Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-04-07
BURROWS JACK FROST
N P|ML|CO COUP
How the Tennessee Owner Won
the Bowie Stakes, Although
His Horse Had to Race
Twelve Miles.
BY G. c. Pettus.

By c. C. PettuA
Trainer Frank Regain, just returned from
California said at Benning that the recent
four-miie race there between Los Angeleno,
Mamie Algol. Doctor Lego and others
aroused so much enthusiasm that a renewal
Of the race for a g. SEQ purse will be decided
at Oakland on Saturday next, the 18th. j.
B. Brady, owner of Accountant and Oiseau.
was such large winner over the race that
he said he would have a fourmile horse
himself in California next winter.
The entries for the renewal of Saturday
and the weights are Doctor Leggo, 113: Los
Angeleno Ii; Mamie Algol. los; Benvolio.
100; CRATER, 1903; Infiammable 102. and
Huston. 80.
Los Angeleno, the victor in the original
race two weeks ago. has most romantic
history. Bred by Lucky Baldwin. he is
a seven-year-old gelding by Rey Ell Santa
Anita winner of the American Derby at
Chicago out of the famous mare Los An
geles by Glenelg-La Polka.
Bred to go a distance, Los Angeleno as
a two and three-year- old was of no account
and Baldwin's trainer sold him to his pres
ent owner for $50. The horse had bony
enlargement on his ankle and his new own
err cut 1t off, 1t Is said. with hammer and
chisel, without consulting veterinarian.
Anyway the heroic treatment was a success
| and Los Angeleno raced on the Texas cir
cult and at New Orleans, winning several
races.
| This past winter the old gelding seems to
have renewed his youth and when he ran
and won q two-mile race at Ascot Park in
3:271s, within few miles of the birthplace
| that had cast him off, Lucky Baldwin,
| his breeder, threw up both hands and ex-
| claimed, There is a horse from the best
| blood on my farm. Yet gave him away,
| L. nv,,t1a
| Torrance better than any horse l ever
| owned"
! Los Angeleno's Thornton Stakes in 727
! for the four miles In the mud mark the
| best race at the distance in the mud ever
! run. He only beat Mamie Algo a nose.
| with Doctor Leggo, whO-was the pacemaker
| for three miles and half, good third,
| showing that our race horses of today, with
| very little preparation, can be trained TO
| stay long distances and show even better
| races than the fourmilers Of quarter OF
| a century ago. And the public demands a
| return to such races on eastern courses.
The Bowie Stakes.
| In old Pimlico days, when the Bowie
| stakes four-mile heats were annual
| affair, each renewal of this famous event
drew turfmen and racegoers from all over
| the county. Baltimore was crowded and
| jammed with visitors, and that time-hon-
| ored old hosiery, the Eutaw house, was
| the scene of pool-selling each night before
the races.
Probably one of the most hotly contested
races for the Bowie was that won by Jack
| Frost, in which that horse had to run three
heats, twelve miles, before it was decided
| and over slow track at that-a race that
| earned his owner, a Nashville bookmaker,
a small fortune and laid the foundation for
greater one later.
The October meeting Of 1871 at Baltimore
was a noteworthy one. The larger stables
fro al
and the Monumental city was oxerfowing
with. the racing fever. Day after day the
thousands went out to Pimlico by rail or
the road through beautiful Druid Hill Park,
never SO picturesque as In the early
autumn.
Lewis & Co.'S fleet flly, Vandalite, by
Vandal, won the rich Dixie stakes from
fourteen other three year-olds. And the
great filly repeated by also capturing the
Breckenridge both over two-mile courses.
| Hugh Gaffney's Culpepper won the Freak
| ness stake and J. F. Chamberlin,s Carhna
| the Chesapeake stake, the Central stake
going to Milton Sanford's Firework.
The greatest day of the meeting in point
| Of public interest, was the last, when the
| Bowie stakes four-mile heat was to pc run.
| Named after Ex-Governor Oden Bowie, the
noted breeder and turfman. this event was
| instituted In 1870.
In that year August Belmonts imported
horse, Genelg by Citadel Babta, won in
| straight heats from four others in 7.47, LA
| over a heavy track. In 1871 and 1872 Nc
| Daniel Il Co won the race with Harry
| Bassett and Tubman, and in 1873 j. F.
Chamberlins True Blue was the victor.
For the renewal of 1874 five horses
| started: A. B. Lewis & Co.'S Bessie Lee.
| a ive-year-old mare, by Hunters LeXing-
ton; ]. Donohues Botany Bay, four-year-
| old horse by Abstraction; E. A. Clabaughs
| Piccolo, four years, by Concord; J. Coffee
Nettie Norton, four years. by bennington,
| and A. M Burtons Jack Frost, five years,
| by Jack Malone.
Four-Mile Heats.
OF these none had yet negotiated such
a trying journey heats of four miles.
But Nettie Norton had won dash race
at the distance, and each Of the others had
won at two-mile heats, while Bessie Lee
| had negotiated three miles successfully.
Auction pools at the Eutaw House over
| night favored Nettie Norton; John Coffees
good mare sold for $1,000, Bessie Lee 500.
| Botany Bay $3.50. Jack Frost $500. and
Piccolo $500. At these rates Doctor" I'm
derWoOd took in close to $4,000 at the
| evening selling.
At the track the next day a change in the
rating occurred, owing to rain overnight
| that made it heavy in spots, although it
dried up we'll before the race. Nettie Nor
| ton was still the choice but Jack Frost
was made second choice, owing to his we'll
known ability in mud
| By Jack Malone-Kitty Puryear, by AL
| bion, &C.. Jack Frost was owned by one of
| the most original characters the American
| turf ever developed. Bookmaker Alfred M
! Burton of Nashville. Tenn A volume
| could be written of his peculiarities after
| he began booking several years after this
| race and many racegOers of today will re-
member Burton and his oddities
| But when he owned Jack Frost there was
| no bookmaking. and Burton was then a
| turfman and breeder on a small scale.
| When he brought Jack Frost to Baltimore
| the horse had won such a fast twO-mile
| race at Cleveland that his owner had every
| confidence in winning the Bowie stakes,
More so after the rain came.
!. At the auction pools Burton bought pool
! after pool on his horse, and when the SELL
! Ing drew to a close made him favorte
| over Nettie Norton. Bessie Lee was also
backed with more confidence after the
| rain while Botany Bay and PiccOlo
j had support at large odds.
| Botany Bay was the horse that August
Belmont, ST.. virtually gave to Joseph Dono-
| hue. because that old turf veteran loaned
| his son. Perry Belmont, q horse of his
| Donohues) to ride in gentlemans race
| at Jerome Park, which the younger Bel
| mont won cleverly.
| For Jack Frost Owner Burton had Sc
cured Simms, one of the most successful
| Jockeys of that day, while Huston was on
| Bessie Lee, Fisher on Piccolo. Donohue on
| Nyott;o Norfop opd Ra rher on ROtapy Raw