Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-02-23
GOOD ONES
AS PLATERS
kINLEY MACK MADE DEBUT IN
SELLING RACE
Mike Dryer Always Started Cracks
In Cheap Events--Hard to Keep
'Touts from Knowing
Good Ones


NEW YORK, Feb. ga group OF
horsemen were discussing at the Hoff-
man house yesterday the chance train
ers take with good horses In selling
races to win q good bet or SO. Roe
hampton, winner of eight or ten
straight races in his three-year-old
season and rival for Championship
honors Of such horses as Watercolor,
Blues. Commando, The Parader, Bon
hilbert and Chuctanunda, it was point
ed out, was entered to be sold for $1,000
In his first race as three-year-old.
Nor was that all. After being beaten
In his second race he was entered to be
sold at Sheepshead Bay for $l200. But
on that occasion he stepped mile In
better than 1889 and his trainer, Henry
Monck Mason, dared not run another
risk.
Cameron, son of Meddler and the
Barcaldine mare Annot Lyle, who be-
longed to the string of John Guiibert
Follansbee at the time Roehampton
was racing, ran in half a dozen selling
races. No one imagined that he was
considered a first-class horse until ne
was old and sent to the McGrathiana
stud.
Then Mason said that he liked Cam
eron better than he did Roehampton-
Mason, however, was alone In tnai
opinion. Mr.. Follansbee and the rae
ing public preferred the gallant little
chestnut by Bathampton.
Kinley Mack. the greatest horse ever
sent to the post by Islington, a full
brother to Isinglass, standing at
Henry t. Oxnards Blue Ridge stud
In Virginia, made his maiden start IN
a selling race at valuation or only
$500.
This was at Brighton Beach in the
summer of 1898. Kinley Mack won MS
maiden race with consummate ease
but none OF the smart horsemen VINO
looked him over imagined that the
scrawny, leggy cold, by an unknown
English sire, with an ugly scar on his
near shoulder, was destined to win the
BROOKLYN and Suburban handicaps OF
1900.
His owners. Eastin e. Larbie, were
as ignortant of the real merit or the
horse Peter WINNER was training TOT
them as anyone else. Tney Knew u
course. that Kinley Mack had the
speed but they did not know the KIND
They ran him in this selling race IN
order to get what he had cost back as
quickly as possible. 1t is questiou
whether Uncle Joe Eastin, who was
present at Brighton when this race was
run. would have protected Kinley Mack
for more tnan loUU OF ]loVV.
No Bid on Rice
DR. Rice, winner of the Brooklyn
handicap of 1894 and conqueror OF
Henry of Navarro, who at that time wds
supposed to be uncomfortable, started
the first time in selling race at a
valuation of $1,000. Nobody bothered
him after the finish, either.
The late Mike Dwyer had few GOOD
he not 0nlX the
first time, but many other times as
we'll, in selling races. Roseland, IN
spector B and Longstreet began their
careers as ordinary platers. DAVID
Gideon started Jack Point, the Sir
Dixon Merry Maiden horses destined
to defeat Kinley Mack, Ethelbert ana
Imp in the Brighton handicap in 1900,
in many selling races. JACK was not
bid UP the first time, but as Gideon
continued to tempt fate, Anthony l..
| Aste. who liked the horse better than
he did his owner, finally took him.
| Gideon professed to be glad to get rid
| of the Sir Dixon colt, who was Grip
pie. But he was a sore man when Jack
Point won the Brighton handicap just
| the same.
| of 1889, started the first time in sell
| ing race, and last spring John e. Mad
den entered King James in selling
race at Belmont park. Madden did not
start the Plaudit colt, however. He
was not the only man on the Eastern
circuit who realized that King James
had something in him, and he scratched
at the last minute.
| The practice of starting good horses
| in selling races has been made unpop-
ular largely by the professional tout.
| The touts OF today swarm like ries
| about the race tracks of mornings and
tell their clients, whether they be
horsemen or spectators, just what the
different horses do. The only persons
who can keep the identity of 2-year-
olds even are such horsemen as James
r. Keene and Harry Payne Whitney,
who breed their own stock.
Tcuts Follow Horses
Horsemen who recruit their Juvenile
strings at the yearling sales of the
! breeding establishments of James b.
Haggin, Clarence H. Mackay, Henry t.
Oxnard, Milton Young, Major Thomas
]. Carson, ETC., etc, are at the mercy
of these touts. The touts attend the
sales, note the marking of the horses
sold at public auction and follow the
high-priced ones to their destinations,
no matter how circuitous the trail may.
| be.
They are on mana IOr the yedriluS
| trials of these smart youngsters, and
| they follow them religiously through
| their two-year-old work. Horsemen
| accustomed in the past to win big sums
| through the exclusive possession of in
| formation of the class of smart young
sters have tried In many ways to cir
| cumvent the touts.
But their efforts have been vain.
They have no train on the public
| courses and no one has yet devised a
| scheme to keep the touts OFF public
courses. When 1t Is necessary to go to
such an extreme to ply his trade the
tout will buy a stable of runners and
take out trainers license, which
gives him access to all tracks at all
| times.
This activity of the touts is not a
| bad thing for racing when all Is said
| and one. Where half q dozen men
know of the good work Of a horse and
repeat 1t to half dozen friends each,
the information generally becomes cir
culated until the casual racegoer hears
It and wins a bet Racing cannot go
on unless the casual racegoer lands =
bet occasionally.
Suspicious