Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-08-25

that had ever gone to tie post for an Amer
lean cup race and Auctloneer Bob" Under
wood sold pools that evening aggregating
close TO 800. 600.
3 per cent commission and the five-dollar
mutuels 5 per cent goodly revenues. but
hardly equal to the returns received from
boOkmaking.
Prominent IN the gathering at the over
night selling on the cup We're the four
members of the Mcdaniel confederacy-Col.
David Mcdaniel A s. Gage, ]. Il. Brew
ster and II. O. Bernard. For the three
previous years-1s72. 1873 and 1s74-the con-
federacy horses had won the Saratoga cup,
well as other great races with Harry
Bassett, Joe Daniels. Sprngbok. Katie
Pease, Hubbard Tubman, Madge and
others. and the firm was at the zenith
of it's fame in the turf world.
Col David Mcdaniel father of the three
David Gather of the young Jockey McDan-
ieD had made his turf start a decade be-
fore with the stout little horse Blackbird
And his three partners had unlimited con-
fldence in his judgment as TO tho condition
of their horses. Consequently, when he
told them that this particular race would
be the fourth Saratoga cup to their credit
they invested thousands on their horse
Springbok. Brewster doing the buying or
the auction pools.
Milton II. Sauford's horse Preakness was
also the subject of heavy support. His
owner who was so deaf the last years Of
his life that he always had an ear trumpet
slung over his shoulder, had landed a 500
900 coup in the Saratoga cup Of 1865 with
his horse Lancaster. And as he considered
that PreaknesS was as good as Lancaster,
if not better, he started in to make an even
larger winning on Prcakness, his book
keeper buying nearly every auction pool
sold on PreakneSs
Grinstead's defeat of Sprlngbok and or
tipa at the shorter distance named found
him almost as many hackers as any or
them. Coupled with Rutherford, his stable
V,fyNfl Ia haI To-
pace. The other three starters, Aaron rem
ntngton. Olitipa and Wilddle, were at
longer odds in the pools
Auction pools on the great race sold
Sprlngbok for So 900; Puryear entry Grin
stead and Rutherford $l,SS; Preakness,
81 800; Pennington, $50; feld tohtpd ana
Wldidle), $50 And the next afternoon at
the track Springbok was an even stronger
favoritc, while Prcakness supplautcd Grin
stead as second choice-fully 10000 going
into the auctions on the race and fully Soo,-
900 more in the s. mutucls.
Prcakness and Sprlngbok were the giants
of the party as to looks each being weight
carriers of proven ability and for olg
horses were as quick as cats on their ieet
at the post. Aaron Pennington in MS pre-
Nminary warmed up the best OF the party,
and Price McGrath told all his friends that
the brown horse would run "A better race
than he had shown three weeks before
when he defeated Ballankeel and Wlldidle
IN the Monmouth cup Col Tom FuTystr
said Grinstead would 'gallop them All mo
the ground after Rutherford had got done
setting the pace" and his many New Jer-
sey friends backed his faith with their dol
lars.
More money depended upon this contest
than any previous cup race In this coun-
try. And the post parade OF the seven
starters was an ovation as they filed past
the applauding thousands The race that
followed will never be forgotten by those
who Witnessed 1t, a struggle of turf lltaIs,
each fast as the wind, ana the embodimcnt
Of all that constitutes pluck and gamenes5
in the brute creation