Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-09
PREPARING FOR
THE NEXT SEASON
SaNidere Will Be Made Ready
in the South for a Hot
Campaign.
No Doubt That He Will Be En-
tered in the Four Big
Handicaps.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. December g.
Thousands of those metropolitan racegoers
who went into fits of rapture at the spec
tacle which Salvidere made Of his enpo-
nents when he won the Junior Cham pion
stake at Gravesend September % learned
with amazement how the game gelding has
been forced to occupy quarters in a livery
stable in Little Rock because Of the unfit
condition of the stabling at that course.
Salvidere Is valued by his owners. Thomas
Hitchcock. jr., and John E. Madden. at
100000. He is insured at large figure
1t Is said, $50. 0Oo-upon which premium
of 8 per Gent Is paid. making an addi-
tional 5000 to the. cost of wintering the
gelding and gradually getting him ready
for the big stakes to be run early in 1907.
There is not a doubt that he will be en-
tered in all four of the big handicaps. be-
ginning with the Metropolitan and ending
Brooklyn and the Suburban, will be worth
about $4,000 to the winner. 1t is. of course.
unlikely that Salvidere any other named
horse will win all four of these races. but
should he win one two of them the
value of either would be about $4,000.
Add to this his engagements In the regular
three-year-old stakes to be run on the big
tracks In 1907, and it can easily be seen
that, given a good wintering and ordinary
luck. this son of Belvidere Is worth at least
$50 600 on account OF his engagements alone.
But after his racing career ends the future
Of Salvidere will ultimately be exactly that
of the cab horses whose company he is
now enjoying Unfortunately for the good
of the turf, Salvidere is a geding, and.
like thousands of other good racers, his
merits will not be transmitted to posterity.
This will also be the destiny of Roseben,
also gelding.
The fact that John Madden sent Salvi-
dere so far south as Little Rock instead
of wintering him at either Aiken, s. c.. or
Lexington, or at the metropolitan tracks.
makes it appear as II he had planned an
going to the north from the southwest has
the northern horses at a great disadvan-
tage. This was one reason why Boundless
won the Worlds Fair Derby at Chicago in
1893
Carrying out his plans Madden viii ship
Salvidere to Belmont Park in April. and
there make ready for the Metropolitan
handicap. Being a gelding, Salvidere will
be easier to fit than If lie were an entire
horse. Taking Sysonby as line, any good
Metropolitan. Sysonby did net win. but he
was the best horse. and his dead heat with
Race King, conceding him much weight,
was a great performance.
After the Metropolitan the big three
year-old stakes, such as the Withers and
Belmont, will engage Madden's attention.
There Is much less competition in the
three-year-old stakes than for the valuable
handicaps, and practical horsemen do not
fear to run with three-year-olds in the
former. Notwithstanding it means carrying
much higher weight.
After Belmont Park will come the Brook
lyn handicap, the Suburban and the Brigh-
ton. Long before July comes around the
best eastern stables will be ready. but their
great trouble will be that Salvidere and
Madden's four-year-old. The Quail, will
both have an advantage over the Keene.
Whitney, Haggin and Duryea stables.