Los Angeles herald., 1907-07-13
KEENE TR|UMPHS
WITH HOME BREEDS
SEASONS BIG WINNERS COME
FROM CASTLETON
In First Third of Metropolitan Rae
ina Season Turfman's Horses
Connect With Most of
Large Purses
Special to The Herald

Special to The Herald.
NEW YORK, July Fin the first
third of the metropolitan racing season
of 1907 the great stable of James H.
Keene has earned more than the Same
establishment did last year, when MI.
Keene led the winning list of the Amer
lean turf. Mr.. Keenes stable has led
the winning list so many times that 1t
is only an ordinary happening for the
establishment to hold first place, but
the record achieved in the eleven weeks
of the present season approaches the
marvellous What the stable may 90 III
the twenty weeks of racing left to New
York is problematic, but there seems
every probability that it will set new
winning record for the American turf
The success of the Keene stable STANDS
out the more brilliantly for the fact that
the horses which have won the great
| total now to the credit of the establish
Lment are representative of Mr.. keene 5
4 own breeding establishment, for or all
the winners that have carried the Wnlte
| with blue spots this season but single
one represents a sire standing elsewhere
| than Mr.. Keenes Castleton stud. Inc
exception is Frizette, by Hamburg
Ondulee which has contributed but
modest share of the enormous total OF
! the stables winnings Every other WIN
| ner of the big Keene stable owns cas-
tleton as it's birthplace, and all are by
Mr. Keenes own stations, with the
now dead Commando as the first, fol-
lowed by Disguise, Voter, Kingston and
Ben Brush.
Keene's Good Judgment
In the earlier years of his great turf
triumphs Mr.. Keene accomplished his
greatest, winnings with horses that dlu
credit to his judgment of horses more
than to his skill as breeder, for ne
bought Domino, the greatest winner of
the turf, as yearling, and in somewhat
similar style obtained Sysonby, by the
purchase of his dam, which had been
bred to Melton in England by the late
Marcus DAILY, the foal thus coming to
Mr.. Keene, though the credit for breed
ing Sysonby belongs to Mr.. DAILY. |
Domino is at the head of the list OF
great American winners, with total of
$193550 earned in three years on the
turf, while Sysonby comes second with
a total of $184, 438 earned in two years on
the turf, both horses racing throughout
their careers in the colors of Mr.. Keene.
The American turf owes Mr.. Keene |
for the third horse on the list, Kingston,
with $142,562, earned in eight years OF
racing, though Kingston always raced
in other interests, first for e. V. Sned-
eker and next for the Dwyer brothers,
and importer of Kapanga, sire and
dam of the famous brown horse, made
Kingston possible 1t is singular
tribute to the thoughtful judgment of
Mr.. Keene that his first importations of
English mares brought results which
are potent in the racing of today, nearly
thirty years after the first lot of mares
was brought to America, for of that
first lot, numbering less than a dozen,
Authoress produced Bankrupt and De-
faulter, Piccadilly produced Pickpocket |
and other winners, Torchlight produced |
Lamplighter, and Kapanga, in addition
to the great Kingston and long list of |
other winners, has winning grand |
daughter of the present season in Suf- |
frage daughter of Kingston's sister, |
QueenSton.
Mr. Keene's connection with racing
has been practically continuous since |
his entrance upon the eastern turf with |
the purchase of Spendthrift in 1879, his
establishment growing and improving |
steadily with the years, until, with Mr.. |
Keene as the head of the entire estab- |
lishment, Major Foxhall Daingerfield,
his brother-in-law, directing the breed |
ing farm at Castleton, and James Rowe
as trainer and executive, the Keene |
stable Is recognized as the first of the |
American turf. Mr.. Keene's aids In
the conduct of the stable and breeding
farm are specialists of the highest order. |
With Major Daingerfield the breeding
of race horses is labor of love, and in
his hands breeding comes as near being |
an exact science as the direction of the
natural laws of heredity in reproduction
ever have come.
James Rowe, trainer now, has been a
successful man in every undertaking of
his life, as jockey, breeder and starter
of races, and in business matters of
diverse kinds. He was one of the best
starters that the eastern race courses
ever had. but because of preference he
returned to training horses, first for the
late Col w. p. Thompson, and next for
Mr. Keene. Before he became starter,
however, Trainer Rowe had led the win
ming list for other owners, notably for
the late August Belmont for whom he
trained in that turfman's most success
full year, 1890, when, with Potomac and
Washer, he ran first and second in the
Futurity and won many great stakes
with Her Highness, Fides, La Tosca,
Raceland, Prince Royal and other
horses.
No single hockey has had apty Ione,