The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-01-24
Horsemen Predict Him The 1907
Winner on The Turf
DESERVES PLACE WITH AAMBuRe
WAS THE MOST PROMISING OF
ALL THE TWO YEAR OlOS
LAST SEASON.

! In big grassy paddock al ham
burg Place. in Fayette county. KY.
chestnut colt romps and plays every
day. This fellow, turfmen predict,
will be the champion three-year-o OF
the season. To see him scamper about
and kick up his heels not one in every
hundred race-goers who saw him
sweep past his opponents with mighty,
space devouring stride, last year. would
recognize in him Salvidere. the peerless
-year-old racehorse.
Salvidere has improved in looks as
much as he has in weight. and that
amounts to about two hundred
pounds. He has filled out and let down
to remarkable degree. Where former
| ly he was light in the barrel and
TANKS" he is now fat and rounded
He is now a horse of great power
and scope. Always deep through the
heart-which gave him his wonderful
endurance-he has developed enormous
quarters and massive muscles. These
will give him the leverage to send him
swiftly along over all kinds of tracks
This handsome gelding is living ex
emplification of the uncertainty of the
worth of young thoroughbreds and Of
horse racing in general AS the Off
spring of Belvidere and Sallie McClel-
land he entered the turf world with
serious handicap. His dam had been
such failure at the stud that her
owner, the late Capt. S. c. Brown, de-
clined to enter her as one of the ma
irons worthy of nomination in the
Futurity and he would have turned
her loose as worthless except that a
friend prevailed on him to mate her to
Belvidere
Salvidere was the result of this union
He was an exceedingly leggy youngster
and rather light of frame. AS year.
ling he did not fill out much. He was
more or less a disappointment in looks.
In his early trials he failed to show
any great speed. and as he developed
'gummy" ankles he was more of an
annoyance to Robert Tucker. his train
er, than prize package.
In spite of the drawbacks of his
birth and his physical ailments he i'm
Madden. as being horse of high
quality.
In his maiden effort Salvidere closed
up six lengths in the run through the
short stretch at Brighton on Foun-
tainblue. This performance struck
Madden as being extraordinary, and
when the gelding was offered for sale
at public auction he bought him for
$1,000.
Under his care and attention the
youngster never suffered defeat, and
won nearly $4,000.
! The great trainer detected Salvidere's
weak points-his ankles and feet-and
with a set of aluminium plates he re-
lieved much of the pain and pressure
on the hOof.
By his success with this horse Mad
den proved clearly that the term ap-
piled to him. 1.-The Wizard" is appro-
pirate.
Salvidere has been entered in the
suburban and Brighton handicaps
This shows that both Madden and his
partner, T. Hitchcock, Jr, are not
afraid to match him with the best OF
the old horses. Artful and Burgomaster.
Like them, he will have to carry the
top weights for horses of his age. If
he beats these two great horses he
will accomplish a task that will clearly
entitle him to be ranked as Charley
Patterson thinks he should be, with
Hamburg.