The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1906-1907, 1906-08-27
MADDEN's PLAN.
Noted Running Horse Breeder
lis Now to Raise TP0ttePs.

John E. Madden, whose name has
been one to conjure with on the run
ming turf for the last i've years, has
decided to go back to his first love
the light harness horse-and to head his
stud has selected the stallion Prince
Selma, 2:1024, son Of Bow Bells.
Madden halls from Bethlehem, Pa.
and from boyhood to his present age a
shade over forty, he has been fond Of
good horses of all sorts. His first ex-
perience as an owner and breeder was
with the trotters, about two decades
ago. His early turf star was Glass
Leader, gray gelding that could trot
er and was impressed with the fact
that his dam was the old time race
mare Tackey. that had also produced
the trotters Pilot Boy, 2:20; Naiad
Queen, 2:20A. and the stallion Pilot
Medium, that was then beginning to
shine as a wonderful sire of speed.
Madded decided that Pilot Junior blood
was the thing, but there was no chance
to act on the conviction just then,
writes Henry Ten Eyck White.
He went on buying trotters and rae
ing them, possibly the best Of his string
being Suisun, 2:1SA- She was by Elec-
tioneer and cost lot of money; also
she raced badly at times, but Madden
finally sold her and got out even. Splan
and Turner did the training and driv-
ing for Madden, and from those ora
Giles Madden, who had been an athlete
in his youth, with chip on his shoulder
to run 100 yards against any amateur,
began storing up ideas on how to pre-
pare horses for high class racing.
About that time there was lot of ex-
element among breeders over the Pilot
Junior blood In the female line-the
thing that had set Madden thinking
when Glass Leader was in his stable.
Waterwitch, q. daughter Of Pilot Junior,
was just then undisputed queen Of
brood mares. Bred to the imported
thoroughbred stallion Bonnie Scotland,
she produced the trotter Scotland,
2:2215, that could go two miles. Then
she was sent to the trotter Mambrino
Pilot, and her colt by him, Mambrino
Gift, was the first stallion to trot in
2:20. Bred to Belmont, she produced
Viking, which beat 2:20 with little
training, and Waterloo, his brother,
took a mark of 2:19A A third mem
Der of the family, Warder, also trotted
into "the list" and as in the meantime
the daughters of Waterwitch were pro
ducing speed and one of them, Wave
let, took record of 2:24A breeders
simply were jumping for the blood.
At this time Madden, hardly more
than boy in years, learned that one
Of the sons of Waterwitch, a stallion
called Warlock, brother to Viking
Warder and Waterloo, had been sold
several years before to an English
breeder. Guarded inquiry resulted in
the whereabouts of the horse being
ascertained, and on the next steamer
| Madden started to buy the expatriated
trotter, the trip being the first of the
! kind on record Reaching England, he
/ found that the American trotter was
/ being advertised as a horse that sired
colts Of the best hackney type-this in
| q district where there were plenty Of
| pure bred hackney stations. But War
locks colts were getting business for
him. Following the hackney fashion.
Warlock's tail had been locked, and
he came back to America looking little
like trotting bred nag. Madden sold
him at fine profit right away and
then began paying attention to the run
ming horse game
He saw there was money in 1t for a
smart hOrseman with some capital. and
in the quadruple capacity OF owner,
breeder, buyer and seller he made q
wonderful success. BallyhO0 Bey,
Yankee, Plaudit and other colts that
he got ready to race were sold at fabu'
lous prices to eastern millionaires.