The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-01-19
RIGGING IN ENGLAND
AND THE MIDWEST

Racing In England was very
Racing III England was also very
prosperous this year, though the pres
ent British government does not look
on the sport, or rather tho speculation
| II is bound to provoke, with a very
favorable eye, SO there may be rocks
lal,cad IL the Campbell Zimmerman
cabinet remains In power.
Last season the cognoscenti consid-
cred tho two year-olds, as represented
by Polar Star, Sieve Gallon, and Gal
vnni, as an exceptionally brilliant lot,
lit they proved utterly wrong. as
lSlieve GALLON, the best two-year-ol1
performer, failed to develop staying
nowers. so. after an easy victory In
the Two Thousand Guineas over mile
course he was easily beaten for the
Eerby by the Anglo-Amcricun colt Or
/ by, whose two-year-old record was MI
willie the pair were separated by the
icuriously named Woolwinder consid-
cred only third rater during his ju-
venile career. Had Orby not started as
three-ycar-old prior to the Derby lie
would probably have remained an ex-
treme outsider In the future betting,
but victory for a three-ycar-old.
stake at Liverpool during the first
week of the season called attention to
ms merits, although on that occasion
nc was receiving weight from all the
other starters and the class was mod
crate In consequence lie was not con-
s.dered Derby possibility TIL he
proved he could stay BY n meritorious
victory in Ireland. AS the bulk OF tho
Investments OF the future event spec
U lators are usually made on the best
two-year-old performers, the victory
,cIE great English stake Of recent
In the market is never
very popular. while Mr.. Croker has
NOT endeavored to ingratiate himself
with influential British owners so fine
victory OF his Yale blue colors for the
sreatest race Of the season was not
'efy enthusiastically received. though
-ile case was entirely different when
otby took the Irish Derby two weeks
atcr. ~ "eeAs
unfortunately Mr.. Croker elected 70 |
run his colt at Liverpool. the scene
- ms initial triumph. The course t
, 1.l,l is always hard, especially SO IN
euly, SO Orby's efforts to win the ST.
~, ,e se STAKES over 1t resulted in his |
downfall, and lie returned to Ireland
with a badly bowed tendon. ample ex-,
cuse for his defeat. His injury is so
serious that 1t is doubtful whether lie
can ever again show his true form.
1t any rate he could not be prepared |
or the st. Leger, which in consequence
tell to Woolwinder. who had finished I
second to him for the Derby. This. Of
course. enhanced the form of the
sroker colt. SO lie should prove in
valuable in domestic life, as he is by
o!monde,s best son, Orme, the sire
of Ewing Fox. willie his dam, Amer
can bred Rhoda b., being by Hanover.
son of Hindoo and Bourbon Belle, by
Bonnie Scotland, represents our best
strains of American blood on the sire's
'ide while her dam. Margerine, was
by the strictly American bred Algerine
out of Songstress by Doncastes, great
srandsire of Orme. Thus Orby COM
bines the best blood OF two CONT
nents, SO should be quite as valuable
for stud purposes as his illustrlous rel
alive. Flying Fox. His name is, of
course. derived from that Of his sire
and dam combined. but it would have
fitted Derby winner better IL the
final and apparently unnecessary let
ter had been omitted. Mr.. Croker has
a very promising half sister to his
Derby winner in Rhodora, who, next
to Lesbia, is considered the best two
year-old of the past English season.
Lesbia full sister to the famous filly
Flair by ST. Frusquin-Glare, is de-
scribed as being on the small side, SO
the slashing Rhodora may4next sea-
son prove her SUPERIOR The only colt
likely to beat these flying fillies next
year is Vamose, a full brother to Fly.
ing FOX.
The success of the Yale blue jacket
marked the third victory of an Amer
lean owner for the English Derby. The
initial success, that Of Iroquois in
1881, was. Of course, the most salts
factory one, as the coltiswas bred on
this side and owned by Pierre Loril-
lard, whose cherry and black colors
We're popular on both sides of the At
lantic. The success Of Mr., Whitney
was not so pleasing, as lie did not event
own the English bred colt which car
ried his Elton blue Jacket to victory,
FOR he only leased Volodyovski from
Lady MeuX during his racing career.
The third success reads better, rs al
though the sire OF Orby was English !,
and the colt was foaled at his owners
English estate near Letcombe Regis,
his dam was Of pure American paren-
tage, and he was bred and owned by
an American who had spent such vast |
sums for yearlings in his adopted coun-
try that none should have grumbled
when a colt OF his own raising proved
very ranidlv IN this line of snort forI