Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-11-17
Bv c. c. Pettus.

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The recent purchase of the noted dis
lance performer Ironisdes by J. w. Colt
and that gentleman's expressed intention
to start this late inmate of the Whitney
stable in the long races at Bennlng TINS
month will invest the Washington cup
and Maximum stakes with just that much
additional interest. For the big son Oh
Meddler has shown on more than one &C.
casion this season that he can go route
in first-class company, and that ne is up
to any reasonable weight. But he mas one
fault He will not set any sort of pace
in>front: in short, he is loafer ana neeos
to be handled and ridden accordingly
Pointing to Ironsides, after he mad
beaten Salvedere for the place ana
had stretched Nealon's neck to deteat nun
two miles and a quarter. Henry MCDANIEL
trainer of the Gerst stable, said: RE re-
minds me of horse my daddy useu 10
own, Blackbird, who was also a ioa il.
Would not race in front and had iosl
races with him through that drawback
where he was long way the pest Iol Sc
But nv old father finally did make Black
bird toe the mark. How he did II rehects
credit on dads ingenuity and is story by
Itself.
Col David Mcdaniel. beginning his turf
career in the ffties, raced with more or
less success at the famous old y" ashlIs
ton track. Charleston. and also at the al
most equally tlme-nonoieu oioo"A"Sn
course in Virginia.
1t was. not until the revival or nortnefn
racing in the cary sixties however, ina.
the colonel came north to paterson anu
Philadelphia with his horses Along WIN
him came young lad whom ne haa
picked up at a cigar stand in richmond
Va jimmy" the only name ne KiS"
him by until the stable came north. linen
the colonel looked up the boys parents
and found out that their name was Rowe.
A Loafng Race Horse.
The cigar lad, however, took to riding
horses as duck does to the water AL
though young Jimmy weighed only 90
pounds when the old colonel first put MIN
Oh the back of husky two-year-oid. he
stuck to the colt like leech, although
the youngster tried almost every broncho
..stunt" to get rid of him. Heavy head d
horses were at first more than handiul
for the future great jockey ana trainer.
But by degrees. as his wrist power ue
We oped Young Rowe turned more than
one bull-headed brute in the McDanlei
sta BILE.
Thus did the present successful trainer
of the Keene stable begin his apprentice
peculiar facility for keeping down his
weight. When first saw Rowe a few
years later at Jerome Park In $50 ne
could ride then as low as 81 pounds, ms
weight when he rode and won the pest
four-mile race ever run over that famous
old track On McDanel's Add Ell Hoover,
"a three-year-od. he defeated the great
horse Helmbold and cleverly outrode oio
"Bilr' Hayward, who was Tor years INC
dean of our American Jockeys .
When Blackbird was the star OF the NC
Daniel stable young RoWes atterwaio
great reputation as jockey had yer 10 De
developed. Blackbird, an undersized black
horse by imported Alblon-fahoia' was
ridden in most Of his races by the well,
known jockey fitzpatrick. and IT took an
of that noted riders skill and strength
to get out of the horse what there was IN
him. For while not sulker ne was d
pronounced loafer and would not 20 GU ~
in front and set the pace he was capable
of. Whip and spur had no erect on MN
Wren the Mcdaniel stable reached
Philadelphia the trainer. Andy Bell was
engaged and from the first he had his
hands full with Blackbird. The black
horse would not work unless ne 1elt axe
it, and in his races he would not 30 D oul
In front and set any sort OF pace. ne
Jockeys of his opponents knowing llis ~
tions would loaf also and turn long races
into sprints.
Racing in the Sixties.
After Paterson closed it's revival meeting
of 1863 Suffolk Park race course at MIA
delnhia was the mecca of the racing clans.
Some of the stables at the New Jersey
course shipped to ST. Louis. but the ma
iority of them, bag and baggage. went
over to the Quaker city meeting For
trotting track Suffolk Park was better
adapted to the gallopers than Point
Rreeze as the going was more SprlngE
and elastic so that few horses went me,
as so often heppans at race meetings on
trotting tracks.
The Continental Hotel stakes three-mile
heats, with 81. 500 added, was the event
of Suffolk Parks second day. and found
the best horses at the track pointed for
it. Among the entries was the Canadian
gray horse Thunder. Blackhird and the
| heroine and hero of Centreville's great
| four-mle race - Idlewild and Jerome
Edgar.
These horses were then the best in the
country over long distances. and public
interest was we'll worked up over the
outcome of the contest. At the Cont
mental Hotel the night before the race
| fully thousand persons gathered at the
pool selling on the race. Auctloneer
| Underwood and his clerk. James Nc
| Gowan. were made the custodians OF
| fully $4,000 before the selling closed
| In view of her recent great form Idle
uild sold the choice at $1,000 jerome
| Edgar $40 Thunder $500 and Blachbrd
! S125. Capt. Moore, owner of ldlewild. was
not in town. but was expected 10 reach
the track from ST. Louis the next morning.
/ She had not being doing any too well.
I however. since her last race, and Tim
| Robbins. her trainer, said that If Capt.
/ Moore should for any reason meet with
| DELAY on his return from ST. Louis he
! would not start the great mare The
| knowledge of this brought more support
| TO the others Jerome Edgar espec ally
being strongly backed, John NJ. Clay and