Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-03
GREEN NORRIS THREE
COLTS DISQUALIFIED
By c. C. Pettus.

The judicial ruling at San Francisco last
week whereby Hector, disqualified from
second place for fOuling the horse that mn
ished third. was not given the extreme
penalty as is customary everywhere else,
but placed third, although there were Tour
other horses in the race. has again aroused
unfavorable comment in the eastern 'uri
world at large For this precedent set by
the Oakland racing officials is SO at var
lance with the general opinion and iron
clad rule of turf equality in SUCH occur
rences that ii has never been recognized
outside of their track. and never will be In
all probability.
The Old-timer who was counting up the
chances against every one that makes a
wager on a horse race after enumerathS
the many uncertainties as to whether tie
horse is fit whether the stable money Is
on. the Jockey is trying. the weight. the
distance, a foul. possible interference, a bad
start. run out on the turn, SWerNe
I'm the hOmestretch, etc, and got up 70
twcnty-threc chances against the packer,
can now take one OF his grueSGme la!iS-
as far as Frisco is concerned. For in the
golden state hackers can eliminate lou
from the list of chances to the extent that
their morse will only be moved back one
position in case he knocks another down
Meanwhile at Los Angeles, Seattle, Butte
and Anaconda. Denver and at every racing
center of the Pacific coast and country at
IarE" save San Francisco, where the rules
of racing are observed, the O.d-time ru
that a horse adjudScd guilty of foul loses
all place in race will be as vigorous
enforced as We're the ancient laws of the
Modes and Pcrsians. And the racing public
will base It's calculations accordingly.
The veteran turfman. Green b. Morris,
who has developed some of the very best
race horses the American turf has ever
seen. has every reason TO remember this
stringent rule as TO fouls. For at Memphis
in the early eighties he had three of his
horses disqualified after they had finished
one-two-three in stake event
Success UP the Line.
In the spring and summer of 1883 Green
Morris. in partnership with ]. d. Patton
of Missouri under the racing firm name of
Morris & Patton, was nearly at the zenith
Of his fame as a successful trainer and
owner of race horses. With FcllOwplay,
Drake Carter. Rena r. and Apollo. the
kentucky Derby winner Morris came up
the line from New Orleans that spring.
scoring a succession of stake victories at
Louisville. Latonia and Chicago.
From the Windy city he shipped east
10 Saratoga, where lie defeated the two
Dwycr cracks, George Kinney and Barnes,
with Drake Garter. and then. going down
to Long Branch, captured with the same
great gelding the $4,000 Omnibus stakes
from Pierre LOrillard's imported colt Pr
zdrro and others. Then Pierre Lorillard
purchased Drake Carter from Morris for
S1J,opp, and that turfman at once started
for Kentucky to find other Ten Brock
youngsters good perhaps as Drake Car
ter and the gray tilly Rena 3.
At Nantura farm, where Drake Carter
was bred the home of the great Ten
Brock, Morris bought half a dozen Ten
Brock yearlings from Frank Harper,
among them a half brother to Freeland, a
brother to Drake Carter and relatives of
other winners. But only three of the bunch
turned out to be of any account. These
were Bersan. out of Sallie Nj: Ten Stone.
out of Lizzie Stone, and Freeman, out of
Bella Knight, the dam of Corrigans great
horse Freeland.
After Green Morris had cornered the mar
ket on Ten Brock yearlings he went back
east. and at Sheepshead that fall won
number of good races with Mediator, Eel
lowplay and Apollo. with the last named
defeating such horses as General Monroe,
Irish King. Aranza, Aella and others over
distance of ground.
With Apollo. Morris won nine races in
succession that fall. and then took his sta
bile to the Louisville and Memphis October
meetings, wintering at the latter place old
horses. yearlings and all. Montgomery Park
then. as now. was superior place 10 WIN
ter race horses.
A Colt With Horn.
Morris brought west with him a couple of
two-year-olds he had purchased from
Pierre Lorillard Glenlyon colt named
Manitoba, and Zamura, a fily by Saxon.
These he sent down to New Orleans from
Memphis and won several three-year-old
events with them, and then went back to
Memphis. where his two-year-olds by Ten
Brock We're going along In great shape.
At least three of them We're.
Bersan. the largest of the trio. was called
by the trainers the horned colt. Between
small bOnV prOtuDerance had
grown since his birth into an out-and-out
horn, a good six inches in length His
dam, Salle NJ, while carrying the unborn
colt was badly frightened in the pasture
at Nantura by a vicious cow. and her colt
bore the mark of the COW horn!
One of Bersans colts some ten or twelve
years ago. who raced at the New York
tracks. also bore the birthmark of the horn.
only in his case it was only about three
inches long the last time l saw the
yOungster at Norris Park.
Freeman and Ten Stone, Morris other
two colts by Ten Brock, while not as
large as Bersan, were youngsters above the
average in size. and the three were far and
away the most impressive looking two
year-Olds at Memphis that spring. So, when
Green Morris declared his intention of start
ing the whole three in their first engage
ment. the Fairview stake, named after
Charles Reeds famous stock farm. that
event was pretty generally conceded to the
Missourian and his Ten Brock colts.
1t was the custom at all the western rae
ing centers in those days to have silk
purses of various colors and designs. en-
broidercd with the titles of each stake and
named purse at a meeting. made beforehand
by ladies of the club and hung up over
night across the main corridor or office
floor OF a leading hotel. So at the Gayoso
Hotel Memphis. when the gay silk trophies
were strung across the office rotunda more
than one friend jokngly told Morris to Sc
lect the lady who was to receive the Fair
view trophy.
The Fairview Stakes.
The meeting opened auspiciously Cor the
man from Missouri. as he won the Mem
phis oaks with Zamora and other events
with Queen Esther. Manitoba and old Eel
Iowplay So when the Fairview day came
round the third of the meeting. the stable
was flushed with success from owners.
Jockeys and stable hands to the horses
themselves.
Col Richard Montgomery. president of
the Memphis Jockey Club. who landed on
the levee years before then as boat hand
to rise to- become cotton planter OF great
wealth was beloved by every man. woman
and child at the Bluff City. While with the
racing colony at the track he was gov