Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-06

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| feelings.
The same day that Eurus won the Sub-
| urban the Cassatt two-year-old filly Ban
| dusia by the American sire Ben d Or, won a
good race at the juicy odds of 100 to ! And
aliIs Time Owner Cassatt did not let his
| representative run loose for he sent in 4
stable cHnmssion across the board that
netted a good sum toward stable expenses
ior the year. And Trainer Higgins also
| had a bet down.
Longfellow's Greatest Son.
If The Bard, by Longfellow-B radamantc.
was not the greatest son of his great sire
then some good judges of the great horses
OF the past quarter of a century will be
mistaken. While not as large a horse az
Freeland Riley, Irish King. Leouatus or
other sons of Longfellow that could bo
named, The Bard all horse. speedy ana
game as pebble While like Thora tho
pest daughter Of Longfeilow. the Cassatt
champion was honest as the day was long
When The Bard was asked to meet Iron
nadour in the Coney Island stakes at
Sheepshead Bay. II was west PENNSYLVANIA
against east Pennsylvania. as only the two
champions started. Both horses were con-
sidered at their best, Troubadour having
won the Suburban the year Lefore uss6l
while The Bard had done all that was
asked OF him that season uSS7).
The race was at nine furlongs and as
Inc Bard was not so speedy as Trouba-
dour' but fast ''rater" Hayward sent
Cassatt's horse out from the start i'm the
attempt TO run Sam Browns champion on
his legs. And the tactics succeeded. thanks
TO a siovenly ride by Garrison on Trouba-
dour. on whom he waited too long to make
his run, and lost by half length a race
that he would have won had it been fifty
yards further on.
Naturally the race provoked a lot of dis.
IN md
for heavy stake. But Owner Cassatt by
Huggins' advice, held out. and wisely as
Iroubadour, at nine furongs. looked the
best just then, and showed that he was bv
few weeks later turning the tables on
The Bard al Long Branch.
ms was IN the Ocean stakes, mile ard
furiong. when. with Fitzpatrick mp.
Troubadour beat The Bard a length in -
hustling finish. The latter ran good race
and had the Suburban winner pretty
straight to defeat him.
The Bard Beats Troubadour.
-Four days after the Ocean stakes The
Bard and Troubadour met again in the
Monmouth cup, reduced from two miles
and half TO a mile and three-quarters.
Only the two great horses started and
Troubadour again proved the victor by half
length in drive. But The Bard ran
such plucky race and showed such game
ness that he was still a public facorite.
AT fourth meeting of the famous pair
ten days later In the Freehold stakes, a
mile and half, The Bard 'evened the
score between the two by defeating Trou-
badour. But the victory was dimmed by
the fact that Troubadour was and Il
bit lame and was started against the adj
vice of his trainer, j. w. Rogers.
big crowd was at the track. however.
drawn out by the expected meeting of the
two great horses, and President David d.
Withers of the associa ton personally re-
quested Capt. Sam Brown to start Trouba-
dour rather than disappoint the people.
With sportSmanlke spirit, but question: BILE
Judgment the Pittsburg coal king sent
Troubadour TO the post. and the horse
broke down in the race and never ran
again.
The following year The Bard set the
seal on his fame by winning the Brooklyn
handicap from big field on a slow track
The Bard was always a good "mudder,'
like his brother in blood Riley who beat
Tournament in the mud at Morris Park
when that horse was considered the best
mud lark of the decade.
A few years later came the suppression
of betting by the New Jersey legislature,
and Mr.. Cassatt and his associates at
Monmouth Park decided TO sell the mag
nifcent race course at auction and quit.
Peter De Lacy, the New York pool room
operator, was the one man who closed rae
ing in New Jersey.
Cassatt Quits Racing
The spacious Monmouth Park property,
the ground and buildings of which had
cost over 100000, was sold at auction ut
Freehold. N. j., for $4,000 Eugene Van
keuren of Oceanport, who had been the
track superintendent, was the purchaser.
He later sold the iron in the immense
grand stand for $4,000, and has since cut
the site up INTO homes and reaped a for
tune from the property.
Mr. Cassatt sold out all his race horses
except The Bard and a few mares and
started his Chesterbrook stud. Here The
Bard sired Gold Heels, by many cOnsd-
cred a better race horse Ian his sire.
Great race horses occasionally outbreed
themselves, and Gold heels certainly looked
like a case I'm point. Melton and Sysonby
were other instances where the son on the
turf outshone the star of the father.
, But the unfortunate part Of the Gold
Heels case for Owner Cassatt was that in
selling this colt of his own breeding for
few hundred dollars, he let go a better race
horse than any he ever owned. Three years
later when Gold Heels had made good.
McLeever & Co., his owners bought from
Mr.. Cassatt the entire crop of yearlings
sired by The Bard-nne in number. But
while they got couple of winners out of
the bunch, they did not discover another
Gold Heels. {. {. p