
Young Rainey is now in North Caro-
lima after game. so the report cannot
DE verified AT this time. but from what
can be learned. Rainey will probably
maintain small but select string Of
horses near Paris in the near future
while still retaining his chief interest in
racing for thu spot about the New York
courses. Rainey bought the contract
or Radtke. purchased De Mund for $i5,-
600. and spent over 100000 in racing this
past summer. He Is a man of wealth.
and. no doubt. could afford 10 invest in
a foreign racing establishment.
Within the last Two years another
epidemic for foreign Invasion on the
part of American turfmen has developed.
but, unlike the fever Of ten years ago,
when Tod" Sloan and other local turf
products swamped England, France is
now the Mecca L, Y, Bell, who re
Gently married Annie Madden, divorced
wife of John +. Madden. and then went
TO Paris to escape the scathing cTiti-
cism of the New York newspapers, has
decided to live there. He il establish
ing q Partisan residence and will race
horses there In 1907, so the Benning sos-
sip of the current week has il. Bell is "a
millionaire many times over and Will
no doubt play as strong hand as has
". X Vanderbilt Bell won the Subur-
ban Handicap with Alcedo in 1901 and
once owned the great Hermis
Vanderbilt's Great Success.
The matter OF Americans racing on
the French turf comes TO the fore at
this time because OF Vanderbit's great
success. lie finished up the season there
three weeks ago with a winning of
S2i2, $50, heading the list OF winning
French owners, an unparalleled feat for
an American turfman. For ten years
Mr.. Vanderbilt had been racing In
France, but here was the first time he
had attained the full measure of good
fortune. II was due. of course, to the
good horses in his large French stable,
F4rr his American fgr1Fvav tsTgf1Isrrr nh.
is entitled to "a sood deal of the hon0rs,
too
Duke trained IN the American idea.
He brcezed his horses three-quarters Of
a mile very frequently, while the French
trainers were content 10 DRILL their
charges over a distance of a mile and
"a half or two miles Duke believes in
giving horse some speed as well as
developing a stamina sufficient to carry
the animal over a long route. It SO
happened, then, that q majority of the
Vanderbilt horses this year were able to
hang TO the pace set by their competi-
tors and then outhnish them In the
stretch, where their speed counted. Duke
comes from Wellsvlle. \. Y, and is now
al home enjoying triumphant visit
Two Famous Horses.
Duke trained and Mr.. Vanderbilt
owned the greatest of all French three
year-old thoroughbreds. This is Pres
uge, IDOL Of the Paris racing crowds.
Then there Is Maintenon. winner of the
French Derby. Scarcely less high class
than Prestige is Maintenon. also Van
derbllt colt and a -year-old. These
two horses continually kept the name
OF Vanderbilt on the wing through the
Partisan boulevards the past summer.
ely week but one or other of
Them took Gown some notable victory.
Il decade ago James Keene won the
Grand Prix do Paris with FhxhaU bur
ne never SO completely dominated
French racing as cid Vanderbilt In 1906
Maintenon IS not thought to be within
ntteen pounds as good a colt as his
stable mate, Prestige, and though he
Won the French Derby he also met de-
feat in the Grand Prix before smear
mint winner of the English DERBY,
bearing the colors of Major Eutoce
Loder- Maintenon did not run 10 his
best form against Spearmint and was
beaten OF, many OF the shrewdast
Judges contendinE that had Prestige
borne the Vanderbilt coIors that dev
the English colt would never have
shown the way home.
A Sore Disappointment.
The loss of the Grand Prix de Paris
was sore disappointment to France ana
Mr. Vanderbilt especially to the owner.
as IL is the richest turf prize I'm all the
world, the winners share being about
So0pcG Unfortunately, Prestige was in
eligible to start He was bred bv NJ
Revault. who met death while taking
an alcohol bath in cabinet which over
turned and imprisoned him. Before he
could be released he was fatally burned
and soon afterWard expired. 1t was NJ
Revaults death which made Prestige in
eligible for the great race which at
tracted over 100000 Parislans to the
course 20 see the contest.
Prestige proved 70 be an aptly-named
colt. lie cost Mr.. Vanderbilt $1,000 as a
yearling, but paid his purchase price
many times by beating every horse he
met, both as "a two-year-old and a
three-year-old. French authorities have
declared that this Prestige Is the best