The Washington times., 1906-07-22

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Henry Morris, steward OF the Jockey
Club bv way Of interfering a verbal
comma into the rhapsodic speech Mr.
Leavitt delivered 70 q company q
| oronies on the club house balcony at
/ Brighton Beach upon the project ana
prospect OF racing beyond the Great
Lakes I.eavitt assured his auditors Of
the fact that racing in Winnipeg two
years hence would be on the same sat
I tsfactOry plane upon which rests the
glorious meetings at Woodbine Park az,
| Toronto. Ont. and everybody Of the turf
knows full well no more brilliant social
! or sporting function than the early
/ spring term at Woodbine is 10 be seen
beyond Ascot or Belmont
Northern Sports Active.
Just when the Winnipeg plant will be
/ in operation is matter OF conjecture
I at this time Suffice 20 say the Mae
henzies are lending shoulder 70 the
wheel, and no more thorough or liberal
patrons OF the high class in sport stand
/ before the Canadian public than they.
incidentally, ROderick Mackenzie brought
! on a ten-strike at the recent sale of the
yeaFllngs from Catesby WOOdfOrd's Ken
lucky farm at Sheepshead Bay. His
agent paid tl,700 for a half-sister TO the
great mare Whimsical Inquiry among
the colored help Of Woodford elicIts the
| Iact that this hlly has shown better than
/ did Whimsical at the corresponding
/ period in her yearling term.
Mr.. Woodford himself expected a s. 900
/ sale for this one, but owing 10 a slight
| oHlshness. due 10 the long car ride I'D
/ Irom the Blue Grass State. the nllv an
/ peared Jagged and wrong In the ring.
Since July q MacKenzle's purchase has
come ON in fine style. and unless she
ouraces the best horses Of her age and
sex In Canada next year. many good
/ yearling judges are far astray. She is
- eF Dixon, from the good mare Kis-
met. At the same sale where the
Messrs. Mackenzie. Of Winnipeg. Mani
looar bought six yearlings for "a 40. a
/ nlce-lookihs colt by Aazagan went their
way. me rest. principally flIies. the
Egl OF ST Slmonian, We're very ordinary.
me Sir DiXon-kismet hIly Is the most
promising yearling ever sent 10 Canada.
Intersectional Jealousy.
Never before in the history Of metro
poi'tan racing has the rivalry between
the interests or the East and the West
/ developed such keen edge as that 10
be discerned every afternoon here AZ
/ brighton, both in the doings of the bet-
ting ring and among the Jockeys and
/ owners out in the paddock. The line IS
SHARPLY drawn. Talk about the native
son proposition in pugilistlc affairs out
frisco way! Why no section of men
/ IN lhe world are SO conceitedly Ciannish
OF local prestige and prerOgativa as the
Ne" ork bookmakeTs and horse own
eIs- IN the old days when the bookmall
ers held an exclusive and moroUolistic
/ SOHtIOi over the ring by virtue of the
Jockey club recognizing the pOOkmak-
StS STI oIsAnlzatlon called the Metropolitan
! LuII Association, the boollnakers from
/ chicago, III, or St. Louis, No. came
here IN fear and trembling.
\ western owner, We will say had q
good horse. He heard so much talk Of
/ speed and stamina Of the purple bred
colt or filly of a New York owner maj
Mr.. Westerner generally failed 10 nouni-
maze IN the rich stakes. But a change
has come about, due largely 10 John
A Drake and John W. Gates In lqOq
/ Drake came from Washington Park
/ Chicago, Ill, to Saratoga with Runnels,
High Chancellor, Savable, and Wyeth.
| Gates had the bank roll and Drake the
/ horses. It Is a long story, but SUFFICE n
say, the Drake horses ran over the
! Eastern stars at the Spa, a series Of sue
cesses terminating with SavabIe's S
triumph in the Futurity in the autumn
I at SheeDshead Bay.
WeSrerners Prosperous.
"Joe" Ullman and 'IIidv Weller ran
a strong book for Gates called the
Big Store" It got the lions share Of
the money gambled off by New Yorkers
that summer. Later on McChesney,
The Picket. Colonial Girl, and other
strong performers on the Chicago and
81 Louis tracks ventured into the local
field, and Joe" Yeager Otto Stifel.
and Louis Celia came a-hunting for the
coin in the betting rings. For three
summers now the invaders have been
. doing right we'll. but here at the pses-
eht time both luck and money are COM
ing their way with such ridiculous
arms.
! Bookmakers' clerks who were hust-
ing at New Orleans and out in Cali
Iornia last winter have profted by
, tnelE knowledge Of the form and class
{ or western horses until right at the
: present time automobiles 10 and from
brighton Beach and table d'hote din
ners as the daily windup are the cor
rect ideas in their set But the cIinnax K
came last week with the overvheIrning
success Of the Western horses IN the
neld or Ihe $4,000 Brighton Handicap.
) Rams Horn. from Memphis, Tenn.
Z won. First Mason, in the colors Of
. Charley" Rowe. Of St. Louis. took
second money, and then Tokalon. rem
resenting ]. ". Fuller, OF Mineral
: Springs, Ark.-she had previously
won the Brooklyn Handicap-dropped
Tn for the "leavin's" attached TO third
honors. Dandelion. Whimsical. Ham
burg Belle, and the other home fam
} cies finished in the dismal ruck
Copyright, 1906. By Hearst News Servioe.)