Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-08-05
GREAT BETTING COUP
ON FOXHALL RECALLED

The recent death of James r. Keene's
four-year-old race horse Sysonby removes
from field of turf and stud usefulness the
worlds greatest racer and its most valu-
able animal as well, judged by the offer
OF 100000 made by an English syndicate
last winter. The entire turf world of two
hemispheres sympathizes with Owner Keene
In his great loss Not as far as the finan-
clal part is concerned, for the great colt
with his dame cost Mr.. Keene only SC. 500
and won in 1904 and 1905 the princelv sum
| of $17S,O00.
Added to this large sum, Sysonby was
insured at home and abroad for 500 600
so his owner is In his stable expensea for
four or five years on this one horse alone
even if his stable mates fail to win another
race during the period named.
James H. heene has owned some great
horses and money winners since his first
turf venture in 1878 with spendthrift and
Dan sparling at famous cid Jerome Park
Domino, Commando Disguise IT 1rouyny
Atkins, the great Foxhall and many Others
But Sysonby was considered py the hest
JUDGES as the peer of them all the deetest
race horse that ever stood on IRON
The horses Short-Iiyed career WAC a t,,rP
romance from the day his dam Optune an
Enslish mare by Orme was imported TO
TINS country in 1901 as The propertv of
| Marcus DAILY, the late copper king of Mon
tana. Sold at auction al Sbeensbea5 D.,
at the disposal of the Daly stud Ontune
and her unborn foal by the great E,neiisb
morse Melton were purchased by Mr. Keena
| and sent to his Castleton stud -, a. LI
| lucky. IA Al NTH
Major Foxhall A DangerdeId brotba.
| ln-Iaw OF Owner Keene, who has Ga ahi,,
managed Castleton for q decade noted u,ftb
mueh interest the birth of Optune's arfsto-
| cratic son in the spring of 1909 and The
/ newcomer was Straip btUary obr
| ohoy, after Foxhau Keene's shooting how
| near Mowbray, England. "0A
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| From the time he had his first scamner
| over the blue grass paddocks at Castleton
| Sysonby showed himself much like bis
great sire, even to his Top" ears And
when, as yearling at the Brookdale
| n. j., training quarters of the stable he
| began TO show phenomenal speed. Trainer
/ Rowe and Owner Keene both knew that
| ne was q youngster of the very highest
| type VINO, bar accident, was destined to
1 prove the noblest Roman of then, all.
/ very rarely in the history of the high-
class thoroughbred race horse does a great
| tnfi performer outbreed himself-nanlely
| sire a better race horse. But Melton did
/ when he got Sysonby A family of snrin-
ters OF phenomenal speed, the Meltons had
| produced few good performers over a
| route until Sysonby's star flashed athwart
the i"S4is HoIiZol Prince Charlie did the
same thing when he begat Salvador. But
few other cases of this sort have cropped
| up of late years.
| As two-year-old Sysonby showed such
| meteorie trials at Brookdale that plans for
| u TREMENDOUS betting coup that May
| $500 at Morn's Park were formed, as
! enough could have been won in race over
! the Eclipse straight course to have
| eclipsed even the $4,000 coup of Marcus
/ DAILY on Ogden In the latters Futurity
| when as much as 90 to l was obtained.
| But Sysonby got .'bucked' shins and later
| a cold, and the coup, postponed never
/ came off, as the checkers" and rail
/ birds soon got track of him.
/ IN his first race the stable had to take
| to 2, and thereafter the layers offered
/ but short odds against the great colt. But
1 his owner, except on rare occasions makes
but nominal wagers, aud he was well