Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-11-11
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Many good judges think re was the peer

Many good judges think re was the peer
of any of them. I did not see hi mrun his
greal races at Longchamps. EPSON and
Newmarket. for | was on this side of
the ocean at the time. matter of great
regret TO me ever afterWard. But what
he did there twenty-six years ago shows
for itself and his Cambridgeshire handi-
cap success over thirty-two horses. carr
rying 126 pounds as three-yearold. stifi
stands as the best on record by a colt or
flly of his age. He cost me only S748
as a yearling: won S63 600 in English and
French stakes and my manager in Eng
land Charles W. Bathgate. put through
a double event betting coup for us, on the
Cesarewitch and Camhrdgeshire Of some
thing over 500. 600. We got as much as
bridgeshire.
But as you know said the veteran
turfman. betting has little interest tor
ME in racing, though ! did afterward win
Dutch Roller when he Won the Great
Eastern handicap at Sheepshead Bay in
1883. He was trained by Barry Blagrave
and ridden by Garrison. But in Fox
halls case the tremendous odds laid
against such a good colt. were simply
absurd. My manager. Bathgate. always
"retted he did not back him for d nil
when Foxhall was sent back here sew.
eral years later I exhibited him at the
at that fine l had not decided on going
into breeding. and when Lord Rosebery
made me offer for the horse he Went
back to England again. Strange to say,he
was never a SUCCESS at the stud.
Richard Marsh. who trained FoxhaI
for me. and Watts, who rode him in the
Cesarewitch and Camhridgeshire. always
considered this colt of mine a. one of the
greatest horses of this gene ration. Bath.
gate told me that George Fordham who
rode him at Paris when he won the
Grand Prize. expressed the same opinion
But he had thin. shelly feet and his
career was a short one. only about eight
races, during his three years on the turf.
He was certainly great horse, one Of
the best that ever wore my colors"
Gives Dangerfeld and Rowe Credit
Mr.. Keene grew enthusiastic about hi.
successful breeding enterprise at Castle
ton stud farm in Kentucky He said: AZ
give more credit TO my brother-in-law
Mai. Dangerfeld. than to myself for the
great pleasure and satisfaction that ths
Kentucky stud farm has brought me- 70,
to his judgment, IN blOOd-line purchases
of mares and that most important part o.
breeding-the mating-is due much of I'll.
pleasing success Of our home-bred coli.
and tfllies. AS to the race horses I bought
like FoXhal, Domino and Sysonby. tina;
is different. But for Commando Voter
Cap and Bells, Peter Pan. Ballot, lupe!.
man. COIN, Celt and All our other success
ful home breds. | give the ma jor and m,
very capable trainer, James Rowe all The
credit for their development"
Continuing on the subject of his stuc
farm Mr.. keene further said: "SuperfCia
observers may say that our breeding sue
cesses are largely due to chance. This +
not so. From the time the colt or filly j.
foaled UP to their weanling and yearI.n.
days. Maj. Dangerfield and his helpers ar.
unremitting in their care. Granted tia
this is SO at other stock farms also
think our methods viii challenge com
parisOn. The vearlings especially ara
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