Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-10-27
By q. G. PettuA.

By O. g. PettuA
The recent bidding up of Arimo from
81 600. his entered price, to S5,Wo.
at which figure his owner, Robert F.
Carman, retained him, marks the highest
selling race boost of the year. And as.
incidentally. Carman. after the raise.
claimed for s1,S1O Herman. owned by
Aste, the man who had bid up Arimo, the
entire proceeding furnished an object les
son on the amenities of selling races,
specially where, as in these cases, botn
parties claimed that there was no feel
ing or retaliation responsible for their
action. They just wanted the horses in
question, and took the regulation way to
that end. without waiting for the I'M
certain process of private sale.
Speaking of the boost" William Lake
and, trainer of Electioneer, said: Il
claimed one of the best horses l ever
had. Exile, from Pierre Lorllard. out of
q selling race for 81 SO. Loriilard then
boosted the Dwyer FLY Bliss from
$1,000 to 5000 the same day and got her.
as the Dryers dropped her on him
But there stands man" pointing TO b.
{. Murray, owner of the FLY BiSkra.
who owned a horse. Pontiac. that was
bid up at Jerome Park twenty years ago
from So, 500 to $15O05, the highest selling
race raise that ever took place in this
country or any other. as far as l Know.
After Pontiac, sire of Big Chief. now
racing in the New Castle cotors; haa Wp''
The SUBURBAN for Pierre Lorillard, th3
owner of Rancocas mated Pontiac's DAM
Agenonia, by Beadsman, to the French
stallion Mortemer. and named the foal,
a bay colt, Pontiac, as near as possible
after his famous half brother.
Pontiac grew into yearling Of promise.
and later into two-year-old OF merit.
| Then Owner Lorilard, with coup il
view, kept the colt under cover until ...e
cal of his two-year-old career at Jerome
Park in 1859, when he selected selling
race at three-quarters Of a mile as the
medium of his projected killing, and en-
tered Pontiac for $500. although he
would have refused an offer of four times
that amount for the colt
Lorillard's Clever Coup.
A big field OF fifteen youngsters started
n the race. and LorilIards commissioners
backed Pontiac from 10 to ] at the open
ing to to / at post time. The colt went
TO the post favorite, winning in big
gallop with Walter Onley in the saddle
landing Pierre Lorilard something over
$4,000 from the ring. The bookmakers
shat were hit the hardest were George
Houghton. the English layer. and James
Kelly of New York. The latter after tn
ace started for the judges stand to bid
up the colt.
Anticipating '.ooost." quite a crowd
collected as Pontiac was led up for sale
and when Secretary Charles Wheatley
called for an advance on $500 Kelly bid
5000 at one jump, and on James O'Neill
Lorllard's agent, protecting the colt with
a S. bid. Kelly by thousand-dollar bids
raised the colt to $4,000. Then O'Neill
bid S. and a new bidder dropped in.
John e. Mcdonald. who was killed last
year in the railway disaster abroad. bid
SlO,5cO for the Dryers, who had finished
second with one Of their youngsters.
ONetll had been authorized by Lorillard
to protect the colt and is the master of
Rancocas and a friend, Skipwith Gordon.
stood within six feet of him. and Loril-
lard made no sign. ONeill bid the IS nee
essarv to retain the colt
Then Mcdonald carried Pontiac along
by $500 bids to $4,000 and az ONeill bid
SIS COS Mcdonald. amid quite a decided
demonstration from the crowd wake
awav And sold to the owner for $15.-
COS" was Secretary Wheatley's announce
nont as he entered the sale on his book.
The attendant then started to lead Pom
tico away, but the end was not yet.
Pierre Lorillard. with face more than
usually flushed. STROBE up to Secretary
Wheatley and the judges and said: Cen
tlenen. Mr.. O'Neill exceeded his author
amount At $1,000 called to O'Neill to
let the colt 70. but he did not appear to
hear me and kept right on. Under the
circumstances l ask you to have the colt
sold over again.
Winner Bid Up to $4,000.
Right at Lorillard's elbow was James
O'Neiu. who. after Pontico's owner had
made his plea for new sale, went to
the Judges and fatty contradlcted the
master of Rancocas. He said that the
~
(O'NeilD ell the time and could have
reached him in second had he been SO
disposed. He declared that he had told
him to protect the colt and If he called
to him at 81. 900 to 'let the colt go" he had
not heard him.
Bv this time the crowd around the
Judges stand had increased to several
thousand persons. P. H. Dwyer, who
stood to profit Sc go 30 by the run-up,
though running second. now went before
the judges and protested against another
sale as the colt had been bid In by Lor-
illard's authorized agent. Presiding Judg>
D. D. Withers however. chewing his
usual unllghted cigar. gave Mr.. Dwyer
scant consideration. and saying. Mr..
Dwyer we are deciding this matter, and
no one else" dismissed the Brooklyn
turfman in a hurry.
Finally. after further consultation be-
tween Judges Withers. Monson and Pur-
dy and Secretary Wheatley, Il was de-
cided 70 allow Lorllard's plea and have
the colt sold over again Pontico was
again brought up to the stand and Of
fared at the entered price. 1880. J. E.
Mcdonald. for the Dryers. was the only
bidder. Bv $500 bids he carried the colt
along, Skipwith Gordon protecting him
for Lorilard.
This time Mcdonald bid Pontiac up to
81 500 and Gordon bid S7.505 for his owner
Believing that the colt would be dropped
on him If he went much higher. Mcdonald
stopped. Lorillard got his colt back again
by paying s5.c05. the difference between
his entered price Of 2,50o and the $7.5O5
realized at the second sale.
OF the s5.OO5 surplus ttle Dryers who
ran second. got 81. 500. 80 and the Jockey
Club the same amount-a snns7t ona r {
ord in selling race amenities. and incidents
never equaled before or since. although
Pierre LorIllard had other "tilts" in this
class of races.
Saratoga's Sensr tional Killing.
The same summer as the Pontiac affair
Lorillard at Saratoga made another heavy
coup with a selling race as the medium
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