Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-17
MARCUS DALYS
LEV|ATHAN COUP
Won 1924, 900 on 0gden's Fu-
turity Success, Including the
$4,000 Stake Money.
Winner Trained in Montana by
John Campbell, Shipped East,
and Few Knew of His Merit.
BY G. c. Pettus.


By G. c. Pettus.
While the embargo on racing in Tennes-
see will not send many additional western
stables east as early as March g. when
Benning opens, several will race here this
spring that never raced here before, among
them the Beverwyck stable Of Albany
N. Y.
At Albany the name Of Beverwyck-
been one to conjure with in all lines of
sport for nearly g. generation. The Nolan
family, of whom Michael N. Nolan was
mayor of the city, have always been liberal
patrons OF the sports. And the Beverwyck
racing stable, Beverwyck Rowing Club and
Beverick Base Ball Club have made their
presence felt in the several fields of sport
In which they have figured.
The Beyerwyck Rowing Club earned
championship honors on the upper Hudson
and at Saratoga Lake, while the Beverwyck
horses won the fourth Brooklyn handicap
with Castaway, at 80 to 1, and other we'll
Known fixtures with that horse as we'll as
Cassius, LaviniA Belle, Brown Princess and
others.
John s. Campbell, who trained the Bever-
wyck stable at that time. and is now train
ing with such great success in Austria be-
gan his turf experience as a driver of trot-
tiers and PAGERS. With the famous PAGER
Rlchball he got start, and then went over
to the runners. a little mare called Mary
anderson, giving him foothold among the
gallopers.
Then he rapidly to prominence and
for the Beverwyck stable, A. F. Wallcott
Hankins Johnson and Marcus Daily
trained many great horses. The Castaway
coup was managed entirely by Campbell as
ex-Mayor Nolan was by no means heavy
Spectator, racing his horses for the love OF
the sport.
The Elizabeth and Linden tracks in New
Jersey We're open that season and Cast
away got his early spring prep" privately
and publicly at both tracks. One race he
won at Elizabeth a couple of weeks before
the Brooklyn handicap run showed
him to be much improved horse, but,
strange to say, big field and the presence
of a moderate rider-Bunn-on CaStaways
back sent him to the post at a very false
price.
Campbell personally won some $4,000 on
the race, while Mayor Nolan and his friends
landed fair amounts, besides the $4,000
stake. Cassius also won at % to l the next
day and the Beverwyck followers cleaned
up again.
Jockey McLaughlin's Mishap.
When Campbell handled Hawkins &
Johnson's horses in 1SSs-'9 he had the most
formidable collection of iirst-class animals
in the west. At Memphis, Nashville, Louis
vile and St. Louis, in 1888, he won nearly
every stake for older horses. and then
shipped Terra Gotta east for the Suburban,
in which he was placed second to Elkwood
in that most sensational of finishes for the
great race.
Santalene. Jacobin, Robespierre, Hunt ~ess
and Little Minch were some of his Stable
of that year, and it was while
riding Terra Gotta for Campbell at Nash
vile, that the famous jockey, now owner
and trainer. James Mclaughlin, was ruled
off by Judge Jackson for placing Terra
Gotta second to his stable mate Santalene.
To iatp nf
Belle Meade, eXpostulated with by
Messrs. Fogg and Gilock. his associates,
and also by Mclaughlin, who begged him
to look at the rules before taking such
drastic action. But the general was obdu-
rate and formally addressed Mclaughlin
with: James Mclaughlin. sab, it becomes
my painful duty, sab, to rule you off this
track, sab, for preventing your horse.
Terra Gotta from winning this race, sab
That night at meeting OF the Blood
Horse Association General Jackson's action
was declared off and it was decided to
Mclaughlin the next day as
publicly as he was ruled of: General Jack
son was notified of the clubs action. and
he made the "amende honorable in the
same formal verhiage with the exception
that Ibis. painful duty (of the day before
however, became his great pleasure" etc.
to rule Mclaughlin 'on" again.
The famous jockey and the other judges
could hardly keep their faces straight while
General Jackson was ruling Mclaughlin
''on' again. And the latter was jolied on
all sides for his off again. on again ex-
periences, the only case of the sort that
ever happened in this country. But, all the
same, the great rider, if memory serves me,
never rode at Nashville after that meeting
in spite of all John Campbelrs efforts
toward that end
Campbell took Little Mnch, when that
famous sprinter's measure was six to six
and a half furlongs and gradually got the
speed marvel's staying power up to a mile
and over. And L saw him win a mile and
/ quarter stake event at Memphis in fast
lime in 1888.
That was the same day and same place
whe~ j. NJ. Brown Gather Of Galen) and
Jack" Hardy had their horse Glenhall dis
qualified after winning for being five
pounds short of weight. Browns Jockey
said it was the fault of the clerk of the
scales, and Brown, believing him, hauled
he clerk by his coat collar across the
and publicly accused the clerk of tampering
With Glenhall's weight. Then he and Hardy
urned the clerk loose, a badly scared clerk
Developer of Ogden.
But after Mayor Nolan temporarily re-
ired from racing, when, with Reed and
Spencer. he became a heavy stakeholder In
the Saratoga track, the Beverwyck stables
colors were seldom seen in public, and
Trainer Campbell went along until Marcus
Daily came into the game with Tammany,
Senator Grady and other good horses.
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portion of the DAILY stable in Montana, at
the Anaconda race course. At times it was
thirty and forty degrees below zero, but a
dry. bracing climate, and the colts and
Allies were soon Injured to the arctic tenn
perature and high altitude.
Among the yearlings was an imported
colt, Ogden, that in his trials was SO slow
that his trainer tried to sell him for $3.50
without success. By the next May, how j
ever, this yearling, then a two-year-old
had come on at great rate, and Camp
bell sent word to Marcus Daily that they
had youngster above the average in the
Imported colt Ogden.
At the June meeting at Butte Ogden made
his debut, running second to a stable COM
panion, Jim Blackburn, on three occasions
at Butte and Anaconda. This was to save
penalties for the Futurity, for which
Trainer Campbell and owner, Marcus DAILY
were already planning the biggest coup Of
the century with Ogden.
Then Ogden was entered in a race at Ana
conda against the two fastest old horses in
the northwest at five furlongs, they to con-
cede the two-year-old the scale weight.
Ogden beat them both, and later, to satisfy
Marcus DAILY that he had a great colt Og-