Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1906-05-26

1 gated or done something else fierce /
z him. Rarus became champion.
"How about Maud So Well, sh
! was lucky, all right. Nobody at th
4 farm where she was bred set niue
store by the chestnut FLY. because be
sire had not got speed to amount I
anything. The first man that bough
her found be had a Wild. willful I'll,
on his hands. and be sold out to an
other man who didn Z think much Of
his bargain Two weeks later. But-anS
here is where the luck begins-Maud
5, unframed and practically unbroken
used TO having her OWL way and will.
ing TO take wallop with her hind legs
at anybody that came too close to her
was turned over TO young man named
Bair simply and solely because be hap
pened to be the only trainer in Gin.
einnati, the town having no track but
poor half mile ring in the suburbs.
"Now, Bair was not esteemed much
Of a trainer and he was pegged about
right. 50 far as ordinary horses went.
but he was what the ehestnu; flly had
TO have. He began treating her as
if she was a pet kitten, and that was
what she needed. Say. it was funny
the way that mare made speed after
Bar had taught her that nobody was
going TO hurt her, and that lump sugar
and apples were part of the diet at his
horse hotel She went so fast il scared
Bair, and as for the owner-he was a
man Of full habit-it made him lean
up against the fence and laugh every
time she was worked. she was 50 fast.
"Bair stayed with Maud S. until
she had heated all the records even
after the Cincinnati man had sold her /
TO Vanderbilt, and he in turn 10 Bon.
ner' but when other people did the
training that mare was plain slob.
When Vanderbilt bought Maud he con.
elude6 that a first class trained was
what she wanted and turned her over
to Long Island jockey named Burr.
Mr. Burr trained awhile in the ortho-
iox way-and Maud lost about ten
seconds Of her speed. Then there was
riot call sent west for Bair. and be
'ane on and began beating the watch
With the mare once more.
after Maud S. left him for good
3air traine6 plenty Of other horses |
nos, Of them of proud merit before |
hey entered his stable, but be had no
ueeess and dropped out of the game
lntil last summer, when he reappeare3
i a grand circuit meeting behind
rot horse and was distaneed about an
ighth Of mile the first crack on, Of
he box.
" You know st. Julien was once the
hampton. Think he wasn't luekysl
here was another ease Of the right .
aan for the right horse. When Orrin
iiekok took 81. Julien the trotter had
record Of 2;22, and he was one large .
andful for any man to tackle. HEX
K believed the bay gelding with the
'ieked eye was the making sf a cham.
ion, but il took him two solid years
ef0re he had that horse broke to lie
rive so that the man in the sOlkv Z
Tas allowed 10 have something TO saw
the game. For one whole season
Iiekok worked. Julien from 40 to sol
liles day. HOw's that for dziving,
% other way, though, 10 put that
orse wise to the fact that the trainer B
as going 70 be boss. Ia
Then, when things were ready for 4
lie cutting Of the melon Hiekok knew a
AT the horse must have a earetaker ;
lat liked him, that the horse liked, o
I'd that believed Julien was going 10 ii
sat the record. William Blathwick L
AS the man, known from the day the %
'rse beat the record as 'St. Julien D
M H.
80 'BlatAwiek was killed by a train Of
It in California the other day. He E,
'ver tired of talking about St. Ju. lD
m when the old horse was no long =