The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-12-09
Game Gelding Housed at Livery
< Stable Down at Little
R0ck.
GRAVESEND WINNER
WORTH BIG MONEY
VIII Be Shipped to Belmont
1 Park in April for Thor
Ough Training.
Tribune Special Sporting Service.

Tribune Special Sporting Service
LITTLE ROCK. Ark. Dec. S-Thou-
sands of those metropolitan race
goers who went into fits of rapture
at the spectacle which SalviGere made
of his opponents when he won the
Jounio Champion stakes at Grayesend
on September % learned with amaze.
ment how the game gelding has been
forced To occupy quarters in n livery
stable in Little Rock because of the
unit condition of the stabling al that
course.
~, salvideEe is valued by his owners
Thomas Hitchcock, Jr.. and John T..
Madden, at 100000 Re is insured at
large figure. IL IS said $50,000 upon
which a premium OF per cent is paid.
is the amount of The insurance, making
an additional $4,000 to the cost of
wintering the geldinp and gradually
getting him ready Tor the big stakes
to be run early in 1907.
There is not doubt that he will be
entered IN all four of the big handicaps.
beginning with the Metropolitan and
ending with the Brighton. These
two, with the Brooklyn and the Su.
burban, Will be worth about $4,000
to the winner 1t is of course IN
likely that Salvidere or and other
races, but should he win one or two OF
them the value Of either would be
about 100000 Add to this his engage
ments IN the regular three-year.old
stakes to be run on the big tracks in
1907, and it can easily lie seen that
given good winteriug and ordinary
luck, this son of Belvidere is worth at
)east $4,000 on account of his engage
mcnts alone.
But after his racing career ends, the
future of Salvidere viii ultimately be
exactly that of the cab horses whose
company he rs now enjoying. Unfcrtu-
natelY for the good OF the turf. Salvi-
derc is a geldlng, and like thousands of
other good racers, his merits will not be
transmitted TO posterity. This will also
be the destiny of Roseben, also a geld
ing,
The fact that John Madden sent Sal
vIdere so far south as Little Rock,
instead of winrering at Aiken, s. c.,
or Lexington, or at the Metropolitan
planned an early campaign for the
geldlng a racer coming to the North
from the Southwest has the Northern
horses at great disadvantage. This
was one reason why BoundlesS won the
World s Fair Derby at Chicago in 1898
Carrying out his plans. Madden will
ship Salvidere to Belmont Park in
April, and there make ready for the
metropolitan handicap. Being a geld
ing, Salvidere will be easier to fit than
ST he were an entire horse. Taking
Bysonby as line. any good three"year.
old should be dangerous in the Metro.
Dolitan. Sysouby did not win, but he
was the best horse, and his dead heat
with Race King, conceding him much
weight, was great performance
After the Metropolitan the bic three
yearold stakes. such as the Withers
and Belmont, will engage Madden s at
'tention- There is much less competi-
ton in the three-year old stakes than
for the valuable handicaps, and practi-
cal horsement do not fear to run with
three year-olds in the former, notwith-
standing it means carrying much higher
weight.
After Belmont Park Will come the
Brooklyn handicap, the Suburban and
the Brighton. Long before July
comes around the best Eastern stables
will be ready, but their great trouble
will he that Snlvidere and Madden s
foury year-old, the Quail. win both have
an advantage over the Keene, Whitney,
Haggln and Duryoa stables